Re: [IRCA] Grifton Daytime Bandscan #2

[D1028Gary@xxxxxxx]

Charles,
 
     Your daytime bandscan was definitely NOT a  bust, at least for my 
purposes.  My logs from the Mayport DX time period  (1973-1974) were lost in the 
Navy shuffle, so your bandscan was very useful in  helping me remember the 
stations I used to hear, as an STG2 on the USS Patterson  (DE1061) using a Sony 
TR-6400.
 
     Like you, I went to boot camp in Great Lakes  (1971), but then was sent 
to Key West, FL for Basic Electronics school (Key  West, surrounded by salt 
water, was very interesting for DX).  My first  ship as an STG3 was the 
Patterson, which changed homeports from Newport, RI to  Mayport in 1973.  DXing from 
the East Coast was great, with convenient  sunset ship covering the country 
over a 3-hour period, unlike DXing from  Washington, where sunrise skip (and 
losing sleep) was the most effective.
 
     Also like you, I spent a lot of time in the  WestPac area, on the USS 
Badger and USS Harold E. Holt (1975-77), SIMA in Pearl  Harbor (1977-79) as a 
sonar repair specialist, and as the sonar gang LPO (STG1)  on the USS Parsons 
(DDG-33), overseas homeported in Yokosuka, Japan  (1980-81).  My wife (KC7BAR) 
is also a WestPac souvenir, a Chinese  from Hong Kong who I met in 1980.  She 
(and her Chinese friends)  helps to identify any unknown Chinese TP audio clips 
anybody may  have.
 
                                                                              
                             73,  Gary  
     
 
     



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