[GreenKeys] Navy 82B1 TTY switching system photo - 1959

[joeduerbusch]

Right out of bootcamp I was stationed a Naval District Washington DC in the
Navy Yard in 1967.  I was striking for CYN3 (communications yeoman 3rd
class).
When I got my TS Clearance they sent me up to NCS Washington in Cheltenham
MD for training on the model 26 crypto machine.  I was only there for 1
day.  But during lunch I went down to the Navy MARS station.
It was in a building where all the rombes antennas terminated.  They were
no longer being used and the Mars station was using a Hygain LP.  I
remember the rows and rows of Model 28's printing out important messages.
After I left DC, I was transferred to NCS Iceland.  There I worked in Torn
Tape Relay (I was a tape ape!).  I also worked in MainCom.

I then got transferred to the USS INTREPID CVS-11 which just pulled in the
Philadelphia Navy Ship Yards for 9 months of repairs.  I worked in the
comcenter at  the Ship Yards while the ship was being repaired.
We were still using Model 28 ASR at this time.  I got my Novice ticket on
the ship in 1969 during training in GITMO.
I got out in 1970 and went to work for a Japanese trading company exporting
F-4 from McDonnell Douglas here in St. Louis as a teletypist.  I worked 3
to 7 PM 5 days a week for 5 years while I went to college.  Mostly cutting
tape on a Model 28 ASR or Model 32 ASR (TELEX).  Then in 1975 I got my own
model 15 KSR.  The rest is history.  I have been on RTTY for now over 40
years.

Joe K0BX




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On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Roy Morgan <k1lky68 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Dec 28, 2015, at 2:16 PM, Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > <
> http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/technology/communications/computers---teletypewriter-networks/usn-710439-us-navy-communications-being-handled-by-the-nation-s-.html
> >
> >
> > Zillions of 28RT units -
>
> Holy Relays, Batman, that’s COMPLICATED!
>
> There must be a zillion wires in that place.  It looks like all the
> switching is done with relays.
>
> I had not heard much about Cheltenham, MD.  It was a the home of the
> Communications Station Washington, DC:
> http://www.virhistory.com/navy/commsta/chelt.htm
>
> Which web page has a this prophetic quote from the 1969 fifty-year
> celebration:
>
> "With the vast improvements in technology, it takes a very vivid
> imagination to predict what our station will be in another fifty years.”
>
> That second fifty years of the place is almost up.
>
> Roy
>
> Seasons Greetings to all!
>
> Roy Morgan
> k1lky68 at gmail.com
> K1LKY Since 1958
>
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