[K6NCG] New K6NCG Web Site

[Bob Snyder]

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the kind words about the new website.

Your experience sounds pretty similar to mine. I was an ETN assigned to 
USS Ticonderoga, CVS-14, and spent many an hour atop the mast while at sea.

One especially hair-raising time a shipmate and I were sent up to repair 
the TACAN antenna which was the highest antenna on the ship. We found 
that all of the screws had backed out of a drive gear that controlled 
the transmitted azimuth information used by the ship's aircraft to find 
their way back after a mission. I looked at it and the screws seemed 
impossible to get at, and I pronounced that it was not fixable underway. 
But my friend went ahead and fixed it anyway!

For any who might have missed my earlier email, the new site is here: 
http://www.qsl.net/w6cp/k6ncg

73,

Bob W6CP


On 07/08/2013 08:37 AM, billgibson at fuse.net wrote:
> Hi Bob,
> I just returned from vacation and visited the new website, nice job on construction! I really enjoyed seeing the old
> shack again and it brought back many memories. I can remember when I volunteered for PM on the rotor and beam.
>
> After leaving TI, I was assigned to the USS Kearsarge CVS-33 in Long Beach. I was bragging to the OE Division
> officer one day about doing work on the tower on TI. Soon thereafter I found myself hanging from a safety belt from
> the starboard clover-leaf arm (more than 200 feet abov e the water) replacing an N-connector on one of the UHF
> comm antennas. One hell of an experience, especially for ETR!
>
> Bill - K4UC
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Bob Snyder" <bob.snyder at cox.net>
> To: "Discussion of K6NCG" <k6ncg at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2013 8:23:26 PM
> Subject: [K6NCG] New K6NCG Web Site
>
> Fellow K6NCG members,
>
> I have just finished creating a new website with lots of photos of the
> old K6NCG station ca. 1969-70. I've had the photos laying around for
> years and been threatening to post them for a while now, but I've
> finally done it.
>
> There are photos of Bldg 318, some of the members who haunted the
> station back then, operating positions, the tower and antennas, and lots
> more. There are links to the existing K6NCG related web sites that I am
> aware of, but I'll be glad to add links to sites that I'm not aware of.
>
> Here's a link to the new site: http://www.qsl.net/w6cp/k6ncg
>
> Thanks to those who offered hosting, but I decided to do it myself. No
> one to blame but me now :-)
>
> Any comments or feedback is appreciated. I hope you enjoy the site!
>
> 73,
>
> Bob W6CP Ex. K7YDM
>