[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
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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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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
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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"
> <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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