[K6NCG] Working Museum Ships as K6NCG today.

[Dave Sublette]

If Surfside Watch means the edge of the island at 3 AM with the cold wind
and fog blowing through your blues, then the answer is "No"!  When I was at
TI, July 62-May, 63, the members of K6NCG hamshack all slept in the same
barracks.  We stood our duty inside the hamshack The rules for standing
duty were to wear the uniform of the day, sweep down the building every
hour, and the duty watch was not allowed to operate a rig.  Believe me when
I say we followed those rules to the last letter.  We had a good thing
going.  We knew it and were not about to screw it up for everyone else.

There was an officer-in-charge of the shack.  He was a WA6 something.  We
didn't see a lot of him, but he did check the watch occasionally.  We had a
petty-officer-in-charge.  He was ETN1 Frank Mizell, K4DGU (Dirty Girty's
Uncle).  Frank was the receivers instructor for week 20 or so.  We was a
prince.  He was in the shack a lot.  He had an odd quality to his voice.
No kidding, it sounded like SSB that was just slightly off tuned.  We loved
him.

In a great coincidence, after I left the Navy, finished my BSEE and went to
my first job, aerospace circuit design at Harris (then Radiation) in
Florida, Frank was the lead technician in our lab.  He supervised the
technician crew that built our prototypes.  He ran a tight ship.

After I left Florida and went to Huntsville, AL. I had one QSO with Frank,
who had retired and moved to Rocky Mount, NC.  Frank is now a Silent Key.
But I would guess there are a lot of K6NCG folks who have great memories of
our time with Frank.

73,

Dave, K4TO

On Sun, Jun 2, 2019 at 4:51 PM Joe Papworth via K6NCG <k6ncg at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

> Raise your hand if you ever had the privilege of standing the "Surfside
> Watch".
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dcrisis at desmondcrisis.com <dcrisis at desmondcrisis.com>
> To: Discussion of K6NCG <k6ncg at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sun, Jun 2, 2019 02:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [K6NCG] Working Museum Ships as K6NCG today.
>
>
> Conditions aren’t very good this weekend and I don’t have my tower up at
> my new QTH…
>
> However, I did get the club call into the logs of the USS Hornet, the SS
> Pampanito, and the SS Red Oak Victory.  The Hornet was very excited to hear
> the TIARA callsign today.
>
> An update on the Island for those who have asked…
>
> The BOQ/BEQ barracks “Round” or “Star” barracks have been demolished. The
> concrete they were made of has been ground up and tuned into fill dirt to
> raise the level of the island.
> The Acey-Ducey/Chief’s Club is gone and is somewhere under that dirt.
>
> They just ground up the old Brig, but that was a more modern structure, so
> many of you may not remember it.
>
> They dug out and removed the old “Pandemonium” about a year and a half ago.
>
> The auto hobby shop is now an RV storage lot, where I keep my GMC
> motorhome.
>
> The elementary school in the housing area closed down years ago.  There’s
> a great restaurant made out of some of the front classrooms called “Cafe
> Aracely”
>
> Most of the Great Lawn is gone.  It’s part of the first parcel transferred
> to the city and they’ve built a fence around that.  They’ve demolished
> everything that was there and they’re raising the ground level.
>
> The very north end of the lawn is still there and there’s a restaurant
> there made of shipping containers with excellent food and a great bar.
>
> All of the officer’s housing on Yerba Buena Island are gone except for the
> “Great Whites” down on the eastern shore near the Coast Guard base.  The
> first stage of condo development will happen on top of the hill.
>
> The Yacht Club moved into building 2.  The Museum has a small room in
> building 1 just off of the lobby.
>
> I’ll snap some photos later.  I’m taking requests of there’s anything
> you’d like to see.
>
> Thanks for letting me share the tradition of Amateur Radio from Treasure
> Island.
>
> Desmond, KC6VHG
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