Funny, I hear a lot more CB radio stories like that than ham ones.
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Subject: Re: confrontation on the air? what do you all think about this
topic?
> And if that does not work, what then? Reach the long arms of the law
> thru the air waves and nab the bootlegger? Will this end up being
> another George Zimmerman case?
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> truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority.
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> On 6/7/2012 3:24 PM, Harry Brown wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Since we've been talking about different ham radio lingo, etc.
>> I wanted to go another direction, and I want to know what you all think.
>> As you know, riley Hollingsworth, who was known for this cracking down =
>> on rule violaters on the air, isn't doing that any more, since he =
>> retired.
>> I remember the day when I read that, and I thought to myself, "what will
>> =
>> we hams do now?"
>> Then, I read an article, that gave me the answer.
>> I don't remember where it was, whether in QST, or where it was, but it =
>> said something like this, "We hams will have to police the hobby, as the
>> =
>> FCC won't have the resources to do it in the future."
>> I strongly agree with this article.
>> This is our hobby, and the FCC does indeed, not have the resources, and =
>> budget cuts will probably make this situation even worse.
>> So, how should we police ourselves on the air?
>> As a matter of fact, I heard about one way it was done, and I think it's
>> =
>> pretty cool.
>> A local ham friend of myne was talking to a 4th call area station down =
>> in Georgia, and they were having a real enjoyable QSO, and all the =
>> sudden, my friend heard this big bang, noise. Another ham grabbed the =
>> microphone, and said "this station, ...., is a boot leg station, and =
>> will now be taken off the air."
>> My ham friend never heard this boot legger station again!
>> He said to me, "Trippy, I loved it, absolutely loved it, the hams in =
>> that community took matters into their own hands!"
>> So, what do you all think about this issue?
>> Trippy, ac8s
>>
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