[GreenKeys] Brecom

[Victor Blackwell]

It seemed like maybe 1962, about a year before Kennedy was assassinated and
maybe a few months before Drake introduced the TR-3 at the Dayton Hamfest
when It was still at the hotel in downtown Dayton.  I did not get all the
details until I interviewed for a job with the USIA many year later.  One of
the persons interviewing me kept repeating my name out loud like he was
trying to remember something.  Then on one interview he told me he had an
interesting story to tell me.  Then he told all.  He he.  I did not even
know any government employee would have even known my name.  The interview
occurred about the same time the VOA was considering taking the Bethany
relay station off line.  They were going to replace the relay with
satellites.  I told them that the satellite relays would be easier to jam
than the high power transmitters at Bethany.  They kept Bethany on for a
good number of years after this.  The people who worked there wanted to save
the place.   It's a small world.  I am glad to hear about this from other
parts of the system.

Rockwell was the CE for WLW at the time and Dick Walker of VOA interviewed
me.  They have both since passed.

Vic  AD8K  ex W8VST  On rtty in 1957

Bob Drake owned a model 26 but never used it.  It just sat under a bench in
the lab.  And I discovered the RTTY on LW when I was giving a Collins 51-j4
the old drop test for stability.  I heard the warble on the carrier before
the receiver slipped out my hands.  The beat note of other BC stations was
clear as a bell, rock solid.  I would love to live those days over again.

Vic