[K6NCG] K6NCG Digest, Vol 23, Issue 8 Which tower where?

[Bill Axelrod]

 Guess that solves the mystery.  One old shack and one new shack and tower.
The club was operating when I arrived at ET-A school early in 1962.  The
original tower went up with a lot of elbow grease later that year.


73...   Bill ND9E and former K3DDW back in '62

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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


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You guys are right.

 From what I've been able to learn, the original shack was on the shoreline
in a building originally used to calibrate Geiger counters.  
That site was near what is now housing, about a block from me, at the corner
of Gateview and Westside.

The site that I was able to find was the shack from the seventies onward as
far as I can tell.  The tower base was more readable when I first saw it a
few years ago and the date on it looked like Feb 72.  So my best guess is
that the tower was put in around the same time as the shack moved although
it could have been earlier because I think the tower was donated from
another base.  I've learned all of this from the internet and people's
sites.

What I'd really like to do is start working on a history of the club.  I
tried to start at the beginning but I'm having a hard time figuring out when
the club started.

My invitation is still open to anyone who wants to come, I'll provide a tour
of the island and Pete will probably join us.  We're both trying to get a
few of you out here to do field day with us, with just us two it's been hard
to put out the signal you're looking for.  I'm not likely to be out here
much longer and the baby comes about a month after Field Day.

DCT
KC6VHG (Mason Ct)