Ah, Otis, K5SWK. Now there’s a call I will always remember fondly.
Only talked to him a couple times. He was very tolerant of my crappy SSB and what not.
But man, did he have a signal. He keyed his transmitter, you heard the *Snap*, and all the background noise went away. And what audio he had!
Helluva op. He’ll surely be missed.
On May 19, 2014, at 6:35 AM, Mike Duke, K5XU <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Mike Duke, K5XU
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