Less than 1 week after I got my General ticket back in 1977, I called CQ on 
a MARS 80 meter frequency.  Wrote the required letter to FCC but never 
heard.
73:
Bob Martin
KC3FI
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: FCC Releases Warning Notices to Several Radio Amateurs


> Ron:
>
> As a sociologist, I couldn't agree more.  And, the sad thing for me, both
> professionally and personally, is that many of my current colleagues think 
> I
> am "old school".  In fact, I have been called that publicly at times.
>
> I, too, remember getting a letter from an official observer back in my
> Novice days in the early 1970's about the fact that I was heard 
> transmitting
> on 20 meters when I was not licensed to do so.  I had a crystal-controlled
> Heath Kit Dx35 transmitter back then, and had somehow inadvertently 
> switched
> the transmitter to 20 meters from 40 meters.
>
> Like you, I was literally shaking in my shoes when I wrote my letter of
> explanation, and promised it would never happen again.
>
> So far as I know, I have held true to that promise.
>
> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Dr. Ronald E. Milliman
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 10:16 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: FCC Releases Warning Notices to Several Radio Amateurs
>
> The saddest issue is not that a bunch of licensed hams are violating the
> rules and behaving in the way they are, but rather, the saddest issue is
> that it represents a much deeper societal problem than that. Step back and
> think about all aspects of our society that are out of control, consider
> what we hear on the radio, see on TV or in the movies, read in the
> newspapers, the mass shootings that are weekly, if not almost daily, road
> rage, the gang violence, and the list goes on and on. None of these things
> were happening in the 1950's and 1960's. There is very little respect for
> the laws of our society, and the total disrespect for the FCC is just one
> tiny microcosm of the problem. When I got my first ham ticket in 1957, we
> were genuinely respectful and fearful of the FCC. When I received my first
> letter warning me that I had been heard transmitting outside the ham 
> bands,
> it scared the crap out of me. The letter required a written explanation of
> why I was operating outside the ham bands, and I remember actually shaking
> as I was trying to compose my letter back to the FCC, writing, reading,
> re-writing, reading again, and re-writing it again, making certain that 
> each
> word very carefully conveyed what I needed to say, and letting the FCC 
> know
> I was extremely concerned and would take steps to insure that it would 
> never
> happen again.
>
> We're living in a very different era, and I think that for every step we
> have taken foreword in terms of technology and other things, we have taken
> two steps backward in terms of human relations and civility. Again, Ham
> radio is just one example.
>
> Ron, K8HSY
>
>
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