I was the chief operator at the USMC White Beach amateur station on Okinawa (KR6MA) from 1962 through 1963.  This was a MARS affiliate site running phone patch traffic for all military branches to the U.S. 

In 1979 I was a civilian electronics technician aboard the National Ocean Survey research vessel Miller Freeman and ran phone patch message traffic from the Bering Sea & the Pacific Ocean 

I gained a considerable amount of valuable experience through MARS.

Terry A Hempen, USMC                    Back to Top