[K6NCG] Discussion of K6NCG

[Charlie Kotan]

I was at ETA on TI from Oct 65 - Jul 66, and stood watches at the Ham Shack
for something over half that time.  I don't recall any ladies, either.  I
remember becoming a resonant mechanical system with my head bouncing off the
top bunk bottom when some "pals" unloaded a CO2 fire extinguisher under my
blanket one weekend morning to invite me to breakfast.  I enjoyed phone
patches with Westpac, the big linear, and learning RTTY.  I have some
printouts still, somewhere of stuff like "application for a date with a
sailor", which were great fun with my gal friends.  Became WN0PCW @ TI, and
transferred to nuke school Bainbridge, MD, so several of us went to
Baltimore for ham and commercial testing. Got my Commercial Radiotelephone
with shipboard radar endorsement. Passed the general written, but never
bothered with the code.  I stayed a Tech WA0PCW, until the code went away,
and I got General, then passed the Extra.  Call now K0TAN.  Did 9+ years
Navy on two submarines and a Westpac on the Enterprise.  I've been a
computer guy since late 70's and just moved to Lake Havasu City, AZ last
year with my bride of 30-some years.

 

73's, Charlie Kotan K0TAN