[K6NCG] K6NCG Digest, Vol 23, Issue 7

[Glenn AE0Q]

Hi Bill,

Yes, you are thinking of another place on the island!

 The ham club was given a larger building where the tower mark is
shown in 1970 or early 71, it was a long, low building that used to be
a classroom of some sort. Those are the pictures from the 70's on the
K6NCG web site.

 We had no tower there, and Public Works attempted to move the big
tower from the old hamshack that you are thinking of.  They picked up
the tower in the middle with a crane.  It promptly collapsed and all
the antennas on it crashed into the ground.  When I got there in  1971
one of the elements of a yagi was stuck in the ground all the way up
to the center of the boom.

 Public Works then gave us the new tower that was a big 4-sided free
standing thing, and bought new yagis for it (a 204BA and 10/15
duobander).  We had to paint the tower and they erected it at the new
building, and put the antennas on it.

73 - Glenn AE0Q

Ex CTM2, at ET 'A'  School 1971-1972

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Bill Axelrod <bill at axelrods.org> wrote:
> Help please.
>
> Guess this old man's memory isn't what it used to be.  As I look at the
> Google Earth view of the K6NCG tower from the W6NMC site, well that's not
> what I remember from when I was a member of the team that refurbished and
> erected the K6NCG tower back in 1962.
>
> As I remember, the tower went up next to the old K6NCG building near the
> shore line on the San Francisco side of the island.
>
> Is my memory that far off or am I thinking about another place and time?
>
> 73...   Bill Axelrod ND9E (and K3DDW back in '62 at K6NCG)


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