[HATS] A Sad Day in Texas for Ham Radio

[Bill Roberts]

As a follow up to Steve's emails a few weeks ago regarding the Texas VHF FM 
Society, here is what happened at the meeting on Saturday, Aug 7.  Make 
certain you forward this to every ham in Texas that you know, especially 
those of you who forwarded Steve's previous emails.  This has got to reach 
every ham in Texas.

There was no doubt in anyone's mind who came to summerfest that Armadillo 
President George Fink, K5GWF, and his army of Borg, the Armadillo Intertie 
(otherwise known as dillo), control the VHF FM Society and all of frequency 
coordination in Texas for their own personal gain and preferential treatment 
at the expense of all of the rest of us hams in Texas.  The reason it was a 
sad day was not because the Reform party lost by 2 votes, but because they 
actually won, but the election was bought and blocked by Armadillo.  Not 
only was there election committee improprieties because the election 
committee counting the votes was made up of all dillos, but several people 
said they saw dillos stuffing extra votes in the ballot box.  In order to 
get enough voters on the dillo side, half of the dillos were ordered to vote 
the dillo ticket by K5GWF and they had no idea why.  Dillos were driving in 
from all corners of the state, but they had no ! idea why.  This was heard 
on the dillo channels many times.  The other half of the dillos who think 
that they are self thinking enough to ask why that they were ordered to vote 
the dillo ticket by K5GWF, were told nothing but lies and slanderous 
personal attacks against the Reform directors and their constituents.  K5GWF 
was pulling everyone he could out of the line to get into the meeting to 
spread these lies and tell everyone to vote the dillo ticket.  It was 
blatantly obvious.  Everyone saw him.  These slanderous attacks and lies 
were also spread by dillo, outside of dillo, to as many local hams who would 
listen.  Even some of these local hams who hate dillo voted the dillo ticket 
because the lies were so bad.  Dillo used fear tactics and dirty politics.  
They were told that the collective was being attacked.  Klingons and 
Romulans were out to destroy dillo and all of ham radio if new blood gets in 
the VHF FM Society.  The only thing that was really at stake was that dillo 
would loose its preferential treatment.  Of course if K5GWF and dillo says 
it's true, then its got to be the gospel.  God forbid new people are allowed 
to help the rest of us hams in Texas out and give us a voice in frequency 
coordination.  It all boils down to greed and power by dillo and K5GWF.  
Does dillo really think the rest of the hams in Texas are soooo stupid to 
believe their lie that that it is only a coincidence the VHF FM Society 
controlling power is all made up dillo board members?  (SHHHHH...don't tell 
anyone we were smart enough to figure it out.)

Here is a list of just a few of the lies that dillo made up and distributed 
to win the election and maintain their power and preferential treatment.  I 
personally heard these.  Keep in mind these are lies and if you heard them 
you now know the truth.

1 Frequency coordination will be destroyed in Texas if new non-dillo people 
get in power. (the only thing that would really be destroyed is dillo's 
preferential treatment)

2. The reform party gets repeater owners kicked off of buildings.  (this has 
NEVER happened).

3. The reform party wants to fire all of the frequency coordinators.  (Not 
True)

4. The reform party wants to make drastic changes that will forever hurt 
coordination  (Again, not true, they only want to make it fair for everyone 
and start to provide some service to the rest of us.  How bad can that be??)

5. The reform directors only want to obtain data to start a second 
coordination group.  (This is ridiculous.  The reform directors have 
encourage others who did want to start a second group not to, and see if 
this group can be fixed first.  The reform directors could have started one 
right away and not have to endure a year of hell because of lies and 
personal attacks initiated by dillo.  If a second coordination group was 
started, the FCC has ruled that both groups MUST share data.  Doesn't make 
much sense that they are just out to get data for a second group, does it?)

6. There were numerous personal attacks that were of an obscene nature to a 
female and I can't repeat them.  Let's just say that K5GWF needs to be raked 
over the coals for supporting this conduct.  Many other dillos were also 
involved.  It is disgusting and outrageous.  This was the lowest thing 
anyone could do.  It proves dillo is the lowest scum of ham radio.

The meeting was a disgrace too.  It was only to benefit dillo and the dillo 
ticket.  The Reform directors were stifled from telling the truth by the 
dillo-society president KA5WMY.  They were ordered to shut up during their 
directors reports, however, the dillo directors were allowed to do anything 
they wanted.  Like me, many of you were outraged.  No doubt this was at the 
direction of K5GWF, K5SXK, W5PSB and other dillo leaders who lie so dillo 
can keep control, at the price of me and you.  Directors are elected and 
part of their job is to report to the people what is happening in the 
organization.  This was a violation of freedom of speech and the American 
way.  If this ever happens again, the people in the meeting need to revolt 
and riot.  When the elections came around they stifled one of the Reform 
candidates because they did not like his speech.  Why is it when someone is 
given th! e floor for 3 minutes to make a speech stifled?  They were not 
being obscene, upset or anything beyond what would be considered 
professional.  It was clear that dillo was hiding something.  Another thing 
that was fishy was one of the dillo candidates did not even give a campaign 
speech.  He deferred his time without even saying his name or anything, but 
yet he was elected.  Very fishy, isn't it?

To sum it up, K5GWF and dillo is to be blamed for all coordination problems 
in Texas because he truly controls the VHF FM Society.  Next time you are 
fed up with coordination issues, look up your nearest dillo repeater and get 
on there and tell K5GWF and the rest of the dillos just how pissed off you 
are.  Better yet, call K5GWF and tell him.  His home number is 972-306-2300 
and work is 469-737-6999.  Next time your application gets "lost," call 
K5GWF and let him know you are pissed.  Next time you open up the new ARRL 
repeater directory and see that your information has not been updated again 
for the 4th year in a row, call K5GWF and let him know you are pissed.  Next 
time you get deleted from a non-existant waiting list after being on there 
for 15, 20, 25 years, call K5GWF and let him know you are pissed.  Next time 
your ATV repeater is trashed with dillo links that were not supposed to be 
coordinated there, call K5GWF and ! let him know you are pissed.  Next time 
you are told that there are no pairs available but you know of repeaters 
that have been off for years, call K5GWF and let him know you are pissed.  
Next time you call, write or email your local coordinator for the 20th time 
with no response, call K5GWF and let him know you are pissed.  Next time a 
member of dillo shows up with a new pair and your club or friends have been 
waiting years and not heard anything, call K5GWF and let him know you are 
pissed.  Hell, down here in the Houston/Galvaston area there are several 
repeaters too close together that interfere with each other all time.  But 
you guessed it, they are not dillo repeaters.  Dillo has exclusive rights to 
at least 10-15 pairs across Texas.  No one outside of dillo can be 
coordinated on these pairs, period.  There is one dillo pair in a major city 
that accidentally got coordinated to a! non dillo ham.  I heard that after 
they figured out the mistake, dillo has tried to "buy back" this pair for 
thousands of dollars. Call K5GWF and let him know how you are pissed off you 
are about all of this crap.

The ONLY way honor and trust can be restored to the VHF FM Society is vote 
dillo out, period.  If a person in the VHF FM Society has ANY affiliation 
with dillo in any way, they need to be voted out.  We have another chance 
coming up next summer. I want to thank everyone who came and supported a 
voice for the rest of hams in Texas.  If all of you who came will just come 
back and bring 4 or 5 hams with you next year, we can reclaim frequency 
coordination from the dillo Borg and restore it back to the hams of Texas. I 
already have my hotel room booked. In another effort to help facilitate this 
I'm organizing buses from Houston.  I will be contacting several charter bus 
companies next week.  If you and your friends need a ride let me know.  We 
will run as many busses to Austin as we can fill.  I'll be in contact with 
the people who run summerfest to arrange for bus parking.  I'm also going to 
have the busses outfitted w! ith margarita machines for the celebration ride 
home.  Bus costs per person should be minimal.  If any of you can help 
volunteer with anything contact me.  We need someone to organize busses from 
Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Galveston, Waco, etc.  I will let you know 
with more details as I have them.

The reform directors have worked hard and endured an overwhelming amount of 
crap, lies, slander and smear against them just because they wanted to try 
to improve things for the rest of us.  We need to give them all of our 
support.  Let's kick some Borg butt next year.

73,

Bill Roberts

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