parnass@ihu1h.UUCP (Bob Parnass, AJ9S) (08/02/85)
x Remember these postings from earlier this summer? 6.9330 call?_____unidentified: bootleggers in 3 way CB-type conversation, one was mobile, at least one employed as a truck driver , ids= "9", "10", and "13", used Q signals but no call l etters, lsb, 5/15/85 @0100Z [location?] (B. Parnass) call?_____unidentified: bootleggers in CB-type conversation, talke d of mobile antennas and nearby RTTY QRM, ids= "13", "33 " (Dave), lsb, 5/19/85 @0024Z [location?] (B. Parnass) These stations were on almost daily, and often used the word "Oscar" before their numeric identifiers. Who are they? What happened to them? In the August 1985 issue of Monitoring Times, Bob Grove sheds some light on this group in the following article: FCC Closes Illegal Net "A nationwide network of illicit radio operators using lower sideband amateur equipment on 6933 kHz has been nipped in the bud by Federal Communica- tions Commission personnel coordinated through the powder Springs, Georgia, monitoring station." "Known as the 'Oscar' group, the net members used unauthorized identifiers like Oscar 1 (net control station), Oscar 5 (North Winchester, Indiana), Oscar 10 (Ridgetop, Tennessee, near Nashville), Oscar 13 (Groveland, Indiana), and Oscar 33 (also near Groveland)." "The operator identifying himself as Oscar 10 has been closed down and the FCC made an announcement over the air to other net members of that fact. Continued violations will result in continued prosecutions." "Upon issuance of a Notice of Apparent Liability, the Ridgetop resident faces a fine of $700 for unlicensed operation and an additional $300 for operation in an aviation band. Depending upon the disposition of the case by Washington officials, a maximum fine of $10,000 can be levied for unau- thorized use of the airwaves." -- =============================================================================== Bob Parnass, Bell Telephone Laboratories - ihnp4!ihu1h!parnass - (312)979-5414