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Skriven 2013-10-28 21:48:00 av Ed Vance (12307.windowsa)
    Kommentar till text 621 av Mike Luther (1:117/100.0)
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10-25-13 10:51 Mike Luther wrote to Ed Vance about Re: SK

 ML> @MSGID: <526AEC3B.12299.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>
 EV> 10-20-13 09:42 Mike Luther wrote to Ed Vance about Re: SK

 ML>  Interesting Ed ..

 EV> Thanks for the WWII USS Midway story Dick Harris told to you.

 EV> I guess your Rating was a AT (Aviation Technician).
 EV> I saw a AT in 1960 at NOB Norfolk (Naval Operations Base, Norfolk)
 EV> when I was using the Base Gym.

 ML> Perhaps a bit more interesting also, chortle!  No such rating
 ML> AT at all!  It's been of discussion elsewhere before, but my
 ML> shipboard and 'Navy' experience is a bit unusual, so sail.  I
 ML> got my US ham radio license first back in 1952 when I was 13
 ML> years of age.  My only interest at all in it was telegraph
 ML> code. Was at that time the youngest ever to next get the US
 ML> Extra Class license. So said back then I wound up doing
 ML> original wire harness construction for the first weather radars
 ML> ever released in the USA from alteration of the original WWII
 ML> radar systems, working as a kid in A&M Consolidated High School
 ML> here in College Station, Texas, home of Texas A&M College.
 ML> Moved on to so said build the first ever Color Radar designed
 ML> by one of my mentors, Dr. George Huebner who was W5GDK.  That
 ML> moved to helping build the first Sferics weather radar system
 ML> he designed here also.  This all associated with the
 ML> Oceanography and Meteorogy Department of Texas A&M.

Mike,

My Friend who joined the U.S. Navy and told me about the great
training he was getting at Electronics Technicians (ET) School,
Later on He was on the Bowditch and from what he has told me that
vessel did the same kind of thing the Hidalgo did but in the Atlantic
Ocean.
---snip---
 ML> that back then.  Only marine radio telegraph code stuff.  Well
 ML> as a kid I already had a First Class Telephone FCC Enineer's
 ML> license and a Radar Endorsement.  So my department 'boss' asked
 ML> me if I would go down and take an FCC Telegraph Operator's
 ML> license?  I agreed to go to Houston and do it.  Passed the
 ML> 'normal' Second Class test no problem.  OK, Mike, you are now
 ML> the Marine Radiotelegraph Operator for the RV Hidalgo.

 ML> 'During the hurricane season, your job (Paying my way through
 ML> Texas A&M) is to be able EVERY HOUR WITHIN 5 MINUTES OF THE
 ML> HOUR - 24 HOURS A DAY WHILE THE HIDALGO IS AT SEA - TO HAVE THE
 ML> RESEARCH DATA BACK ON SHORE AT SOME USA TELEGRAPH LAND STATION.
 ML>  And with that and your other engineering work you do for the
 ML> department we'll pay you $24,000 USD a year.'

On the USS Midway and the other three Aircraft Carriers I served on
the Weather Office used FAX and RTTY IIRC, no CW to my knowledge.
I can't remember if they had transmitting capabilities or not in
their work space, I just remember seeing Receiving Gear up there.

Down on the Hanger Deck I saw the men launch the WX Balloons.
---snip---
 ML> I did it.  Got one of what I found out are VERY few ever issued
 ML> First Class Telegraph Operator Licenses ever issues.  I could
 ML> have served as the operator on the Titanic, so I learned at the
 ML> time, but was told I was lucky not to have been on it.  It was
 ML> a number of years later, after I finally figured out how to get
 ML> me off the Hidalgo and to create the first long distance

I think I once had a 2nd Class Radio Telegraph license, maybe it was
a 3rd Class, can't remember.

I also once had a 3rd Class Radio Telephone license.
An interesting story comes to mind, I was working as a Dispatcher
in the Radio Room for local City-County Radio, one day I was asked
to get a Restricted Radio Telephone Operators Permit, I showed them
my 3rd Class license but had to fill out the Application for the
Permit anyway.

Years later when I was a Lock and Dam Operator I had to do the same
thing even after showing I had a Permit.    DUH!
----snip----
 ML> Plus you'be surprised at what even FidoNet has been worth to
 ML> all of us in the world as well.

In 1984 I knew of Compuserve but thought it too expensive for me.
But I learned the phone number for a Dial-Up Commodore BBS and that
got me started using my VIC MODEM 300, some time later I read in
a Local Computer Magazine some numbers for BBS's in the surrounding
area and started using a GT Power BBS.
IIRC the City Library had FIDO available and I dialed it once but
didn't like it so I didn't use FIDO until sometime later on.

I think I started using FIDO because I learned there was a BASIC
Echo on FIDO.

Talking about FIDO Net made me think about Traffic Nets on Ham Radio.
When I was a Novice, a Novice Net got started on 80 Meters,
it was more of a Rag Chew net but one day a week I was Net Control.

After I got back home from the U.S. Navy I was a member of the
Kentucky State Traffic Net (KYN).

J.B. Wathen W4BAZ was Net Control one evening and asked me to
switch frequency to get a message from another station.

I sent    - . -,   ,,,,-   (TEN 4) instead of sending R for Roger.
He didn't catch on what I had sent and sent a Question Mark for me
to repeat what I sent, He caught on the second time I sent it.
I think I got a Belly Laugh out of him that night, I was laughing
in my Ham Shack.

I mention J.B. because He operated a Flying Service (and a Amateur
Radio Store) and I thought that You may had know Him.

Hey I almost typed as long of a message as You have.   <GRIN> .... ..

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