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November 2008 - Once
again ExReps has kinda gotten away from me, am working on catching up
all the moves and changes and will be adding some new features, once
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My name is Ed Hess edymarww@telefonica.net and edymar02@gmail.com and I am in your register. I had some contacts recently that alluded to your postings of photographs and home locations.Our home is at longitude 3.807518972477339 latitude 40.00261339557413. This is on the island of Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. We also spend considerable time in Phoenix, AZ.
Following my years on DEWEAST Project, I came to Spain with General Instrument Co. to inaugurate the Menorca repeater for the AFCS MEDCOM in 1965. The CTSP position was converted to a DAFC engineering position in '66 and I remained on this site as a GS-11 until 1975. I later returned to the MEDCOM and worked in Greece (Boeing Services), Turkey(Holmes & Narver) and ultimately returned to Menorca in 1988 (Page Iberica SA). Those jobs were to operate in parallel with Sat links and ultimately close down USAF Comm installations in Spain, Italy, Northern Greece and NW Turkey.
I attach some photos of me and the Control console at DYE4 in the 60's. I also worked at DYE3 on the ice cap of Greenland during 1962, 63 & 64. I left the DEWEAST sector in 1965. Between what I have and many other pictures gleaned from old pals and miscellaneous sources, I have quite a collection of interesting shots.Note the '06 shot of DYE3 (abandoned and nearly buried in the snow). For some strange reason I was especially fond of the Ice Cap. Regards, Ed Hess (At Work)
Note from the SysOp, Ed you can post your own photos by snagging a membership in the forums area and uploading them to the Gallery, if you want I will create your own Album. You are on the ExReps Map, you will have to use the little hand to drag the map over to spain, click on the satellite view if you want to see your Island
Bill Reynolds ITT - 1963 thru 1967 Primarily at Dye 4 as Radician...Gun Club, Hi-Fi Club, built bar w/ Ed McEvoy. Built library at Dye 3. Helped w/ bar there... Helped rescue 'Steam-table Freddie'. There when he had to be put down because of 'mange'
Charles Kuhn - Page Communications Engineers Jay: Noticed that my Email is a old link and my profile need to be updated. New info is provided. Thanks in advance
Thanks a lot. I just want to say what a great job you are doing. I salute you, people like me really appreciate your efforts to bring us together. Believe me, you are not going unnoticed, we are out here reading and listening. CRC
Jay, Some of the Page Comm Engineer gronks from Phu Lam, Viet Nam taking a day off in Vung Tau, circa 1966. I'm 3rd from left,and sure would like to hear from any of the guys there or from Qui Nhon. Click the title to view
Gary W. Hibbard gwhibbard@bendbroadband.com PanAm, Tiger Airlines, TWA I was with PanAm in DaNang from 1965 through 1966. I was Station Manager and Operations Representative. Worked the R&R flights from DaNang to SE Asian countries around the area. Also worked the various contracted airline flights like Tiger Airlines, TWA, etc. on a per flight basis. ExReps Map - Bend Oregon
Instructor Flight Engineer on USAF HH/CH-53C and HH-3E Jolly Green Combat Search & Rescue helicopters. Retired USAF May 1982. I was stationed at 55th Rescue unit, Eglin AFB when I retired. Went to work for Kay & Assoc. as a Airframe Field Engineer and assigned to VC-5, Naval Air Station Cubi Point, Philippines. In August 1984, I was informed that my billet would be converted over to Civil Service and I was ask if I wanted to convert over with the job. I accepted and switched over to OPM as a GS-802-11 in December 1984.
I stayed in the Philippines until October 1989. VC-5 had a variety of aircraft. We were the agressor squadron for the Pacific Naval Forces. I was the Airframe Tech Rep on two of the helicopters in the squadron. I worked on the Navy HH-53E and the SH-3D/G helicopters. I was responsible for the training/troubleshooting and repair of entire aircraft excluding the Avionics portion. I also taught and preformed blade tracking and balance.
My area of responsibility covered The Pacific Ocean from Guam to Japan, The Indian Ocaean, Diego Garcia to India and Oman and any US Navy ship that had the model I worked on. I was transferred to the NAESU Detachment at MCAS New River October 1989. I was also cross trained into the AH-1W Super Cobra and the UH-1N Huey Marine Corps helicopters. While I was attached to MCAS New River, I was responsible for the East Coast from the Mississippi River to Bermuda. I also made a trip to Haifa, Israel on a Tech Assist. In August 1995 I was diagnosed with Type II Diabetes and was disability retired from Civil Service on 3 November 1995.
India marked its presence on Moon tonight to be only the fourth nation to scale this historic milestone after a Moon Impact Probe
with the national tri-colour painted successfully landed on the lunar surface after being detached from unmanned spacecraft Chandrayaan-1.
In this century a number of events could extinguish humanity. The probability of these events may be very low, but the expected value of preventing them could be high, as it represents the value of all future human lives. We review the challenges to studying human extinction risks and, by way of example, estimate the cost effectiveness of preventing extinction-level asteroid impacts.
TechCrunch points us to the news that the Ontario transportation board has sided with the bus company and fined PickupPal. It's also established a bunch of draconian rules that any user in Ontario must follow if it uses the service -- including no crossing of municipal boundaries -- meaning the service is only good within any particular city's limits.
PASADENA, Calif., (NASA) — NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit communicated via the Mars Odyssey orbiter today right at the time when ground controllers had told it to, prompting shouts of “She’s talking!” among the rover team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Google Earth has added to its software a 3-D simulation that painstakingly reconstructs nearly 7,000 buildings of ancient Rome, including the Colosseum, the Forum and the Circus Maximus, officials said Wednesday.
Susan Crawford, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and Kevin Werbach, a former FCC staffer, organizer of the annual tech conference Supernova, and a Wharton professor, will lead the Obama-Biden transition team's review of the FCC.- Susan Crawford - Kevin Werbach
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Cynthea Pollock "Thea" I am
hoping to reach a Mr. John Stephenson who worked with my mother, Rita
Dearborn, at Philco Ford in the mid 60's. thank thee,
Normandy Landing Certificate of Appreciation -
If
there are fellow t/r's (as old as i) that served with the US forces
during the Normandy landings or duty on Normandy during the period
1944-1945, send the French consulate a photo copy of your discharge and
you will receive a very nice certificate of appreciation from the French
government. The address is Consulat General De France A Los Angeles,
10999 Wiltshire Boulevard, suite 300, Los Angles, CA 900243-3918 . Web
site at Http://www.consulfrance-losangeles.org.
Bob
Vogt Phoenix Cripes2@aol.com .
Cold War Certificate of Recognition -
If you
served as a member of the US Armed Forces between 1945 and 1991,
you are eligible for a certificate of recognition from the department of
defense. Click here
to see what it looks like, Click here
to visit the DoD website that tells you how to apply.
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Jerry Howell at Philco Corporate
HQ 1963
Philco 2000 module 211 computer system
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November 2008 - Once
again ExReps has kinda gotten away from me, am working on catching up
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