Chuck Gauder, W8XG, sent us an interesting "Early History of MARS (and
K8AIR) at Wright Patterson AFB," including his circa-1958 experiences as
K8AIR trustee. This has been added to our history library, which also
contains another interesting historical account by Chuck Sudds, K0TVD,
of his Vietnam-era (1967-1969) memories of running overseas telephone
patches for the Military Affiliate Radio System (MARS). He served as one
of the operators at KR6CF in Okinawa, Japan, and recalls not only
KXAIR's strong signal into the Pacific Rim on HF, but also a frequent
operator of that station, a helpful airman named "Al" (his full name,
unfortunately, lost to history).
Both stories are available from the SACMARC Home Page:
http://www.novia.net/~pschleck/sacmarc/
under "New!"
73, Paul, K3FU
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