[CW] 2012 Visit to KPH Last Commercial Radiotelegraph CW Station

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

ABCOOKS,

I believe you, but all I can offer is that what you experienced was
vastly different than what others have reported.
As a word of comment, if you would allow, recently I came into
posession of some manuals for ship radio equipment, I contacted
Richard "RD" Dillman several times by email asking if he wanted those
and another book, but repeatedly I never received a reply.

But then suddenly, I received a reply and they had the space in their
library for the manuals.  They were modern ITT/Mackay manuals - one
was listed for sale at $75.00 because it is so large.

I thought someone didn't like me, but it wasn't true, but it sure felt
like it when I thought  I was being ignored.

Sometimes people against their usual nature are short with people,
catch me on a very bad day and that will probably happen, to my regret
because I do not like being like that because I have been on the
receiving end, but I have failed in this, and i will fail in this
again, being human.

73

DR

On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 12:33 PM Steve WD8DAS via CW <cw at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
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> "abqcooks at aol.com" wrote:
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> >But don't expect a friendly warm welcome from the head guy...
> >Won't waste my gas to go back and be treated like dirt.
>
> I had a very positive experience - I was much more warmly welcomed at KPH than at any of the ham clubs I've visited as a newcomer.
>
> My visit on Saturday started at the transmitter site breakfast gathering, then I looked around the transmitter, rack room, and shop.  Then the group split up - some headed out to do antenna system repairs, and others to each site for the day's operations.  I drove up to the receive site and was shown around and watched operations for a while, chatting with the Chief Operator Richard RD as he ran KPH and KSM, and the amateur operating K6KPH.  I was offered and accepted the opportunity to sit the circuit for an hour or so as I mentioned in an earlier email.
>
> If I lived in that area I'd join the group and pitch in with repairs and operations.  I live in Wisconsin, though...
>
> Which site did you visit?  The fellow in charge of the transmitter site when I was on-site seemed a very quiet, keep-to-himself type. That might seem unwelcoming I suppose.
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> I wasn't a complete stranger so maybe that changed my experience - I've known one of the guys, Bill RK, from our many years working for the same broadcast company (but at opposite ends of the country).  But I was a stranger to everyone else.
>
> At the receive site I watched the operators interact with drop-in visitors (complete strangers) all afternoon - they were welcomed and given a tour with interpretation (since most were not radio people, just general tourists visiting the park).  I did not observe any negativity or impatience with those visitors.
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> It amused me that some of the younger visitors were more interested in the dial telephone on the wall than anything else.  It was a novelty they could relate to I guess.
>
>
> Steve
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