[K6NCG] Discussion of K6NCG
billgibson at fuse.net
billgibson at fuse.net
Sat Jun 8 13:05:50 EDT 2013
. . . maybe the AN/TDQ, RCK VHF Xmtr/Rcvr pair? I remember someone brought in a Heathkit "Lunchbox" Two-er one evening and we worked him from the shack parking lot, across the bay bridge into downtown f risco before we lost the signal. Not too bad for a half-watt regenerative rig. During what years was Don with the club?
Bill - K4UC
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From: "TC Dailey" <daileyservices at qwest.net>
To: "Discussion of K6NCG" <k6ncg at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, June 7, 2013 11:49:46 PM
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That transmitter was the AN/TDQ something-or-other.. played with it,
m'self... we got AFSK going on it too... way back in '62 (If you've looked
at the pictures, of Don... you see a sign that says NURK NURK... actually
the callsign for "ALL SHIPS - ALL COMMANDS" is NERK NERK, which is the first
thing our old Model 19 cranked out... it became a nickname for Don.
Tom - WØEAJ
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From: <billgibson at fuse.net>
To: "Michael S. Mitchell" <w6rw at earthlink.net>; "Discussion of K6NCG"
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Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 1:55 PM
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>
> 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)
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> 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
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>
> 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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