[Qcwa] War Dep Radio Oprs???

Sun, 6 Jan 2002 17:45:39 -0500

Joe.....I plead guilty.......was an operator at WAR 1941/42.....sine
"GR"........worked  WVN San Juan cicruit many times as well as WVL Canal
Zone.........I spent most watches on WTJ Ft. Shafter....that seemed to be
where I ended up.  We were using recorded slip and perforated tape
(Boehme/Kleinschmidt) and made a transistion into radiotype......old IBM
electrics that ran at over 100 wpm......sounded like a machine gun when
receiving traffic.
There was always a reason why our equipment would not function.........that
was the time to fire up an old Vibroplex and handle the traffic manually.
I still keep in touch with Rod W9BRD/VA3ZBB who was "RN" and Bob Denniston
VP2VI who was "RD".
There is still a net of WAR operators functioning.....I dont remember the
time or frequency but if you touch bases with W2RRY he can fill you
in.....he was very active with them.

Not too many of us left ....

73    Norm     K1AA

----- Original Message -----
From: Joseph Fenn <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 2:26 PM
Subject: [Qcwa] War Dep Radio Oprs???

> Any WW2 WD radio oprs on this reflector.  Sure would like to
> chat with some.   I joined just before WW2 started up and lucked out
> by skipping boot camp and with Moms signed okay (under age).
> The sig corps WD Radio system was looking for hi-speed CW oprs
> and I went straight into operating from first day in.
> I'm talking about old "WAR", "WVN" (Ft Mcpherson), WVN
> SanJuan, WHZ Canal Zone etc.   Also USAT "shipboard Oprs"
> that communicated directly with WAR while at Sea.   I did a stint
> of that too.  Them was the glory days for CW types.  But we also
> got into strange stuff like BOEHME (Hi speed tape CW on paper).
>                 73's
>                 Joe/KH6JF/ABM6JF
>
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