Hi Mike and all,
Man that's a really funny story.
I only talked to him a few times in the 80's.
But he would talk on and on.
He was fun to listen to for sure.
Thanks 73 Matt ka0pqw
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From: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 12:52 PM
Subject: My Favorite Otis, K5SWK Story


>A friend in Mississippi who knew Otis told me this story a long time
> ago, and someone else put it on one of the AM lists shortly after he died.
>
> At some point in the 60's, Otis had a Hispanic family living next door.
> One day the neighbor lady came to his door and said: "There is an evil
> spirit in my oven. And, when it speaks, it speaks with the voice of Otis!"
>
> Something in her stove was rectifying RF from his KW AM rig. He too ran
> a homemade broadcast type transmitter with a pair of 833 tubes in the
> final and another in the modulator.
>
> That transmitter is still on the air. A guy in Arkansas bought it when
> Otis went into a nursing home.
>
> I only talked with Otis briefly once or twice, and it was in a large
> group, so our direct conversation was short.
>
> However, my roommate at the school for the blind and I spent hours
> listening to him, and wondering how one grown man could have so much
> fun talking on the radio!
>
> -- 
> Mike Duke, K5XU
>
>
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