[K6NCG] Discussion of K6NCG
billgibson at fuse.net
billgibson at fuse.net
Sun Jun 9 20:18:56 EDT 2013
It helps to have a name spelled correctly, thanks Mike! John helped me with converting two 11-meter CB w alkie talkies to 10
-meters but they didn't work. I helped John build a grounded-grid Linear. It didn't work.
Bill - K4UC
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From: "Michael S. Mitchell" <w6rw at earthlink.net>
To: "Discussion of K6NCG" <k6ncg at mailman.qth.net>, "Discussion of K6NCG" <k6ncg at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 9, 2013 7:53:03 PM
Subject: Re: [K6NCG] Discussion of K6NCG
Jon Blackmon is now K5VA. His email address is jonblackmon at gmail.com
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>From: billgibson at fuse.net
>Sent: Jun 9, 2013 4:37 PM
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>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
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> 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
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
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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
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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
>> ----- 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)
>>> ----- 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
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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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