[K6NCG] K6NCG Digest, Vol 41, Issue 4

Tue Feb 28 00:52:53 EST 2017

Wow.  I hadn't heard much about the end of the club.  Think you could nail
down the date?

Love hearing the stories.

On Feb 27, 2017 5:52 PM, "ND3Q ND3Q" <cqnd3q at gmail.com> wrote:

> Let me know when a sked is set up. Im game. I was last there and in 1974
> the second to that last class to graduate. Bill from Buffalo(on to NUC
> school) and I (On to SPS-29E School in SD)we were the last to close down
> the Ham Club. Many good weekends when we lived in the shack. Took a large
> Beekman nixie tube Frequency Counter with me to my ship but got so much
> crap from the EMO I finally dumped it overboard in the Med. Hated that.
>
> 73 es Tnx
> Ted de ND3Q Philadelphia, Pa
>
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> >    1. Fwd:  TI Updates / Let's get a Sked for K6NCG (k8mp at aol.com)
> >    2. Keep us posted on a K6NCG sked! (Charlie Kotan)
> >    3. Building 180 demolition. (dcrisis at desmondcrisis.com)
> >    4. The last shack photos. (dcrisis at desmondcrisis.com)
> >    5. Re: Keep us posted on a K6NCG sked! (Michael S. Mitchell W6RW)
> >    6. Re: Keep us posted on a K6NCG sked! (Michael S. Mitchell W6RW)
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: k8mp at aol.com
> > To: k6ncg at mailman.qth.net
> > Cc:
> > Bcc:
> > Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 15:12:57 -0500
> > Subject: [K6NCG] Fwd: TI Updates / Let's get a Sked for K6NCG
> > The formatting of my first reply got hosed up. I'm resending...
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: k8mp <k8mp at aol.com>
> > To: k6ncg <k6ncg at mailman.qth.net>
> > Cc: w6rw <w6rw at earthlink.net>
> > Sent: Mon, Feb 27, 2017 2:40 pm
> > Subject: Re: [K6NCG] TI Updates / Let's get a Sked for K6NCG
> >
> > Count me in gents.
> >
> > Maybe a special event station could be set up some time too. Are there
> any
> > island anniversary dates that would be appropriate?
> >
> > Mike, I was also in ETA school over '68-'69.
> > I still tell stories about Chief Gurt...
> >
> > Later,
> > Joe Papworth, K8MP
> >
> >
> > Sent from AOL Mobile Mail
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Hammerberg <K8AGY at outlook.com>
> > To: Discussion of K6NCG <k6ncg at mailman.qth.net>
> > Cc: Michael S. Mitchell <w6rw at earthlink.net>
> > Sent: Mon, Feb 27, 2017 02:15 PM
> > Subject: Re: [K6NCG] TI Updates / Let's get a Sked for K6NCG
> >
> >
> > I would be interested in working K6NCG. Thanks for the update on TI. I
> was
> > stationed there for 9 months, 1968-1969. I have great memories of ETA
> > school and spending time at the ham shack. I have lost contact with any
> > friends I knew at ETA school except for one person and he lost interest
> in
> > ham radio. The “Star Barracks” were new at the time I was stationed
> there.
> > It is hard to believe they are reduced to gravel piles. Any new pictures
> > would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> >
> > Mike Hammerberg
> > K8AGY
> > Plymouth, MI
> > > On Feb 27, 2017, at 1:29 PM, dcrisis at desmondcrisis.com wrote:
> > >
> > > Any interest in getting a Sked to work Treasure Island? I can set up
> > here and use the club call if anyone wants to work it.
> > >
> > > Many changes on the Island. Almost all of the housing on YBI has been
> > gone for a while.
> > > The BOQ/BEQ “Star Barracks” have been reduced to gravel piles.
> > > They just demolished building 180 last week.
> > > They saved the Chapel, but everything around it is gone.
> > >
> > > Both of the old yacht club buildings are gone, but the TIYC moved into
> > an old paint shop in Bldg 2. It’s VERY nice now.
> > >
> > > There’s a massive dirt mountain on top of the Quonset hut that housed
> > the last ham shack. They’re going to use that dirt to raise the ground
> > level of the whole island by 3 feet.
> > >
> > > DC
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> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Charlie Kotan <Charlie at kotan.com>
> > To: <K6NCG at mailman.qth.net>
> > Cc:
> > Bcc:
> > Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 13:22:49 -0700
> > Subject: [K6NCG] Keep us posted on a K6NCG sked!
> > I’m not a big net guy, but I’d check in now and then!  ETA class 65-17
> > Oct65-Jul66. Got WN0PCW there then WA0PCW later in ’66 @ Baltimore FCC
> > office. Made Extra and got KØTAN much later.  My vertical does 10-40M and
> > tunes up to about 3800. In Lake Havasu City, AZ these days.
> >
> >
> >
> > Mike, I remember you being quite a good CW fist.
> >
> >
> >
> > 73, Charlie KØTAN
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: "dcrisis at desmondcrisis.com" <dcrisis at desmondcrisis.com>
> > To: Discussion of K6NCG <k6ncg at mailman.qth.net>
> > Cc:
> > Bcc:
> > Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 12:25:15 -0800
> > Subject: [K6NCG] Building 180 demolition.
> > Building 180 was right behind Building 1.  I’ve heard that it was the
> > Reserve Center.
> >
> > Here it was a couple of weeks ago.  It’s a parking lot now.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: "dcrisis at desmondcrisis.com" <dcrisis at desmondcrisis.com>
> > To: Discussion of K6NCG <k6ncg at mailman.qth.net>
> > Cc:
> > Bcc:
> > Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 12:38:09 -0800
> > Subject: [K6NCG] The last shack photos.
> > These are pictures that I took in May of 2005. This was right before they
> > fenced it off, broke the concrete and made it into a huge dirt pile.  I
> > wanted to save a chunk of that tower base with the callsigns engraved in
> > it, but I wasn’t able to get at it in time.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: "Michael S. Mitchell W6RW" <w6rw at earthlink.net>
> > To: Discussion of K6NCG <k6ncg at mailman.qth.net>, K6NCG at mailman.qth.net
> > Cc: John Rehak N6HI <n6hi.qrp at gmail.com>
> > Bcc:
> > Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 14:00:15 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
> > Subject: Re: [K6NCG] Keep us posted on a K6NCG sked!
> >
> > Hey Charlie...that makes 3 of us that I know of that were on TI 1965-1966
> > that now live in Arizona. I live in Yuma and John Rehak N6HI (WA8LTY when
> > on TI) lives I believe in Phoenix. John and I are both members of the
> > Arizona Outlaws Contest Club.
> >
> > Good to hear from you!!
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > >From: Charlie Kotan <Charlie at Kotan.com>
> > >Sent: Feb 27, 2017 1:22 PM
> > >To: K6NCG at mailman.qth.net
> > >Subject: [K6NCG] Keep us posted on a K6NCG sked!
> > >
> > >I’m not a big net guy, but I’d check in now and then!  ETA class 65-17
> > >Oct65-Jul66. Got WN0PCW there then WA0PCW later in ’66 @ Baltimore FCC
> > >office. Made Extra and got KØTAN much later.  My vertical does 10-40M
> and
> > >tunes up to about 3800. In Lake Havasu City, AZ these days.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Mike, I remember you being quite a good CW fist.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >73, Charlie KØTAN
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: "Michael S. Mitchell W6RW" <w6rw at earthlink.net>
> > To: Discussion of K6NCG <k6ncg at mailman.qth.net>, K6NCG at mailman.qth.net
> > Cc: John Rehak N6HI <n6hi.qrp at gmail.com>
> > Bcc:
> > Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 14:00:15 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
> > Subject: Re: [K6NCG] Keep us posted on a K6NCG sked!
> >
> > Hey Charlie...that makes 3 of us that I know of that were on TI 1965-1966
> > that now live in Arizona. I live in Yuma and John Rehak N6HI (WA8LTY when
> > on TI) lives I believe in Phoenix. John and I are both members of the
> > Arizona Outlaws Contest Club.
> >
> > Good to hear from you!!
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > >From: Charlie Kotan <Charlie at Kotan.com>
> > >Sent: Feb 27, 2017 1:22 PM
> > >To: K6NCG at mailman.qth.net
> > >Subject: [K6NCG] Keep us posted on a K6NCG sked!
> > >
> > >I’m not a big net guy, but I’d check in now and then!  ETA class 65-17
> > >Oct65-Jul66. Got WN0PCW there then WA0PCW later in ’66 @ Baltimore FCC
> > >office. Made Extra and got KØTAN much later.  My vertical does 10-40M
> and
> > >tunes up to about 3800. In Lake Havasu City, AZ these days.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Mike, I remember you being quite a good CW fist.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >73, Charlie KØTAN
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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