[K6NCG] Discussion of K6NCG

[billgibson at fuse.net]

Wow! It really hurts that I can 't remember names from the club circa 1965/1966 but like most of you guys I spent every spare moment I had down at the shack - even lunch most days. I do remember Michael the "Fried Ch icken Eater" very well but can't recall a face to go along with the name and call sign. I also spent a lot of time in the RTTY room of building 127 (w asn't Bldg . 318 the new s hack in the 70's?)  Who remembers the 2-meter rig back next to the Head? I also spent time working the local bay area hams on 2-meter A3 phone but QSOs were rare.  Another K6NCG club member and I built a PA system using Push-Pull 6L6's for the Radarman barracks, we cobbled it together from parts we found in the shack's stockroom including a carbon mic with a PTT button on top. The wife and I visited TI in 2004 and I was surprised to find many of the classroom buildings still there. The only thing left of the old shack were some broken pieces of the concrete floor that the seabees poured decades ago. 

Bill, K4UC (WB 4CEP then) 
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From: "Michael S. Mitchell" <w6rw at earthlink.net> 
To: "Discussion of K6NCG" <k6ncg at mailman.qth.net>, K6NCG at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Friday, June 7, 2013 1:16:23 PM 
Subject: Re: [K6NCG] Discussion of K6NCG 

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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