[K6NCG] Discussion of K6NCG

Sat Jun 8 14:56:54 EDT 2013

    Hi, Bill & gang - I may be the LTJG with the car; I got acquainted with 
K6NCG early in my Navy career and was
delighted when I received orders transferring me from that piece of junk ship I 
was on back to TI for shore duty!
I had gone to Damage Control school at TI from August to October 1964 (which is 
when I met Gina) and returned
to TI in Oct. 1965 and stayed there till May 1966 when my time was up.  By that 
time I was so anxious to get
back home to Oklahoma (where I'm from originally) that I kind of forgot about 
everything else.  I got my private
pilot license in 1966 just before I left to go back home; a few guys from the 
shack did go up with me a time or two.
As time went by I got my commercial license, instrument rating, flight 
instructor rating and multi-engine rating,
all that just in time to see the airlines start laying off by the hundreds back 
about 1970!
But I did have a good career with the FAA in air traffic control; I'm one of 
those who stayed on the job during
the strike of 1981 - at least I had good job security which I never could have 
had with the airlines.  So the guys
at TI who knew me then saw me get the start of a 35-year career in aviation - 
from which I am retired now!
    Ron (K5CXH)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <billgibson at fuse.net>
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Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2013 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: [K6NCG] Discussion of K6NCG


>
> 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
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> 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
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 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
> Subject: Re: [K6NCG] Discussion of K6NCG
>
>
>>
>> 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
>> 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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