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Charles L. Cotton wrote:

JALLEN wrote:. . . The psycho had his license revoked. Those guys are all dead now.

Nice shooting.

Chas.

Don't think there weren't times when shooting some of them seemed like a Real Good Idea[tm]. Those idiots caused a great deal of trouble, disgraceful and disturbing.

It was ~30 years ago, most of them were old fogies, borderline senile, probably, and died years ago of alcohol abuse and old age, AFAIK.

The alcoholic psycho who threatened me was caught red handed by the FCC transmitting music on the input of another repeater system. His amateur license was revoked after a several day trial before the Chief Administrative Law Judge.

I was secretary and trustee of the SANDRA (San Diego Repeater Association) repeater site on Mt. Otay for some years in the '80's. I was "honored" with this duty as a result of an unpleasant situation involving an alcoholic psychopath and his acolytes, and their opponents. I had a couple of death threats. The psycho had his license revoked. Those guys are all dead now.

Morse was not a problem. I just never got around to it. My brother, a big time, true blue DXer, read about incentive licensing when it was announced, hit the books and upgraded immediately, as I should have done. We were at UT then, young and full of ourselves. I was about to be a warrior, get my orders, looking forward to all that excitement, and next thing I knew, I still had not done it. It didn't seem to matter to what I was doing.

Then I was retired, sitting around last summer, getting my station here hooked up, and thought, "this is ridiculous!", so I hit the books for a pleasant few weeks and came out with 49 right. I've been astonished at the DX I was missing in the once forbidden Kilocyc... Err, kilohertz.

You may be interested in a new book, "Patient Procrastination" by yours truly. It will be available through Amazon.com if I ever get around to writing it.

I celebrated 56 years of being licensed a couple of months ago.

After 42 years of patient, persistent, experienced, dedicated, skillful procrastination, I upgraded from Advanced to Extra last fall.

I have a bunch of radios, Tentec Omni VI+, Elecraft K-2, ICOM 706MKIIG, MFJ 9020. My dipole came down this spring in the storms, so I put up a rotating dipole 44' long this summer. I also have a homebrew clone S9v31 that I built, using Petlowany coils for radials. HOA limitations, and the solid rock here makes a tower and rotating antennas a dicey proposition. I hope to try a ~300' loop before long. After decades of all sorts of activity, I only work QRP CW.

In my past life, I was a VC, EC, DXer, DFer, repeater trustee of a very large system in San Diego, and was a Radioman in the Navy Reserve before I got my commission.

My masterful procrastination drives my wife nuts. She wants me to join a support group, and I may, some day. I checked into it. They haven't met yet, so there is no rush.