[BC] No time for pirates

[robertm]

Well I don't know about that. When I was 11 I built and ran a pirate station and even sold commercials. I had a jealous neighbor try to shut it down by trying to pull the antenna down but a 20 gauge shotgun prevented that. Eventually I was called to the principles office at school who was a ham and told me I could loose my ham license. 

Nothing deterred me and I was certainly not afraid of the FCC. Later in life in Europe when there were serious pirates, I made a lot of money helping them. 

The one gig I refused was to set up a pirate radio ship for the Rev McIntire after he lost his Red Lion PA license. Although I disagreed with everything he broadcast, the reason was totally pragmatic. I said come back when you have more than 50 KW (they had a 10KW RCA) and a bigger checkbook. 

Look up pragmatist, you'll find my picture. :-) 


> On Jul 19, 2014, at 10:34 AM, Cowboy <curt at cwf1.com> wrote:
> 
> How many of us as very small children did fear the FCC, explicitly
> because they absolutely would confiscate equipment ?
> I guess you have to be over 50 to remember when government
> actually did *government* functions, and not mostly
> religious charity work.