[K6NCG] Discussion of K6NCG

billgibson at fuse.net billgibson at fuse.net
Sat Jun 8 15:56:54 EDT 2013


Thank you Tom - Roger that about Don. 

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From: "TC Dailey" <daileyservices at qwest.net> 
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Sent: Saturday, June 8, 2013 3:53:17 PM 
Subject: Re: [K6NCG] Discussion of K6NCG 

Don was there in the 60's - look at that section on the website - his call 
is still good, but he never answered emails or a letter I sent. 
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From: <billgibson at fuse.net> 
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Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2013 11:05 AM 
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> 
> . . . 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 
> 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 
> 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) 
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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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