[K6NCG] The OLD building (bldg. 127)

[billgibson at fuse.net]

To TC Dailey and all,

The old shack (Bldg. 127) was located just northwest of Avenue Palms and 9th streets on what is now Perimeter Road. If you use Google Earth or Vitrual Earth you can see the “bump” in the shoreline jetties where the shack once stood. The ‘60s photos from <www.qsl.net/k6ncg> are great and bring back many memories of the old shack.

The color photos from Dan Withers, WM7W website: <www.ussstoddard.org/k6ncg.htm> are even better and show the Collins S-Line station and a K6NCG club meeting in the old shack, plus a view down Avenue Palms from atop the tower. Thanks Dan for making these available! I spent many fun-filled hours at that S-Line desk. If we had lowered that window above the desk, it would have given a perfect view of Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge.

I was on TI from May, 1965 until March, 1966 and joined K6NCG 6/65 and graduated from ET-A school 3/66. I just missed knowing Dan Withers. In the Fall of ’65 we took town the beam from the 105’ tower for cleaning and reinstalled it. I didn’t mind the height so much, but the wind up there was horrific!


Bill Gibson
K4UC



>On Monday, May 25, 2009 3:39 PM    
>TC Dailey <daileyservices at qwest.net> wrote:

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>The building (shown on 60's B&W photos) WAS set back from the shoreline 
>(covered with large sized stones).  I was surrounded by chain link fence, 
>and was just up from "Surfside Six" which was a Radarman School (RD-A) site. 
>The RD students would often pull "guard" watches at Surfside Six, and when 
>the fog came in, it could be pretty "brisk" out there... not to mention, 
>kind of spooky and lonely.  If you look at the picture on the website, 
>showing a couple of later guys working on the tower sections (new one), you 
>can see the SS-6 tower in the background. 
 
>In about August of 1962, I got my Novice at the old QTH, and a couple of 
>those ne'r-do-wells (who went on to become Limited Duty Officers) took me 
>out INTO the water (but, not very far), had me sit in a washtub, and 
>convinced me that I was to be floated out into the bay, then brought back - 
>I was admonished to SIT VERY STILL... I damned sure DID.  It's been a few 
>years since then, and neither of the perps remembers it, but I vividly 
>recall the peanut butter and mustard on my face, not to mention the nautical 
>adventure. 
 
>Look in the color pics, and you'll see one with several guys examining the 
>new tower parts that had arrived, just before I left for San Diego. 
 
>Tom Dailey 
>WØEAJ