49 years ago today...the launch of Apollo 11 and the trip to the moon

67Dart273 said
July of '69. I was a "newly minted" U.S. Navy Electronics tech either just left Treasure Island, home on leave, or was still there TAD at the Island. After I graduated, I was TAD to the station amateur radio club where "I did nothing" or next to that, for a few weeks waiting transfer.

K6NCG - Treasure Island Radio Amateur Club 1969-1970

"ritty" (RTTY) one of my favorite things to do back then

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"The main station" Drake transmitter / receiver. Had been Collins receiver, Hallicrafters transmitter when I arrived

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Yours truly up the 120 ft tower

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Then home for leave, and down to Glynco, GA for GCA RADAR school in one of the old blimp hangers

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Then spring of '70, NAS Miramar!! "Top Gun" "Fightertown USA"

Nice! Looks like you became a Electronics Technician about 10 years before me (I graduated from tech school with a degree in Advanced Electronics in 1979. I actually have First Class FCC license (now called General Class) that allows me to legally work on commercial television transmitters. No sure how much I remember though. LOL