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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2016 20:48:42 GMT
MIGHTY 1650: "Ramsey Boards killed by same guy?"
That's what I heard too.
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Post by Druid Hills Radio on Aug 18, 2016 16:41:39 GMT
MIGHTY 1650: " Ramsey Boards killed by same guy?" That's what I heard too.
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Post by MrBruce on Aug 19, 2016 5:43:07 GMT
MIGHTY 1650: " Ramsey Boards killed by same guy?" That's what I heard too. Okay I'm stumped. Is that Rich Fry? You know I used to hear about some guy named "Commander Bunny" who used to run a site related to part 15 I presume, and turned people into the FCC who said questionable things. I seen those claims in a google groups board under "pirate radio". Anyone know any thing about that person? Bruce.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2016 10:17:20 GMT
Word On the Street
I've always heard Commander Bunny talked about as if he is one of the best known shortwave pirates out there.
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Post by mighty1650 on Aug 19, 2016 11:49:51 GMT
I was going to say the only Commander Bunny I know is that Shortwave pirate that fires up every Easter and then some.
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Post by Druid Hills Radio on Aug 19, 2016 17:04:21 GMT
Okay I'm stumped. Is that Rich Fry? You know I used to hear about some guy named "Commander Bunny" who used to run a site related to part 15 I presume, and turned people into the FCC who said questionable things. I seen those claims in a google groups board under "pirate radio". Anyone know any thing about that person? Bruce. Yes Mr. Bruce, this is our Resident Agent. :-)
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Post by MrBruce on Aug 19, 2016 20:31:53 GMT
Okay guys well I don't hang out in that google group, but when I was googling broadcast radio related stuff a few years ago, a topic showed up and I was thumbing through it, but that was 4 years ago or more now and I can't remember the details and it took forever finding that stuff back then, it will take a better part of a day to find it now scrolling through all the posts. So, perhaps I have the name wrong, but whoever it was, ran a part 15 related web site and that site is supposedly now long gone.
Just for giggles, I am searching that group and see that "Commander Bunny" is a different person than what I was thinking. Still have not found the posts I am referring to earlier in this thread, as of yet, like I said, its a very long unorganized list, specially if I do not remember the key words to use, to shorten the search.
I just curious if anyone knows what board I am referring to and if it was Rich who ran it.
Bruce.
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Post by mighty1650 on Aug 20, 2016 21:58:23 GMT
I vaguely recall a part 15 yahoo group but it was near death even when I found it several years ago.
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Post by End80 on Dec 20, 2016 8:31:56 GMT
"The Legend of the Long Ground Lead" could be fashioned into a Country Song or maybe a Polka. I love that idea! Hope somebody does it.
As for CRUSA, the Community Radio USA forum was my primary hangout back then and I remember very well the ongoing and insistent disruption from the one particular member whos only objective was not to be broadcasting, but to destroy those who did. So far as I know, even to this day, he has never been or has ever had any desire to broadcast, nor owned a part15 transmitter.
If he is really the reason the rules described "ground lead" became reinterpreted to mean the ground line, I really don't know, but there is no doubt he's the only one that shined the spotlight on it so bright, and for so long, that it made such an extreme issue the FCC were compelled to address it, when previously it was not an issue at all.
It's the kind of person he is, and I've learned to accept it. But I have never understood why someone who has never had any interest in owning or operating a part15 transmitter, or broadcasting, not in the past, not now, nor any intentions of doing so in the future, and as been booted out of every single part15 related forum in the past.. why is he accepted with open arms at part15.us??
I've told myself so many times I wouldn't express resentment concerning him again.. but damn, his actions resulted in breaking a lot peoples heart and livelihood back then, including my own, and every once in a while it wells back up. And all for what?.. because he could.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2016 15:13:02 GMT
Holiday Story of Ground Leads and Candy Canes
During the period of time while the Resident Agent was banned from part15_us because of previous discord over his nagging finger wagging NOUO warnings, he managed to respond to threads at part15_us by sending me and others frequent e-mails in response to ongoing threads, no doubt in the hope we'd forward them on by publishing them, which no one did.
So he upped the ante by offering me the opportunity to re-post his "technically true and accurate" comments and TAKE THE CREDIT FOR THEM MYSELF AS IF I'D SUDDENLY MORPHED INTO ALBERT EINSTEIN.
It shows how hell bent he is to get his message across.
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Post by Druid Hills Radio on Dec 20, 2016 15:51:22 GMT
Holiday Story of Ground Leads and Candy CanesDuring the period of time while the Resident Agent was banned from part15_us because of previous discord over his nagging finger wagging NOUO warnings, he managed to respond to threads at part15_us by sending me and others frequent e-mails in response to ongoing threads, no doubt in the hope we'd forward them on by publishing them, which no one did. So he upped the ante by offering me the opportunity to re-post his "technically true and accurate" comments and TAKE THE CREDIT FOR THEM MYSELF AS IF I'D SUDDENLY MORPHED INTO ALBERT EINSTEIN. It shows how hell bent he is to get his message across. It is his religion. To paraphrase the movie "A Christmas Story," "Some men are Protestants, some are Catholic, Resident Agent Rich is a FCC Man."
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2016 16:00:16 GMT
I'm confused, rpowers.
If it's not OK to discuss some of the negative issues surrounding Hobbybroadcaster (and by extension, Bill DeFelice, since he IS Hobbybroadcaster) - a feeling that you espoused over at Part15.us - then why is it OK to dump on others in a similar fashion?
Here are my feelings on the subject. It's OK to criticize the actions and/or words of ANYONE (including Bill DeFelice). It's NOT OK to criticize someone personally.
Sometimes it's a fine line, and I fall into the trap as well. But to allow personal feelings (positive or negative) to enter into a discussion is to do everyone reading your (the generic your) posts a disservice.
I received an e-mail recently as a result of moderating Part15.us that I will paraphrase and share. The past is the past. Rip out the mirror that looks backwards, and deal with the here and the now.
Wise words to live by.
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Post by jimhenry2000 on Jan 25, 2017 7:28:34 GMT
Sad. Just Sad... This is truly a legend as told to me by several radio people over the past several years. Once upon a time the FCC was lax about counting long ground leads as part of the antenna length under 15.219. So the story goes. The tale continues. Aware that long ground leads would make Part 15 AM transmitters more appealing to the marketplace, manufacturers made "long ground leads" part of their instruction for safe installation. One radio engineer somewhere in the U.S. spotted the long ground lead as a possible source of "bonus" radiation and, remembering this is only an anecdote handed down from the past, this engineer turned "ground lead justice" into his own life mission, and began warning manufacturers they were in violation of FCC rules. The manufacturers were highly annoyed by this engineer's ongoing assault. What's more, this is what I was told, that self-deputized engineer began phoning, mailing and e-mailing the FCC complaining vigorously and persistently about the detected violation. Although feeling pestered by the constant complaints, FCC Inspectors responded with action. Crack-downs began, transmitter users were notified of violations, manufacturers were forced to edit their instructions removing the ground lead part. Transmitter sales hit the dumps. Today this fabled engineer rides his victory as if it were the invention of radio itself. This isn't me making this up, it's only based on stories. As we hear it, he holds top place as the "discoverer" of radiation from long ground leads. It is a subject that attracts him like a bear to a dead fish. Re-posted from part15(dot)us by permission of the author
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Post by End80 on Jan 25, 2017 11:13:07 GMT
Yes, it was sad.
David, It's not ok to dump on others in a similar fashion.. I just as human as anyone else and make the same errors as anyone else, and feel regrets for dumping on people when I do. But to answer your question, and not to say it makes it alright, but the difference is that one attempts to progress and advance part 15, and while the other appeared to fight against it, and did, during a high period when man hobby broadcasters were achieving great ranges without alerting the eyes of the FCC, personally put forth all efforts to ensure that the FCC addressed the issue. That is what happened.
Now that said, in the end he was actually 100% right in all his arguments, but very wrong to have prodded the FCC to act against those who had misconceptions about their illegal installs. That was just wrong no matter how you look at it, and I guess I do still harbor a little resentment. Fry definitely knows what he's talking about, but to actually take action against those who had disagreed with him, who were doing no one any harm.. Well, that kind of made his rights result in wrongs.
My opinions of him are now much more positive than they use to be, but some things are just hard to forget.
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Post by End80 on Jan 25, 2017 11:31:38 GMT
He did definitely clear away misconceptions of part 15 and it's capabilities, but that would have gradually happened on it's own anyway, and on it's own that gradual process would not have been so devastating to the part 15 community, and there would not have been someone to point the finger at, and there would never have been hard feelings towards anyone about it.
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