[K6NCG] Working Museum Ships as K6NCG today.

[Michael S. Mitchell W6RW]

When I was on TI (1965/1966) we slept in the barracks with our ETA School Class but our duty (instead of cleaning barracks, seaside watch, etc) was to run phone patches for those stationed in Vietnam on R&R and their loved ones at home.

Great memories!

de Mike W6RW (WB6FCE on TI) Trustee, K6NCG


-----Original Message-----
>From: Joe Papworth via K6NCG <k6ncg at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Jun 2, 2019 1:51 PM
>To: k6ncg at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [K6NCG] Working Museum Ships as K6NCG today.
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>Raise your hand if you ever had the privilege of standing the "Surfside Watch".
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>-----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.
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>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.
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>The auto hobby shop is now an RV storage lot, where I keep my GMC motorhome.
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>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”
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>The Yacht Club moved into building 2.  The Museum has a small room in building 1 just off of the lobby. 
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>I’ll snap some photos later.  I’m taking requests of there’s anything you’d like to see.
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>Thanks for letting me share the tradition of Amateur Radio from Treasure Island.
>
>Desmond, KC6VHG
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