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
>   ----- Original Message -----=20
>   From: Mike Duke, K5XU=20
>   To: [log in to unmask]
>   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.

>   --=20
>   Mike Duke, K5XU

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Mike Duke, K5XU