“For the past 8 years, I have been the victim of relentless personal attacks, slander and harassment by a small group of other hams.\u00a0 These other hams do not appear to contribute anything back to the ham community in the form of emergency or public event service, but instead spend their time stirring up trouble between different hams or groups.\u00a0 As a few examples, they were actively involved in getting the AARO ham club kicked out of their regular meeting location at\u00a0 University\u00a0 Hospital due to their\u00a0 disturbance during such meeting.\u00a0 They were active in training a non-ham how to program his pawnshop bought hand held ham radio and encouraged him to cause willful interference on multiple repeaters. That non-ham received letters from the FCC ordering him to cease and desist, as did the hams who were actively prompting his actions.\u00a0 That non-ham is currently pending legal action against him by the Bexar County DA’s office and has been released on bond pending trial later this year.\u00a0 (His original trial dates have been continually postponed and rescheduled since this started in 2014.)”<\/p>\n
“In the previous years,\u00a0Gary Sheets, Thomas Caldwell and Russ Flowers also\u00a0created and distributed CD’s,\u00a0containing (so called)\u00a0proof of my alleged personal\u00a0misdeeds,\u00a0to over 100 Amateurs, plus the American Red Cross, TX VHF Society and my employer, in an attempt to try and create a persona for me that was blatantly false. ”<\/p>\n
[Webmaster Notes: Russ Flowers had previously contacted me directly last year, claiming he wasn’t actively involved with this “complaint issue” – Lee N5NTG]<\/p>\n
“I was fortunate and able to provide all of the indisputable documentation proving the truth and not the fabricated story that these three individuals invented and continue to this day. By providing indisputable evidence showing them to have created these lies, their efforts have had no negative impact upon me, and in fact,\u00a0benefited my reputation within the Amateur Community. ”<\/p>\n
“I\u00a0have collected\u00a0more than 70 copies of these CDs from other folks that I will some day find a use for.\u00a0 Maybe to use them as hanging reflective devices to frighten off birds or signal mirrors when I’m out in the boondocks hunting, sort of like we used to do with those pesky AOL CDs.”<\/p>\n
“These other hams have been relentless in the continued efforts to try and discredit me among fellow Amateurs and people with whom I am working on projects with and try to impact my efforts.”<\/p>\n
“Gary Sheets {WD5FWP} made the statement that he would destroy me, and he has spearheaded many personal attacks. Ignoring these actions prove fruitless because it just drives them to work harder to get a reaction, so my only remaining option is in a public forum to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that they lies they are telling are exactly that. Each time they attempt to harm me with twisted truths, our right lies and fabricated tails, I\u00a0have been\u00a0providing public evidence of the actions of these individuals as well as indisputable evidence to disprove their lies.”<\/p>\n
“#1: Upon learning of my plans for our 4th Fusion repeater in the Bandera area of the Texas Hill Country, Gary Sheets {WD5FWP} began telling local individuals up there, that my repeaters were operated illegally and that the FCC had served me a summons to fix my repeater {specifically the 14KC over deviation}, and that I refused to make the repairs and in fact adding a jamming device to my repeater to cause deliberate and harmful interference to Gary Sheets 147.140 repeater. He told several individuals that through FOIA (the freedom of information act) they had copies of not only the letters of warning from the FCC, but letter of order to terminate the operation of my repeater until which time it was properly aligned and serviced.”<\/p>\n
“This caused the individuals which whom I was working with to have concerns about working with me on a repeater project, but fortunately I was able to provide them with evidence {included in this post} and allow them to understand where the accusations were being generated.”<\/p>\n
“#2: Gary Sheets {WD5FWP}, on multiple occasions, has informed these same individuals that I was a jammer and responsible for the dead-keying of his repeater. He has done this no less than 27 times over the past year, he also stated the FCC was looking into my jamming activities and I was warned by the FCC to fly right.”<\/p>\n
“#3: Gary Sheets and Thomas Caldwell on multiple occasions have publicly stated over the air,\u00a0that they had copies of the FCC warning letters advising me that I was under investigation and under order to bring my repeaters into legal and proper operation. They also threatened to go to American Red Cross informing them of my [alleged]\u00a0illegal activities and repeater operation and how it would leave them liable for any interference my repeaters caused to other transmitters. I am aware of at least\u00a0two occasions where one or more of them have\u00a0gone to the Red Cross filing complaints in an attempt to get them to remove my repeaters. Those repeaters are also\u00a0being used in emergency service by the Bexar County ARES group and others for public event communications support.”<\/p>\n
“#4: Thomas Caldwell and Gary Sheets on multiple occasions have publicly stated that they had a copy of the letter I wrote to the FCC informing them of my efforts to repair my repeater and to properly set the deviation and how I purchased a Station Monitor to make these repairs as per the FCC orders. They also reported multiple conversations they claimed to have had personally with Officer Lee Browning of the Investigative Division of the FCC and how he stated after a discussion regarding what they call my repeater beacon “If I allowed that, think of all the trouble we would have” and that Mr. Browning promised immediate and full action for my refusal to make the repairs and to turn off my “illegal beacon”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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