Fred Stark, KA2YLZ, Silent Key

The “plate off” switch has been hit for the last time: Fred’s favorite transmitter, the Collins 20V-3.

Rest In Peace, Fred KA2YLZ

Fred Stark, KA2YLZ

I was just told that on Tuesday, 6 December 2022, my good friend and great friend of the Liberty Net, Frederick K. Stark, KA2YLZ, of West Taghkanic, New York, died of a heart attack at his home. I can hardly believe that he is gone. I had just spoken to him the day before. I became worried when he didn’t show up for his pre-Liberty Net concert program on the 10th, and tried calling him both Sunday and today, eventually reaching his nephew and getting the sad news tonight. Fred was 69 years old.

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W1WCR, Victor Misek, SK

Left to right: Sue Misek (Vic’s wife); WB4AIO’s older daughter and son; Kevin Strom, WB4AIO; and Vic Misek, W1WCR

The Liberty Net and Health: A Conversation with W1WCR”]
Liberty Net June 19 Tribute to W1WCR, SK”]
An Interview with W1WCR”]
W1WCR QSO with KB2DMD”]
W1WCR on the Informal Liberty Net (with brief unid jamming by KG4ZXC)”]
3950.net stream announcement re W1WCR, SK”]
W1WCR clip collection”]

W1WCR, 1929-2021

The co-founder of the Liberty Net in 1974, the regular Net Control Station for the Liberty Net for 45 years, and a great fighter for freedom of speech on the amateur airwaves, Victor Misek, PE, of Hudson, New Hampshire, died on Saturday, 12 June 2021, shortly after receiving the COVID vaccine. He had been suffering from sarcopenia for the last two years. He was a staunch believer in advanced life extension protocols and lived a full and profoundly productive life for almost 92 years. He first QSOed with Kevin, WB4AIO on the Liberty Net in 1978, and worked closely with Kevin (recording the Net, documenting jammer activity, doing interviews, and other projects) from 1987 until his final days, doing his last on-air interview/QSO with Kevin in 2021.

Victor was a lifelong supporter of racial-nationalism and a staunch opponent of the conversion of America into a non-White country. He was also an opponent of the Israeli and other Middle Eastern meddling in American politics, and the foreign wars that resulted. His motto, which he promoted extensively on the Liberty Net, was “Get America out of the Middle East, and get the Middle East out of America.”

When certain malicious operators and government thugs tried to smear WB4AIO, Vic responded with an open letter including the following statement:

I am Victor Misek, a retired professional engineer in the state of New Hampshire and holder of Amateur Extra radio license W1WCR. I am the author of the Beverage Antenna Handbook (copyright 1977, 1987 and 1997, first second and third editions) and have been registered as a professional engineer in Ohio and New Hampshire. My inventions appear in 19 US Patents. For many years I held a Top Secret clearance granted by the FBI because of my work on Electronic Countermeasure Systems. My ECM work was done at Sanders Associates, Inc. starting in 1955.

I have known Kevin Alfred Strom, WB4AIO, since 1987, and have interacted with him both on and off the air innumerable times since then. He, his fiancée, and his children have been guests in my home.

He has provided technical and other support for a amateur radio net, the Liberty Net, of which I am the Net Control Station, for many years, setting up a Web page, news blog, interactive chat room, phone patch system, and online streaming services for the net, which allowed amateur radio operators who were hospitalized or disabled or otherwise prevented from normal on-air participation to hear, enjoy, and take part in the Net. He has been unrelenting in helping other amateur radio operators use these facilities, not only with no personal remuneration but at evidently quite substantial cost to him both in time and money. He has also served as volunteer NCS for the Net and other nets when the regular NCS was unavailable.

He has also, without compensation of any kind, helped me by recovering the composition files of the book I authored, The Beverage Antenna Handbook, from an obsolete computer file system and converting them to modern PDF files, so that the book will continue to be available to future generations.

In all of my dealings and associations with Mr. Strom over a period of 30 years, both on and off the air, he has shown himself to be a man of utmost integrity and truthfulness.

When Marty, N2IRJ, began a dishonorable campaign to ban WB4AIO from the Liberty Net, Vic strongly disapproved of and opposed Marty’s banning efforts and behind-the-scenes slander campaign, saying in a 17 May 2020 email posted to KA2PTE’s Liberty Net email discussion list:

“There are evil people out to smear Kevin. Fake News isn’t just about Trump. Ban the Kevin-haters if you want to test your banning skills…. V.”

And that just about says all that needs to be said on that topic!

In his early years at Case Western Reserve University, Vic worked his way through school as a broadcast engineer at 50,000-Watt clear channel AM station WGAR in Cleveland, Ohio. Victor was a PhD-level engineer, and held patents for 19 inventions granted from the mid-1970s to the early 2000s. He was also the author of the ground-breaking Beverage Antenna Handbook for radio amateurs and corresponded with Harold Beverage himself in relation to his research.

He always had a commanding signal on 160 and 75 meters — a real asset for a Net Control Station. He used homebrew large-conductor (8 ga.) 1000-ohm open wire line and a homebrew tuner, feeding a 165-foot doublet at approximately 90 to 100 feet above sloping ground, under which he had constructed an extensive copper ground screen to reduce earth losses. The result was a continent-spanning signal with a high signal-to-noise ratio.

Victor was not only a near-genius, but he was a truly kind man, and welcomed me and my wife and family into his home on numerous occasions.

Ave Victor, you will never be forgotten!

Wanted: August 2018 Recordings of the Liberty Net

by Kevin Strom, WB4AIO

BECAUSE OF problems beyond my control, we are missing three recordings of the Liberty Net from our archive. If any of our listeners and readers have recordings of the Liberty Net and Midweek Liberty Net from the net sessions of 8 August, 11 August, or 15 August of 2018, we would very much appreciate receiving a copy so that they can be added to our archive.

Just drop us a line at the contact form here at https://3950.net/contact/ and we’ll make arrangements to get the file or files from you. Thanks!

Liberty Net: November 14, 2015

Liberty-Net---audio-mixing-consoleby Kevin Strom, WB4AIO

THE 3950.NET audio stream has just been upgraded. Our new streaming server has several advantages over the old one:

1. It has far less latency, meaning that the sound you hear will only be about ten seconds behind real time, instead of around 50 seconds as with the old server.

2. The transition between our recordings and our live feed during net times should be much quicker and seldom require a restart of your player, unlike the old server which created considerable delays and often required a player restart.

If you are hearing a message stating that we have switched to a new server — instead of hearing our actual stream — that means you are still listening to the old stream. All you need to do to get the new stream is reload our https://3950.net/live page or, if you’re using a media player, simply follow the links at the bottom of that page and update your player’s bookmarks. The old server will be going offline in a week or so and the old URLs will go dead at that time.

There is extra expense associated with this server — please help us pay for it by making a donation!

Listen: Liberty Net 11/14″]

Here’s my digest of — and take on — a small selection of the ideas brought up on this week’s net:

• European civilization obviously has a Muslim problem. But it would be more correct to call it a Semite problem — because without the Jewish oligarchs and media barons throwing open our gates, making war on innocent Muslims in their own homelands, and teaching Whites a race-blind “morality” that prevents us from resisting, the invaders wouldn’t be in our nations at all. (23 minutes)

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Liberty Net: August 22, 2015

Liberty-Net---WB4AIO_AIO-Labs-RF-ammeterby Kevin Strom, WB4AIO

LAST WEEK, I told you about SDR transceivers and receivers and their many advantages for amateur radio listening and transmitting. Today I’ll add some links so you can see what’s available direct from the sources:

http://www.flexradio.com/amateur-products/flex-6000-signature-series/

https://apache-labs.com/al-products/1026/ANAN-100-HF—6M-100W-ALL-MODE-SDR-TRANSCEIVER.html

http://microtelecom.it/perseus/

This isn’t an exhaustive list, far from it — SDR development and availability is constantly expanding — so do your own research.

Listen: Liberty Net 8/22″]

Here’s a brief summary of — and my comment on — some of the issues discussed on the net this week:

• A terrorist attack in Belgium (by a non-White, natch, who had recently slithered in from Morocco) was recently thwarted by three brave men who took matters into their own hands. But there is a much better solution: No non-Whites should be permitted in White countries; problem solved. (10 minutes)

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Liberty Net: August 15, 2015

Liberty-Net---Johnson-Viking-Matchboxby Kevin Strom, WB4AIO

SOMETHING THAT both amateurs and SWLs should consider is the purchase of a software-defined radio (or SDR). An SDR consists of a direct-conversion mixer, or direct analogue-to-digital converter, coupled to software which can manipulate the digitized stream of ones and zeros perfectly representing the RF waveforms — and give you mathematically perfect demodulation (or modulation) of any mode: SSB, CW, AM, DSB, et cetera — without any of the noise and distortion buildup inevitable in conventional transceivers. Receiving on an SDR has been described as like having a film peeled off your eyes and perceiving reality clearly for the first time. Transmitting is equally clean. On top of that, the dynamic range and perfectly-rectangular filters are excellent. Filter edges can be dragged with your mouse, too, so you can have perfect high fidelity wideband audio, or narrow DX filtration, depending on what you want at any given moment. Good units are available from Anan, Flexradio Systems, Perseus, and many others.

Listen: Liberty Net 8/15″]

Here’s a brief digest of — and my take on — some of the ideas discussed on the Liberty Net this session:

• Happy birthday to Nyssa, K4HZY, who has been a welcome weekly commenter on the Liberty Net for many years now through the N2IRJ phone patch. (11 minutes)

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Liberty Net: August 8, 2015

Liberty-Net---N2IRJ-phone-patch-VU-meterby Kevin Strom, WB4AIO

OPEN-WIRE BALANCED line is far superior to coaxial cable as far as loss is concerned — especially when the SWR between the line and your antenna is high. But what do you do when you want to feed an unbalanced antenna — like a vertical or inverted L — with balanced line? Conventional wisdom says it can’t be done. But it can. I developed a system using two current baluns and a conventional T-network antenna coupler which allows open-wire feed of my 150′ elevated-radial inverted L antenna. I can go on any frequency from 1.8 to 30 MHz with a perfect match and low loss, and tune the system in the shack. Write if you want to know more!

Listen: Liberty Net 8/8″]

Here’s my summary of and commentary on some of the concepts brought forth on the Liberty Net this session:

• To “prove” that Donald Trump was wrong about illegal immigrant criminals, one media talking head recently opined that “most of the FBI Ten Most Wanted are White people.” But upon looking closer, you’ll discover that eight of the ten are actually Mestizos from Central America, which the regime’s FBI falsely categorizes as White. (18 minutes)

• Since they want to misclassify Mestizos as Whites, maybe Whites should sign up for race-based preferences and benefits by checking the “Hispanic” box on government and employment forms. (23 minutes)

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Liberty Net: August 1, 2015

Liberty-Net---dentron_mt-3000aby Kevin Strom, WB4AIO

THE LIBERTY NET has survived jamming, government intimidation, and intruders whose agenda was to derail and destroy the net — and it has come out victorious over them all since 1974. Here’s to another 41 years!

Listen: Liberty Net 8/1″]

Here’s my summary of and commentary on some of the concepts brought up on the Liberty Net this week:

• The cuckservative meme has really taken off and is now one of the most popular ideas on the Internet — one wag even re-dubbed the disgusting Israel-firster Mike Huckabee “Mike Cuckabee.” Cuckabee supports the Jewish state with fervor and billions of dollars and other people’s blood — but would probably have a meltdown if anyone asked him to support his own people. (1 hour 35 minutes)

• In Greece, as in Ukraine and innumerable other White countries, CIA- and Soros-funded NGOs are working furiously and spending billions to flood the country with non-White “migrants.” (1 hour 38 minutes)

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Liberty Net: July 25, 2015

Liberty-Net---Hallicrafters_Sky_Travelerby Kevin Strom, WB4AIO

THE LIBERTY NET exemplifies the purpose of the amateur radio service: It serves, beyond any doubt, the public interest, convenience, and necessity. It’s a way for amateurs to share ideas and experiences in a way that no other communications medium can match.

Listen: Liberty Net 7/25″]

Here’s my summary of and take on some of the ideas brought up on the Liberty Net this session:

• We’ve already ripped our country and civilization apart by importing Semitic religions — so why add another Semitic religion, Islam, to the mix? Sounds like a guarantee of bringing the all the Semites’ perennial blood feuds into our borders. As is said quite often on the Liberty Net, the US needs to get out of the Middle East, and the Middle East needs to get out of the US (and that means Torah and Talmud believers along with Koran believers). (10 minutes)

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Liberty Net: July 18, 2015

Liberty-Net---Drake-T4XBby Kevin Strom, WB4AIO

THE LIBERTY NET is one of the few places that allows expression of precisely those ideas that the ethnically-distinct oligarchs don’t want us to know.

Listen: Liberty Net 7/18″]

Here’s my summary of and take on a few of the ideas brought up on the Liberty Net this time:

• When, so many people ask, will America become America again? The answer may be one you don’t want to hear: When White Americans learn that nations are biological entities — not geographic or ideological ones. (7 minutes)

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