Hi all
I don't remember Paul but i have talked to Otis k5swk back in the 80's.
I havn't heard him on for years.
I suppose he is gone.
I think his dauter was killed in a car acccsedent back in the 80's.
very interesting.
Thanks 73 Matt ka0pqw
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Buddy Brannan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 7:54 AM
Subject: Re: AnPaul, WA5FHP


> Ah, Otis, K5SWK. Now there=92s 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.=20
>
> 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!=20=
>
>
> Helluva op. He=92ll surely be missed.=20
> On May 19, 2014, at 6:35 AM, Mike Duke, K5XU <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Jim and all,
>>=20
>> I remember Paul very well.
>>=20
>> I actually talked with him a few times while I was running a Viking=20
>> Valiant while in high school.
>>=20
>> Paul made the longest non bulletin type transmission I ever heard.
>>=20
>> It was New Year's Eve of 1968, the year before I passed my Novice=20
>> license. He had been into the punch bowl way too heavy by 7 PM.
>>=20
>> He was so drunk he could hardly say his call. Somebody came on=20
>> frequency running a set of drake twins and a linear on AM, and he=20
>> landed on them for running "such low power." Over and over again he=20
>> said "Go somewhere and find a real radio!:"
>>=20
>> This rant went on for at least 30 minutes.
>>=20
>> I found other things to do, and other people to listen too, but when 
>> I=20=
>
>> tuned across him again just after midnight of the new year, he was=20
>> still at it. By then, he had turned up his audio, or mis-tuned=20
>> something to the point that he was at least 30 khz wide.
>>=20
>> I think his rig at the time was a pair of 833 tubes modulated by=20
>> another pair. Anyway, I could hear him, or K5SWK in Houston, TX, any=20=
>
>> time of the day or night they got on the air.
>>=20
>>=20
>>=20
>> Original message:
>>> Hi everyone, I remember a guy here that used to run am from deQuincy =
> =3D
>>> Louisiana anyone rember Paul Wb5-fhp?
>>> Jim
>>>  ----- Original Message -----=3D20
>>>  From: Mike Duke, K5XU=3D20
>>>  To: [log in to unmask]
>>>  Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 8:57 PM
>>>  Subject: Re: Another Character
>>=20
>>=20
>>>  Phil,
>>=20
>>>  Yes, that was him, K6KPS.
>>=20
>>>  I knew he had died, but I didn't know that about the amplifier =
> being=3D20
>>>  the cause of it.
>>=20
>>>  --=3D20
>>>  Mike Duke, K5XU
>>=20
>> --=20
>> Mike Duke, K5XU
>
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