[GreenKeys] autostart nets and unattended Rx?

[gil smith]

Hi Randy:

Interesting story.  Say, you know it's never too late to find another 
28.  Maybe even a gearshift.

gil


At 01:06 PM 2/3/2005, Randy and Sherry Guttery wrote:

>Eugene Hertz Asked:
>
>>Been reading about autostart nets and was very curious about something. 
>>How successful were these autostart nets with unattended receiving?
>
>Back in the day (850 cycle shift) - a decent receiver could hold stable 
>copy for days on end without being touched.
>
>(Warning Sea Story):
>Back in the mid 70's, I was stationed aboard USS PROTEUS (AS 19) sitting 
>at Apra Harbor, Guam (tending boomers and other subs). As this was a 
>permanent station, the married sailors could bring their wives over - so 
>Sherry and I lived in Navy Housing on the Naval Station, Agana. One day we 
>had a general recall, all liberty, leave, etc. was canceled and we were 
>restricted on board the ship - which was on high alert.
>
>NOBODY had a clue what was happening, all we knew was that we were on high 
>alert - even the 52's at Anderson were on alert.
>
>After a few hours - Sherry called and told me what was going on - seems 
>Israel and Egypt were having one of their "incidents"... and not knowing 
>how things were to play out - the Pentagon had put all of the U.S. 
>Military on high alert..
>
>My Division Officer told the Department Head, who told the Captain. The 
>Captain the called COMNAVMARIANAS and told him. Needless to say - when 
>they found out that a swab's wife knew what was going on before "the word" 
>came down "official channels" - you know what hit the fan.  Sherry had a 
>couple of officers "move in" with her for a while - they sat and watched 
>UPI Rangoon as it relayed the "activities".
>
>Point of the story - this was an R-390A feeding a URA-8 keying a model 28 
>- with good copy for three days - nary a touch to the dials (Rangoon was a 
>1000+ miles - so there were the occasional glitch due to atmospherics). 
>The R-390A is very stable - and the URA-8 very forgiving - and that 28 
>(which I have kicked myself MANY times for letting go of it) was in like 
>new condition - even had a three-speed transmission (which of course had 
>nothing to do with solid copy - but much to do with my foot firmly applied 
>to my backside!).
>
>There's a picture of the setup as it was then here (identified as the 
>"home entertainment center"):
>
>http://www.mississippi.net/~comcents/tendertale.com/tti/tti-42.html
>
>what's left of that first message (I think the rest is still here 
>somewhere - it is, after all - nearly 30 years old!). You can still see 
>the reference to the submarine tender - that is (was) PROTEUS:
>
>http://www.mississippi.net/~comcents/alert.jpg
>
>Just a little history - as received via RTTY...
>
>best regards...
>--
>randy guttery
>
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