[K6NCG] new member

[Ronald Carman]

Thanks for the e-mail, Chip; I was at K6NCG in 1964 and then in 1965-66 when I got transferred to shore duty
at TI. (Boy was that hard to take after 6 months on a ship floating off the coast of Vietnam!)  I think the first class
PO you mention is Duane Schneider; he made chief in 1964.  Anyway, I looked at Dan (WM7W)'s web page and 
it was easy to recognize some of the folks in the pictures.  I need to write to him and tell him what a good job he
did too.  I took a bunch of photos and sent some to one person in charge of the K6NCG web site but to date he
never has put any of them up.  Oh well, there are some nice ones here.  Thanks for the good words.
73 - Ron, K5CXH
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chip Angle" <chip at anglelinear.com>
To: <k6ncg at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 5:38 PM
Subject: [K6NCG] new member


> K6NCG,
> 
> Oh boy does that bring back memories.  I was there from December (?) 
> 1962 until  Sept 20, 1963.   It saved me from those cold firefighting 
> watches at 4 AM.  It's hard to recall all the guys I met back then 
> but then but a few are "Doc" Beck on six meters, Vince W1OOW, Ken 
> K4OKZ and Duane the first class PO that had a hard time with the 
> code.  My old call was WA6GUY, General class and almost always 
> operated 40 meter CW on the ole HT37.  Who built the "TO keyer" (?) 
> that sometimes had a mind of its own?
> 
> I remember sitting at the front desk one Saturday or Sunday afternoon 
> and hearing the old tower come crashing down.  I'm not sure who 
> acquired it but the new 80 footer was nice.  I think we helped paint 
> it.  We had a 40 or 80 meter inverted Vee on that tower also.  The SF 
> harbor guys complained about the florescent light bulbs hanging from 
> it.........
> 
> We made Jacobs ladders from old 5KV transformers.  I recall the Mt 
> Talmapias Field Day effort one June.  A few of us would sometimes 
> stay up all Friday night after school and operate until Saturday 
> afternoon. I remember to ole 40 cup coffee maker too.  I once fell 
> asleep while talking to someone on 40 meter CW.  I woke up sending 
> gibberish not knowing how long I was asleep.  I always wondered who I 
> was talking (?) to and what he thought of my new form of Morse 
> code..... I still operate CW, even on 10 GHz, lots of fun!
> 
> I went to crypto school after ET A school and then to the fleet and 
> DE1026.  Had a good time there and finally learned how to trouble 
> shoot.  It's still is with me today as I got to be pretty good at it.
> 
> I got my Extra sometime in the 70s and switched my call to N6CA.  I 
> got into Oscar 6 and then VHF and up and have been very active in 
> microwaves ever since.  I think working for several years on the SPS 
> 10 and 6 radars and the SLR-1 ECM gear helped get my interest going. 
> I got out of the Canoe club in 1967 after a couple of  WesPac cruises 
> as an ETR2.  We are fortunate here in the Southwest to have many guys 
> interested in microwaves. My web site has much of the stuff I've done 
> in amateur radio since then, lots of fun all of these years.
> 
> I worked on FLIRs and laser communications for about 24 years the 
> became self employed; still doing that as Angle Linear producing 
> PHEMT front ends and filters and custom RF equipment; 
> http://www.anglelinear.com.
> 
> I have contacted Dave K4TO from time without knowing he was a K6NCG 
> guy around the time I was there.
> 
> Sure is nice to see the pictures of the old station at  
> http://www.qsl.net/k6ncg/ and WM7W Dan's web  page at  
> http://www.ussstoddard.org/k6ncg.htm.  I still have one of the 1960s 
> vintage K6NCG QSLs.
> 
> What ever happened to all of the QSLs that were above the door?
> 
> 73  Chip Angle N6CA
> http://www.ham-radio.com/n6ca
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