[K6NCG] Discussion of K6NCG

Fri Jun 7 13:16:23 EDT 2013

Wow...Charlie.....how are you? I was in ETA and the ETB from Sept 65 til June 66. I was WB6 Fried Chicken Eater in those days. When I finished ETB School, my first set of orders was to go aboard a communications (spy) ship home ported in Guam. I needed a Top Secret clearance. They applied for it and waited and waited and waited until the orders got stale. Then I got my next set of orders to serve at the Nato base in Naples, Italy. It also needed a top secret clearance which they found in someone elses personnel file as it had been misfiled by a yeoman, which I really want to meet because for his mistake I spent the rest of my navy career in Naples Italy instead of being a prisoner of war in North Korea as a crew member of the USS Pueblo.

When I got to Naples Italy, I ran into Brian Satterlee WA5GEW, that I knew at K6NCG who is now a W6 living in the San Diego area with his Italian wife.

I ended up being assigned to a remote transmitter site that had about 25 personnel of which 12 were single and lived at the site including 2 cooks....the food was wonderful. The transmitter sight had 15 10KW output (4CX10000) transmitters that I was responsible for maintaining.

After the Navy I went to College and became a CPA. I am now retired and live in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, Mexico with my young Mexican wife.

Life is very good!

-----Original Message-----
>From: Charlie Kotan <Charlie at Kotan.com>
>Sent: Jun 7, 2013 9:27 AM
>To: K6NCG at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: [K6NCG] Discussion of K6NCG
>
>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
>
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