[K6NCG] Re: Your island exprtise

[SYLDES2 at aol.com]

Hi Desmond
I attended ET school back in 1953. In fact I designed the hand drawn K6NCG 
QSL you see on the website. I was active in the Ham club back then. When I was 
there they had a real nice setup. A military BC610 xmtr which could run 500W 
and a super pro rx. Also, we had a beam and tower. There were quite a few hams 
attending ET school back then and the club was very active. We worked a lot of 
DX. I graduated from there almost a year later and was assigned to the USS 
Winston AKA94.  I spent the rest of my  Navy time aboard that ship. We had 5 ETs 
aboard so we were well staffed and I wound up handling all the electronics 
inventory  ie: spare parts etc.  the xmtrs and receivers rarely broke down but 
most of the time keeping the Radars going was the main job. 

I was fortunate that I also had the opportunity to attend RM school in San 
Diego  and was a shipboard radio operator aboard the USS Bayfield APA33 before 
attending TI. Sorry, I cant help you about whats left at T.I. Any longer.  I 
heard they were going to make an amusement park on that big flat area. It 
certainly would  be a good use. I have no pix of my  time at the school 
unfortunately.  I didnt own a camera at that time.
I am just passing along the  few tidbits I have.  I had a lot of fun at ET 
school and spent a lot of my  free time at the club station.

I am now retired but have become a Ham Radio Cartoonist. I just published my  
first Ham radio cartoon book called "Hi Hi-A Collection of Ham Radio 
Cartoons." 112pg.  Im quite proud of how it turned out.  It is available from Lulu.com 
on the internet for $10.95 plus  shipping. I am still very active on all the 
bands (except 80M)

You can see a pix of my ship, the Winston AKA 94 on my ham radio website 
http://www.k9ya.org/w9cbt.  I did take a number of pix of my time aboard ship

If I can answer any other questions about the old K6NCG setup in the 50's 
contact me.

73
Dick Sylvan W9CBT  (Old ET3)
Glenview, IL  syldes2 at aol.com