[K6NCG] More K6NCG

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Where in Southern Arizona? I live in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora 20 miles  
south of Yuma!

Connected by DROID on Verizon Wireless

-----Original message-----
From: Charlie Kotan <Charlie at Kotan.com>
To: K6NCG at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Sun, Jun 9, 2013 02:44:26 GMT+00:00
Subject: [K6NCG] More K6NCG

Hi, Mike - yes, you are the only name I remember.  Thanks, because you are
one  of the reasons I got my novice license.  I got rid of my HF rig when we
moved to southern Arizona, but I have plans to pick up another - maybe a SDR
rig, since I'm a software guy.  Maybe we'll have a sked at some point.

 

Ron, perhaps you are the Lt(jg) who gave me my novice test near mid-66.  As
an SN, officers first names were all Mister<grin>.

 

Another anecdote: There was a TV in the shack lab.  One night some guys were
watching the tube when there was a bang and flash, so we secured the power
and went hunting with flashlights.  Found an electrolytic capacitor with
cheese on one lead, tinfoil on the other, and an extremely dead mouse
nearby.  Love those simple circuits.

 

73, K0TAN

 

>> ----- 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! 

 

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