[QCWA] A Footnote On Military Station Licences

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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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