Yes, I remember Paul, Wa5FHP very well.
I remember one new years eve when he got really pickled. He was pretty
much
gone by 7:00 PM. Someone in southeast Texas came into his qso running a
Drake line with a linear in the AM mode. Paul then spent at least 20
minutes
giving that guy a thorough tongue lashing for not running "a real AM
transmitter."
I'm not sure what he was doing to his own rig that night, but the later
the
hour, and the more drunk he became, the longer he would ramble, and the
wider his signal became. Seriously, I have never heard an AM signal that
wide before or since, not even during my CB days.
One of the people that Paul talked with almost every night was Gene,
WA5ATH,
(SK) in Houston, who had almost as good a signal as K5SWK.
Mike Duke, K5XU
Another famous 75m AM character was Conrad Bridges, W4EBG, Paducah, Ky. For
a while, Paul and Con had a running feud over the Central Gulf Coast
Hurricane Net. Con would make it a point to come on the net frequency a few
minutes before the net was to start up, and harass Paul and the other net
members, and then Paul and Con would get into a knock-down-dragout verbal
argument and end up cussing at each other. I think they both were having
fun and had to bite their lips to keep from laughing out loud during one of
their tirades.
Don k4kyv
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