[K6NCG] Discussion of K6NCG
billgibson at fuse.net
billgibson at fuse.net
Sun Jun 9 19:37:37 EDT 2013
Ron,
I don’t remember flying with you while at TI but I did want to join the Aero Club at Alameda. I didn’t solo until May 25, 1968 at LGB, Long Beach Municipal Airport. I didn’t start flying with the airline until age 53! I keep my CFII renewed and will flight instruct again at Cincinnati Lunken if the flight school business eventually comes back to life.
Does anyone remember John Blackman from New Mexico, K6NCG circa 65/66? (don’t have his callsign). He operat ed the Collins S-L ine all the time. Bill – K4UC
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From: "Ronald Carman" <rrcarman at centurytel.net>
To: "Discussion of K6NCG" <k6ncg at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, June 8, 2013 2:56:54 PM
Subject: Re: [K6NCG] Discussion of K6NCG
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)
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From: <billgibson at fuse.net>
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Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2013 1:14 PM
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>
> 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
> ----- 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
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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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