Comments on: The life and times of cultic ham Romeo Stepanenko

The life and times of cultic ham Romeo Stepanenko

Taksi Putra — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:11:00 -0800

The life and times of cultic ham Romeo Stepanenko: 1 & 2 & 3.

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:22:36 -0800

Early 90s Russian cultic ham brings back memories. Who could forget UA1ZCU, UA6XGL, RW3DP, UV3DCX, UA3DMC, UA6YHP, UV3ACQ, RA3AA, UA3AOC and UA3ANL. But of course it was all about 3W3RR and his activities XY, P5 and 5A Romeo's trial is scheduled to begin in San Francisco on Monday, November 28, 2005. (To be continued) What happened? The page was lasted updated in 2005.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:33:05 -0800

He must still be in the clink, he ratted on Golubov.

By: twoleftfeet

twoleftfeet — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:17:38 -0800

Nobody hears us when we're alone in the blue future No one receiving the radio's splintered waves In these metal ways In these metal days.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:33:10 -0800

This seems fascinating, but I've got no idea what's going on. The second link is the only one that's even vaguely penetrable to a non-ham, but I still don't understand why anyone would care about this stuff. Is there some sort of status attached to receiving broadcasts from hard to reach countries?

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:24:26 -0800

I thought this was going to be about some obscure bad actor in B-Movies. I was pleasantly surprised.

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:32:12 -0800

I really like the QSL cards designs, especially the older Central and Eastern European ones. There's scans of thousands of them here, and a personal collection here. As for Stepanenko, I take it pretending to be somewhere you're not is pretty much the worst thing a radio ham can do?

By: tellurian

tellurian — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:09:06 -0800

jack_mo, that site has the most rictus inducing set of dull convention photos I have ever seen.

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:40:33 -0800

Blimey, I hadn't seen those. Those radio hams sure have a wild time at their conventions.