"Lloyd" wrote in message
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"JAMES HAMPTON" wrote in message
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"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




Blahhh Blahhhh Blahhhh, Have heard "Admiral" Hans tell that
story down at the Legion many times. Each time the exploits
get bigger, and the story gets longer!

ROTFLMAO!

73,

Lloyd



Hello, Lloyd

Please remember that this is not a story from Hans - I was there.

My thoughts are this: most of us respond in an emergency in any way we can.
Back around 1971, I was at a creek and there were a bunch of us swimming.
One kid started hollering for help. I was around 23 years old at the time
(he was 17). When no one was responding (there were kids closer to him), I
dove in and pulled him out. No, I was not trained but knew I could hold my
breath for a couple of minutes under water so I wasn't worried. I came up
underneath the guy, grabbed him, and started doing a sidestoke towards
shore. No big deal; nothing in the papers and I doubt the other folks had
any idea of what happened. I simply responded as most of us would.

About 10 years back, a big snowstorm hit. It had houses buried up to the
second floor in Brockport (near to Rochester). A bunch of snowmobilers
aided in the rescue.

No biggie. I think we make too big a deal of the whole thing. Hans
responded and did a lot for many folks. He does have some documentation to
that effect. I wish we could get off the subject.


73 from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA