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This was a public service group that was around in the mid 'to late
90s and was responsible for getting a lot of jammers off the air, such as the guy who called himself "PorkButt" and some of his other friends who played things like The PorkButt Song over the top of rescue nets. They may think that their services are no longer needed now that the airwaves are clearer, but you can still find a lot of areas on 75m that could use the attention of either the FCC or the Stumpjumpers - I don't care which. Let's clean up the area between 3800 and 3900. Most of you know what I mean. |
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![]() wrote in message oups.com... This was a public service group that was around in the mid 'to late 90s and was responsible for getting a lot of jammers off the air, such as the guy who called himself "PorkButt" and some of his other friends who played things like The PorkButt Song over the top of rescue nets. They may think that their services are no longer needed now that the airwaves are clearer, but you can still find a lot of areas on 75m that could use the attention of either the FCC or the Stumpjumpers - I don't care which. Let's clean up the area between 3800 and 3900. Most of you know what I mean. PorkButt A.K.A. WB2OTK Rich , mostly hung out on 3.901 and had a running feud with "Big Al" John Abernethy K4OKA who hung out on 3.898 . PorkButt was not put off the air by the "Stumpjumpers" . See https://www.arrl.org/news/stories/1999/07/28/1/?nc=1 "PorkButt" and his friends didn't play things like The PorkButt Song . The PorkButt Song was played by jammers that didn't like WB2OTK Rich A.K.A. "PorkButt". FYI , Rich had an on the air "club" of hams called "The Amateur Radio Good Fellas" I held/hold a member # . BTW , If anyone still has a copy of the porkButt song . I would like a copy for nostalgic reasons. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See http://www.wr6wr.com/newSite/article...longbeach.html Riley Hollingsworth, K4ZDH, the legal advisor for FCC enforcement gave an outstanding presentation on Amateur Radio enforcement. "Updates on some of the actions over the last year - Glen Baxter, K1MAN, of Belgrade Lakes, Maine is off the air. The case continues because we tried to inspect his station in May during the Dayton Hamvention. His station was broadcasting, but without a control operator. WB2OTK out of Easly, South Carolina has had his license canceled; John Abernethy, K4OKA, in North Carolina is under a six-month suspension. We issued several warnings to nets. There are several other nets under scrutiny for monopolizing or attempting to monopolize certain frequencies. We've dismissed half a dozen applications due to examination discrepancies and we have about six sessions under scrutiny now. About 15 VEs have been disqualified. "I mention these names, Glen Baxter, John Abernethy and Rich Whitten because when we polled the first three or four hundred messages that we got complaining about the Amateur Radio service and getting information to us since last October about what needs to be done. We found that 70-80% of the problems were related to a half-dozen to dozen situations in the country. And we realized then that the Amateur Radio service was far from hopeless. It would have been a different picture if the complaints had been across the board complaining about everything you could imagine going on on the amateur bands. Then it would have looked like too expensive a problem from a staff and resource problem to attack it. But it seemed that within certain areas of the country, and on certain frequencies, is where the problems were concentrated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ace - WH2T |
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