[MRCG] Visit to the Stanford Dish antenna

[Paul Thekan]

George also got stuck with burial detail...both burying..and exhuming.
I miss George...and miss his trash cans full off stuff he would empty  out
at the Foothill Swap back in the day and you could pick through the debris
field.
Paul
N6FEG

On Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 3:23 PM Bart Lee <kv6lee at gmail.com> wrote:

> My friend, the late George Durfee, supervised the construction of the
> Stanford Dish as the Chief Quality Control Engineer.  There's a great pix
> of him sitting on top of the edge of the dish.
>
> He was a big guy so the Army, in WW-II, gave him a choice, radio operator
> or something else.  He thought radio operators got shot at a lot, so he
> declined that.  So they gave him a BAR.  He fought from the coast of France
> to inside Germany.
>
> 73 de Bart, K6VK
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> On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 2:46 PM Tim <timsamm at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Military Comms related?  (Well, SIGINT anyway...) Yes!  Plus Apollo
> etc...
> > You's might find this interesting...I did!
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj3ZuphVxsE
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> > Tim
> > N6CC
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