[GreenKeys] Telewriter

[Bruce Gentry]

One thing I learned quickly and painfully was the Air Force was 
extremely willing to bend any rules it wanted  for it's convenience. 
That could be good, however, if a piece of excess equipment showed up 
with no papers. It was easier in many cases to let someone take it home 
than explain why it was there. By 1973, with Vietnam quickly winding 
down, getting an R-390 or even a KWM-2 was not impossible with the right 
connections and the correct tribute- usually potent and alcoholic.   I 
returned from southeast Asia to a base where I could not stand the other 
people in the radio shop. It was  arranged for me to go to work in the 
navaids shop, and after a few months, my job and pay code was changed 
from radio to navaids.

       Bruce Gentry, KA2IVY



On 4/16/18 5:10 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
> Sounds about like a man I went to high school with. He joined the Air Force
> about 1970 when you could get out if they did not put in what you signed up
> for.  He signed up for electronics and they shipped him to Alaska painting
> radar towers.  Seems he went to the base commander and the commander pulled
> out the book and showed him, Electronics, Radar, Radar towers, Radar tower
> maintenance, painting of radar towers. "Son you are in electronics by the
> book, now get back out and start painting".
>   
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bruce Gentry
> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2018 3:50 PM
> To: GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Telewriter
>
> At the time I was in the Air Force, ground radio people were responsible
> for fax machines, and the Telautograph was included with them. Although
> we did not receive any specific instruction, PA systems, theater sound
> systems, two-way radios for the engineering squadrons and air police,
> electronic organs, phonographs and tape recorders were also our work. In
> reality, except for the fax machines, 99% of our work was the
> trans-pacific HF equipment and airfield communications. Ground radio had
> one of the widest and most interesting work definitions, but in reality,
> we rarely got to work on the enjoyable stuff and instead had constant
> service calls on worn out WW2 and Korean War junk that should have gone
> to Fair Radio in 1955.
>
>
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