[Milsurplus] HAMS THAT ARE MIL SURPLUS FOR THE MOST PART PERHAPS SKS

[SaunHills@aol.com]

Ralph has been nice enough to let me post this.

I would like to find out anything at all about the following Hams.  Most of 
you seem like your Old timers so you could have known them.  This all 
happened in the mid 60's

1.  Howard Puriton K5TPU. I last saw him in his home in 1964 in Clovis, 
N.Mexico when he did a little rework on a Globe Scout 680 for me.

2. Chuck Cuthrall and Jerry Edgely.  Both were from my old home town of 
Flint, Michigan.  Or at least that is where I grew up.  One was from Mt. 
Morris actually and the other was fm Flint.  I was stationed with both of 
them in Ankara, Turkey with Tuslog Det 6.  We worked at Esenboa Airport. in a 
HF, SSB site.  I heard after I left Turkey that Chuck died of a heart attack.

Jerry I heard went to the Far east as a Tech Rep.  Jerry had a Japanese wife 
and her name was Caco? Kay Koe?  Don't know how it was spelled.  Jerry bought 
one of the old 6 Mtr Heath rigs I had built while in Turkey.  It' wasn't the 
lunch box it was the nice low power base unit.

3. My last friend was at Eglin Fld # 3 in Fla.  My memory is bad but his last 
name could have been Collins or he could have worked for Collins. He was of 
slender build blondish hair and wore glasses.   He was there modifying 
TRC-97's? nearest I can remember. We were a Tac Mobil Comm outfit. I don't 
remember what he had for Xmtr but he Had a Hammaurlund  HQ-110 or something 
close to it.  When I shipped out to Canada I left a 6Mtr Beam laying in his 
front yard that I had started building.  Him and his wife loved cats and they 
gave me a beautiful one before we left.  But while in Canada my Ex let it run 
outside and that was last we ever saw of it.  She cared less.