Jim and all,
I remember Paul very well.
I actually talked with him a few times while I was running a Viking
Valiant while in high school.
Paul made the longest non bulletin type transmission I ever heard.
It was New Year's Eve of 1968, the year before I passed my Novice
license. He had been into the punch bowl way too heavy by 7 PM.
He was so drunk he could hardly say his call. Somebody came on
frequency running a set of drake twins and a linear on AM, and he
landed on them for running "such low power." Over and over again he
said "Go somewhere and find a real radio!:"
This rant went on for at least 30 minutes.
I found other things to do, and other people to listen too, but when I
tuned across him again just after midnight of the new year, he was
still at it. By then, he had turned up his audio, or mis-tuned
something to the point that he was at least 30 khz wide.
I think his rig at the time was a pair of 833 tubes modulated by
another pair. Anyway, I could hear him, or K5SWK in Houston, TX, any
time of the day or night they got on the air.
Original message:
> Hi everyone, I remember a guy here that used to run am from deQuincy =
> Louisiana anyone rember Paul Wb5-fhp?
> Jim
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> From: Mike Duke, K5XU=20
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> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 8:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Another Character
> Phil,
> Yes, that was him, K6KPS.
> I knew he had died, but I didn't know that about the amplifier being=20
> the cause of it.
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> Mike Duke, K5XU
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Mike Duke, K5XU
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