"Lloyd" wrote in message
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Did you ever work for Admiral Hans K0HB? He was the greatest
radioman admiral in the navy, according to him.

73,

Lloyd




Hello, Lloyd

Now that you mention it, a typhoon hit Saipan (I'm guessing around 80 miles
from Guam) and took out the U.S. Coast Guard tower. This was sometime
around 1968. A chief and another man or two were sent to Saipan to try and
re-establish communications with Guam.

I was in the shack at KG6AAY (Naval communications receiver site) and heard
"Sparkplug" (the Navy station on Guam) trying to contact "Sparkplug1" (the
men sent to Saipan to re-establish communications). After a number of
exchanges where the Guam site kept saying "you are loud, but garbled"
(someone didn't know how to turn down the rf gain, I assume), I broke in.
Given the circumstances, the FCC would not have objected. I made contact
with "Sparkplug1" on Saipan as KG6AAY.

Within a matter of minutes, the command came down for the ham shack to pass
the traffic directly to Commander, Naval Forces Marianas. Our commanding
officer, Captain Delany (not sure if I got the name spelled correctly),
appeared in the shack and secured 3 hams from all other duties as they were
to rotate duty amongst themselves and maintain 24 hour communications with
Saipan until he ordered otherwise. The hams maintained communications until
repairs were made to the Coast Guard installation.

The guy on the other end (on Saipan) was Hans.
I have a lot of respect for that gentleman.

So what have you done that would allow you to think that Hans didn't do
much?


73 from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA