Flyfishing in Arizona!
As a young man of 20 years of age. I had a job with United States Navy as a second class electronics technician radar endorsed aboard the USS independence CVA 62. We were on patrol and when I called area three somewhere in the Mediterranean. I was told to use the word. Three by my commanding officers when I was on my ham radio duties in auxiliary radio number three a convenient third position for communication center amidships and not easily targeted like the island above me. Not fearing enemy attack I could sit back and talk to people one of my favorite people to talk to was a K1GZL a ham radio operator in Portland Maine. He would raise tens of thousands of dollars and allow ships like the independence to have ham radio sessions at 2 o’clock in the morning on a time that was easily everyone else was sleeping during I would manage to get a line of sailors to back up around the 03 level of the end of edits a significant line and the traffic was the us we would arrange for a hook up with Paul K ones he said hell he would make a phone call get the charges reversed to his seemingly on the ending fund, make the connection and we we would tell the person in line your party is on on the line. I didn’t distract him on how he could talk and say over when he was done listen and when he heard the word over respond. It’s a simple communication protocol and worked for scores of sailors on the independence. even had an executive officer, who had a father that had a heart attack, and Kenosha, Wisconsin, and such an emergency was allowed for such high-ranking officials to get help with online privileges. No one in the crew would deny that that was one conversation that he had as a special capitalized conversation conversations we called QSO‘s. A lot of my targets in the mainland were in the middle west most aircraft carrier young men were like me in their 20s and had relatives in the Midwest. We had never seen the ocean yet alone an aircraft carrier, a daunting site from up here! And a blessing to a great majority of the crew. Just about as good as the Smothers Brothers comedy hour and Star Trek is that the name Captain Kirks show. They would cycle courtesy of that executive officer from two television stations in Norfork giving us that weeks 3 inch ribbon canister of recorded episodes alternating transmission to the end dependence, one week Kirk, and one week I smothers brothers by carrier pigeon, cod, sea one alpha male delivery planes, bringing them to my attention, and for presentation from the appropriate tape reader up aboard the ship. It was fun duty and I enjoyed it as did the crew and certain officers. I think the captain liked it too! NBC and CBS never got credit for this particular channel being mentioned. But that was not my intention, I thought highly of their endeavor.
Flyfishing in Arizona 