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Dave wrote:

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:20:45 GMT, Bruce in alaska said:

Having been in the Radio Regulation Enforcement Biz for many
years,

Ah, that explains a great deal.

I once had a partner who said he would never hire a former regulator as a
lawyer. He said they were very good at being able to quote chapter and
verse, and to regurgitate the agency's position, but very bad at determining
when the agency was wrong.

I wasn't one of the Lawyers, but a Resident Field Agent. I mostly did
SOLAS Inspections on Compulsory Equipped Vessels, and a bit of
Interference and unLicensed Operation Enforcement.

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Bruce in alaska
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Bruce in alaska wrote in news:fast-
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unLicensed Operation Enforcement.

What was the biggest CB linear? How many TV sweep tubes did it have in
parallel?.....(c;

I saw a home brew linear at a hamfest that had enough sweep tubes in
parallel that its output impedance was 50 ohms! It was HUGE! Not sure
how they kept it from eating Channels 2 and 5, though....

CB went all to hell after they quit makin' 6J?6's....(c;

I built an amp for HF with a pair of 4-1000A's in proper sockets and
chimneys, pole transformer hooked up backwards controlled with 30A
230VAC Variac, home wound filament transformer.

Mine was different because it was common cathode and the RF input was a
100W dummy load with adjustable drive on the finals. Screen supply had
two power tube regulators, a copy of a Hewlett-Packard lab powersupply.
It was beautiful in its World War 2 Navy TBK transmitter cabinet...first
class rotary inductors and 25KV vacuum variable plate cap.

We never operated over 1000 watts DC input to the final power
amplifier...on 20 meter RTTY for hours sending teletype pictures of
Vargas Girls out of the latest Playboy. I still got a few reperf tapes
for old times sake! With 2KW of graphite plates and a 5KVA plate
supply, 100% duty cycle at a kilowatt was loafing....

WFIG-AM had a 3-tower cardioid array running about 200W on 1240? at
night pointed right over my antenna array. Ernest Jenkins was the great
old engineer that kept the 866's glowing blood red (in the day). EJ
would call me up at night and say, "You on 75 meter SSB tonight?" "Yes,
I'm on 3903." "Well, how about give me 5 minutes to read the antenna
current meters. You got more current in these towers than I do!", he'd
joke as I did make them "wiggle" a tiny bit, being near 3/4 wavelength
and near my full wave loop on 75M...(c; I used to go down during
thunderstorms and stand by the old Gates with my fingers on the Fils and
Plates buttons. EJ wasn't really too mobile at 79 years old and he'd
stay at the night console across the room from the Gates while I kept
recycling the power every time the lights on our crappy rural electric
system blinked out.....

73 DE W4CSC aka KN4IM aka WB4THE aka WN2IWH and 20W1956.

I go way back....(c;

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Dave wrote:

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:04:51 GMT, Bruce in alaska said:

I wasn't one of the Lawyers, but a Resident Field Agent. I mostly did
SOLAS Inspections on Compulsory Equipped Vessels, and a bit of
Interference and unLicensed Operation Enforcement.

Ah, so you with enforcing the laws without any legal training.

I got all the Legal Training I needed, from the Regional Legal Staff,
and the US Attorney's Office. Just how much Legal Training do you think
a US Marshal has? All he needs to know is your violating a Law, and he
puts you in the Hoosgow... We, as Resident Field Agents, didn't have
Arrest Powers, and when we needed "Muscle" we went and got a US Marshal,
or a USCG Officer, depending if the violation was on LAND or Water.
They provided the "Muscle", and we provided the expertise. Believe me,
you don't want to be trying to tell a US Marshal, that he can't put the
cuffs on you, or trying to tell a USCG Officer that he can't board you
vessel, and do his duty. In BOTH cases, those guys have ALMOST unlimited
Powers, on point, and they let the Courts worry about the fine points of
the situation. I watched a US Marshal, lock up a small town Sheriff, in
his own Slammer, for willful violations of the Communications Act of
1934. It stuck too. The guy did time for it, in a Federal Prison, and
had to pay a $5KUS fine. I wasn't with the Commission at the time, but
was the Radio Tech, for the local Sheriff, The Field Agent, was one
of the toughest Inspecting Engineers, in the Commission, and a mentor
while I was learning the Service Side, of the SOLAS Game., a few years
later.

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Bruce in alaska
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I don't
know where they went after that.


Probably 13....(c;

On 2008-07-15 06:07:13 -0400, said:

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:41:43 +0000, Larry wrote:

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I don't know where they went after that.

Probably 13....(c;

An excellent guess. I know they didn't, though because that's one of
the channels I always scan.

Used for drawbridges and tug traffic around here, so it's on my scan.

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Jere Lull
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