[K6NCG] Discussion of K6NCG

billgibson at fuse.net billgibson at fuse.net
Sat Jun 8 14:14:40 EDT 2013 

Yes, there was some 2-mtr AFSK experimental stuff going on at various times. The RTTY room was only twenty or so feet away from the 2-mtr station so it would have been an easy interface to make. I do remember one of the guys trying to build a DSB exciter for 2-meters but never got it working. Good times just trying stuff though , especially when s omeone would bring in a few  cold 807s. We had a LTJ G member with a car that made "contraband" easy. I don't remember a single surprise inspection of the ham shack. 

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 
Subject: Re: [K6NCG] Discussion of K6NCG 

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" 
<k6ncg at mailman.qth.net> 
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) 
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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 
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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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