Coke, an experiment

moparmandan said
Del, when I was stationed at Mare Island, some of the Bases in the Bay Area had intramural football teams. Tackle, full pads. I played for Mare Island. We played Moffett Field, Treasure Island, Alameda, and also played San Quintin. They had a team believe it or not. Of course all their games were home games. LOL
Not many people can say they have played football at San Quentin.
You remember anything like that?

No all I was there for was school. I spent most of my time either off base with friends, or hanging out at the ham club. We had a MASSIVELY cool ham club in those days. If you were licensed General class or better, you could "stand watch" at the ham club and not in the barracks. 68-69. Search K6NCG, there are I think three websites with photos of the club. Back then it was out by the NW end of the Island next door to that nuke school whatever it was called

K6NCG - Treasure Island Radio Amateur Club 1969-1970

K6NCG Amateur Radio Station - Treasure Island, CA

K6NCG

This is an old photo from the Stoddard site, but this was our building as I knew it, Alcatraz, Golden Gate in the haze behind

At some point after I left there and got to Miramar, they moved the club somewhere else

This is most likely me up the tower. I helped build the 6M ground plane below on the sidearm

Me on the tower, I was 20. 120 ft tower

I spent a fair amount of time operating the magnificent Collins 75A-4 receiver, Hallicrafters HT37 transmitter on CW (Morse) or RTTY. I helped bring the device on top, part of a URA-8 terminal unit for RTTY back from one of the mothball ships at Mare Is. We also bagged some newer RTTY machines, not shown here

Photo of the newer RTTY printers, model 28 stuff