[K6NCG] Re: [K6NCG]

[TC Dailey]

Greetings, Gang...

I enjoyed the new B&W pix.  Ah yes, RBA, RBC, & URR receivers, and that
venerable AN/|TDQ something-or-other 2m Am transmitter that I was forbidden
to use while a Novice (we could get on 2m AM then, but you wouldn't speed
your code up, that way).  The TDQ xmtr is what Don Hickle is using for the
ORIGINAL RTTY experiments, as shown in the "60's" shots.  After ET-A school
and RM-A school...... long story...... I actually sat in front of a couple
of RBB's & an RBC for a while, working QRQ CW circuits.  They were indeed a
"boatanchor", capable of holding down the USS Coral Sea or similar craft.
Hey... anybody in 1963 or later ever see my old EICO scope that I left
behind?  I bought it at a pawn-shop on Howard St., but it was tough to stick
into a seabag, so left it at the shack.  It was a greater calling for it,
there, anyway.

Initial 440 fun was done by Bill Axlerod, using some Radiosonde xmtrs (think
they used a 955 tube).

Anybody remember our Sunday evening sked with KC4USN? (Antartica, not a new
no-code).  We'd just overhauled the Mosley beam, but when it was put back
up, somehow the drain holes ended up on the TOP, instead of the BOTTOM.  It
rained like crazy that night, and when we tried to load it up, "she's a no
work so pretty good"... somebody stuck a 1/4 wave for 20m piece of pipe on
top of a coke bottle (on the roof) leaned over on the railing, and we fed it
with RG-8 (at least that was the consensus... no markings).  We were 20/s9
with them... ran all their patches, and after it quit raining... the "40
degree pipe-angled-vertical" wouldn't work at all.

Tom Dailey - WA�EAJ  (WN�EAJ back then)