[QCWA] memories

[Norm Gertz]

Joe....we also had an AARS position at the rear of the station at 
WAR.....they had two signal corps operators assigned to it.....had a W3 call 
which escapes me now but they acted as net control on a big area net.
The positon was shut down after Dec 7th as the radio amateurs were placed in 
the silent mode.
It was a manual positon and was later used  for communicating with outlying 
stations without high speed.
The station in SF was WVY and we always had good communication with them 24 
hrs a day.
Lots of memories..

73  Norm  K1AA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph Fenn" <jfenn at lava.net>
To: "Discussion of QCWA" <qcwa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: [QCWA] memories


> Norm I would swear that you and Unbenown to each other worked each
> other via Boehme many times.   I was at WVN in 41 and 42 same as you
> were at WAR.     Guess what was the choice operating posn at WVN
> in those days.  One day a week someone would be assigned to the
> "AARS" circuit.  We had about 4 oprs on each shift, and the
> guys got into a big hassle on that one day and wanted to work
> the AARS cct.    We used our assigned freqcy (not inside the
> ham band) and the AARS members used fqcys inside the ham band.
> Once we collected their morale traffic, we sent it direct to
> to the WD radio stn at the presisio of SFO.  They in turn
> sent it to All pacific points like Schofield, Guam, Phillipines
> etc via MARS freqcys.  A msg could be transferred from SanJuan
> to Phillipines with 2 relays and usually make it within 30
> mins.
>                Joe ex (W4FAG in thouse days)
>
>
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