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3840 khz Bootlegger Net & Jammers (LSB) 05:30 UTC
Charlie_Dont_Surf:
--- Quote from: Josh on August 14, 2019, 1903 UTC ---There's even a 440 repeater in socal that carries much the same bunch with the same repertoire. Can't recall the freq but they're famous for having fcc investigations and so on.
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K6MWT: 147.435 (output), 146.400 MHz (input), 103.5 PL tone.
https://your435.com/about/
--- Quote ---The Southern California 147.435 FM repeater (435) is famous for lively discussion on controversial subjects.
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- Though to me it just sounds like a bunch of people calling each other names most of the time.
You can listen here: https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/14747/web
Charlie_Dont_Surf:
--- Quote from: MDK2 on June 16, 2019, 2254 UTC ---As bad as 3840 LSB can get (and I have a particular interest in this one because one of the regulars, KØAXE, is only about 28 miles from me as the crow flies - I wonder if I'll ever run into him at the local HRO or any ham gathering in town), I have to say that it amazes me that W6WBJ is still on the air with a license now 12 years expired, which the FCC won't renew, but which he can keep using because he's apparently a skilled enough attorney to keep the appeals going. His determination to jam the WARFA net on 3908 with some of the worst garbage you've heard on the ham bands is a measure of both determination and profound mental disturbances. Probably one and the same with this loon.
I've heard him live on 3840 a couple of times. He's with his kind of people there.
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W6WBJ recently was finally, finally denied his appeal of of the rejection of his 2007 (?!!) license renewal. (http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-turns-down-amateur-licensee-s-appeal) However, they have not, the last time I checked, canceled his license. So he continues to operate, jam the WARFA net, etc.
It's incredible to me that someone has so little going on in their life and is so petty that they feel the need to attempt to jam every occurrence of a net (3x/week), for years on end, non-stop. But that's ham radio...where introverts with no social skills end up.
As for the rest of the 3840 KHz crew, it seems like that frequency has been more quiet in the last year or so, though I don't check too often so I will admit to some ignorance. Once people started to jam that frequency with recordings on a daily basis, the regulars (NO6EL, KK6FR, K0AXE, et al.) have found other places to be, apparently.
MDK2:
--- Quote from: Charlie_Dont_Surf on March 14, 2020, 0324 UTC ---W6WBJ recently was finally, finally denied his appeal of of the rejection of his 2007 (?!!) license renewal. (http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-turns-down-amateur-licensee-s-appeal) However, they have not, the last time I checked, canceled his license. So he continues to operate, jam the WARFA net, etc.
It's incredible to me that someone has so little going on in their life and is so petty that they feel the need to attempt to jam every occurrence of a net (3x/week), for years on end, non-stop. But that's ham radio...where introverts with no social skills end up.
As for the rest of the 3840 KHz crew, it seems like that frequency has been more quiet in the last year or so, though I don't check too often so I will admit to some ignorance. Once people started to jam that frequency with recordings on a daily basis, the regulars (NO6EL, KK6FR, K0AXE, et al.) have found other places to be, apparently.
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In the case of W6WBJ, I think we have a common sociopath. Nothing more, nothing less. Thanks for that link BTW, I had missed that notice. As for the others you're probably right, but I don't know if they've reconvened as I haven't found them all at one place - not that I'm really looking but I figure I'll probably stumble across KØAXE at some point since he has a big signal into my QTH.
Charlie_Dont_Surf:
--- Quote from: Charlie_Dont_Surf on March 14, 2020, 0259 UTC ---
--- Quote from: Josh on August 14, 2019, 1903 UTC ---There's even a 440 repeater in socal that carries much the same bunch with the same repertoire. Can't recall the freq but they're famous for having fcc investigations and so on.
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K6MWT: 147.435 (output), 146.400 MHz (input), 103.5 PL tone.
https://your435.com/about/
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Whoops. I was looking at the thread again just now and realized that I replied to a 440 repeater inquiry with a 2 meter answer. DUH.
In any case, on the same peak (Santiago Peak in southern Orange County), there is a 446.64 ( - offset, 77.0 PL tone) repeater that has, let's say, similar clientele. Not nearly as out of control as K6MWT - not even in the same universe - but similar.
Charlie_Dont_Surf:
--- Quote from: MDK2 on March 15, 2020, 2318 UTC ---In the case of W6WBJ, I think we have a common sociopath. Nothing more, nothing less.
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Good point.
--- Quote from: MDK2 on March 15, 2020, 2318 UTC ---As for the others you're probably right, but I don't know if they've reconvened as I haven't found them all at one place - not that I'm really looking
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I've been checking a bit more often since I posted about this earlier. WA7BZI and some of the others seem to show up a lot but mostly it's people playing editing recordings of the other former regulars, including the bootleggers. Most of the regulars are still listening though and you can hear them drop a comment in here and there.
[Side note: one of the main retorts to the bootleggers has been, "Do you have a callsign?" However, it's not like the regulars, who are acting all high and mighty by asking that question, adhere to the rules about identification either. They dip in and dip out without identifying. You can listen for hours on that frequency and not hear them identify.]
A year ago or more, the other regulars got sick of the frequency and ended up on the extra-class portion of 80 meters (until the jammers found them there too) but also sometimes 160 meters. They don't seem to be doing that anymore, at least recently anyway.
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