[MRCG] MRCG 2015 wrap-up

Tue May 5 22:54:58 EDT 2015

Hi - Yep, Old Crows.  The museum at the former NAS Moffett Field in CA
(which is pretty good BTW) has a nice display of equipment apparently
sponsored by a local Old Crows group.  Lots of black boxes and neat emblems
/ plaques etc.  Apparently a lot of the technical roots of Silicon Valley
came from early EW/Countermeasures research & production...

Nick - You're right - that "Know Your PT Boat" pamphlet is dated 1945 not
1943.... but the cartoon does have a certain "Disney" look about it.  I
know Disney did a lot of old cartoonish mascot type drawings for the
military back then,....

Tim
N6CC

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Steve H. <1tron.engineer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well that's the NAVSEA side. Spent 10 yrs there and 20 on the NAVAIR side.
> Both different and equally dysfunctional!  Navy airboure clandestine (with
> roots to Air Force uh Army Air Corp - don't what to start anything here!)
> ops during WWII had Ravens. This was shortened to Crows  and later
> electronic warfare adopted Old Crows. I've spent most of the last 15 in
> that environment - won't mention Air Force or USMC aviation (don't want to
> start anything here either but will say USMC aviator is one of the scarier
> terms around).
>
> Sorry for brief notes. On smartphone & still in my office...
>
>
> > On May 5, 2015, at 5:56 PM, Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Well 1947 is what the Navy's web page says
> >
> http://www.public.navy.mil/fcc-c10f/nctamslant/Pages/OSCARLogoHistory.aspx
> >
> > - but clearly the 1945 Know Your PT Boat illustration came first.
> >
> >
> > Nick England K4NYW
> > www.navy-radio.com
> >
> >> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> *http://www.navy-radio.com/misc/plaque-norfolk-1401.jpg
> >> <http://www.navy-radio.com/misc/plaque-norfolk-1401.jpg>Oscar the
> Octopus*
> >> depicts the dynamic environment of a Navy communicator.
> >>
> >>  In 1947, at the request of Commander W. A. Swanston, USN, the Fifth
> >> Naval District Communication Officer, Walt Disney's artists conceived
> the
> >> design.  Oscar was adopted as command emblem for the U.S. Navy
> >> Communication Station Norfolk, upon its establishment on 7 November
> 1950.
> >>
> >> The original 2' by 3' Disney artwork is displayed in NCTAMS LANT's
> >> quarterdeck area, and replicated throughout the world by present and
> former
> >> Navy communicators.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Nick England K4NYW
> >> www.navy-radio.com
> >>
> >> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 7:52 PM, Jay Coward via MRCG <
> mrcg at mailman.qth.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Tim,
> >>> Could Radio.Octapus ( I just looked him up and got your site) operate
> >>> all the radio gear onboard a PBY or PBM? That would be cool.
> >>> I wish I could have attended this years meet but sudden health issues
> >>> intervened. I had planned to do the 4 day camp out, bring a bunch of
> >>> "surplus" to swap and do the fox hunt with a PRC-6, now with DF
> antenna,
> >>> not the Patricia Gibbons "body attenuator" method I used years ago.
> >>> Glad to hear the event was (as expected) a success.
> >>> Will you be doing an "after action report" soon? I always enjoy those.
> >>> Jay KE6PPF
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Tim <timsamm at gmail.com>
> >>> To: West Coast Military Radio Collectors Group <mrcg at mailman.qth.net>
> >>> Sent: Tue, May 5, 2015 3:57 pm
> >>> Subject: Re: [MRCG] MRCG 2015 wrap-up
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Maybe the Navy radioman.octopus for next year?  Or a variation on that
> >>> cartoon?
> >>> It's the one on the header of the Plan of the Day we
> >>> published....I have the
> >>> file...
> >>> Tim
> >>> N6CC
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Michael Bittner
> >>> <mmab at cox.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- From:
> >>> <boatanchor at martasystems.com>
> >>>> To: "MRCG" <mrcg at mailman.qth.net>
> >>>> Sent:
> >>> Tuesday, May 05, 2015 10:43 AM
> >>>> Subject: [MRCG] MRCG 2015 wrap-up
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks
> >>> to all for a great time and all the help with the chores !
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Next year,
> >>> maybe a Navy or aviation themed shirt ?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 73’s
> >>>>> John WB6AZP
> >>>> RE
> >>> Next year's shirt, GO NAVY.  Naval Aviation even better.  Mike,
> >>> W6MAB
> >>>>
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