[QCWA] A Footnote On Military Station Licences

[ve6afo at telus.net]

Doug,

You are the very person we need to write all about the BC-610 
refurbishing. This would make for an article in the QCWA Journal! As 
you probably know, there is an excellent video (I believe on YouTube) 
of this wonderful beast being manufactured for the military.

73,

Ken Oelke, VE6AFO

At 09:33 PM 11/30/15, Chapter7QCWA--- via QCWA wrote:
>I taught Mode I and Mode V Autodin for my entire time  there after my
>initial crypto MOS training. Moonlighted at Frequency Engineering  Labs
>remanufacturing BC-610's that we put into vans and sent to  Nam.
>
>73 - Doug - W6HB
>
>
>In a message dated 11/30/15 19:42:13 Pacific Standard Time, w7wll at arrl.net
>writes:
>
>Ft  Monmouth brings back a lot of good memories. Had the opportunity to
>visit
>the site a few times (70's-80's), first with our Army Account Manager,
>Neil
>Schiller (and his later replacement Ken England?), during the time I  was
>with Tektronix' Government Sales and Marketing Group, headquartered in
>Beaverton OR. One impressive place and I was really taken back by the
>technology and work being done there by the really competent people I was
>fortunate to meet.
>
>Just a point of interest to those who still have  some older Tek products
>in
>the shack, a few years back I made a concerted  effort to identify the hams
>who had or were working at Tek.  The  current list contains some 670+ call
>signs identified,  internationally.  Having an amateur radio license was a
>positive  added reference for those looking to work at a high technology
>company  such as Tektronix. I also heard this same comment from other hams
>working  for other high tech companies.
>
>How the technology has changed over the  past 60 years I've been licensed.
>I
>remember having to diagram a Colpitts  (or Hartley?) circuit under the
>watchful eye of a FCC examiner!!!!   The code was easy, not so the test as
>I
>remember.
>
>Don  W7WLL
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Sturm
>Sent: Monday,  November 30, 2015 1:16 PM
>To: QCWA at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: [QCWA] A  Footnote On Military Station Licences
>
>This is just a footnote regarding  a military station in Bayonne NJ and
>their station license.
>
>I worked  at the Military Ocean Terminal, Bayonne, NJ for 18 years.  In the
>late  90's they installed an HF communications station to be part of an
>emergency  backup HF network (USB and PACTOR) for Defense  Transportation
>installations.  Being a ham, I naturally got to know  the fellow who was in
>charge of the station and was able to put it on the  air on the ham bands,
>both general hamming and MARS.  It was fun to  play with $35,000 Harris
>radios but unfortunately they rarely worked.   Neither did the rotators for
>the 4 HF LP antennas on 40' towers atop an 8  story building.  Later, they
>got a dozen Kenwood TS-430's which worked  perfectly in all sorts of
>conditions (like a tent in Haiti.)
>
>Since  we had a valid station license and I was the control operator and
>had  permission, there appeared to be no issue hamming with the station.
>As to  the station license itself, (I forgot the call but it was a WB2,) it
>was  FCC issued and current and prominently displayed.  I asked at the  time
>how the license was issued and the operator (who was not a ham) said  that
>he obtained the license from whoever was the Army's central  communications
>agency at the time, it was NETCOM when I retired a few years  ago.  He said
>that when an installation closed, they kept renewing and  reissuing the
>licences by address changes.
>
>So that's the story of  one station license.  Bayonne closed in 1997.  I
>retired from Ft.  Monmouth but never got a chance to operate their
>magnificent club station,  K2USA.
>
>VY 73
>Mike Sturm,  KA2E
>
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