It's a bunch of crap.  If people have a modicum of common sense and 
courtesy, they don't need jerks like that.  The last thing we need in this 
country is a bunch of a-holes trying to be some kind of a self-vigilante.

Hollingsworth wasn't the be-all and end-all in rules enforcement.  A look at 
any of the Happenings columns in QST will affirm that the FCC is still 
involved in rule enforcement.  We don't need a bunch of hams breaking down 
someone's door to take a bootlegged station off the air.  I know monitoring 
stations have really been scaled back, and you have to be really offensive 
to get their attention nowadays.

But, there always has been a lot of different stuff on the air.  Since you 
haven't been a ham vor very long, it might surprise you to know that there 
was a lot of off-color stuff on the 75-meter and 20-meter bands way back in 
the 50s and 60s.  Those of you around the Midwest might remember the 3830 
gang?  Then, there was that group that hung out on 3895.  And, of course, 
there was the kind of war between AM'ers and sidebanders back in the late 
50s through the late 60s before sideband pretty much took over.  I remember 
those days from when I was a Novice and General.  The only two-meter 
activity was those old Motorola tube AM rigs.

I don't sweat the kind of stuff that goes on.  For the most part, if I don't 
like what I'm listening to, I can just turn the VFO.  It works as well as 
the delete key does for email.
Steve, K8SP
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Harry Brown
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 6:24 PM
Subject: confrontation on the air? what do you all think about this topic?


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