[SandRat]

Sgt. Daniel Morales (left) and Pfc. Wayne Murray, Huachuca Platoon, 518th Signal Company, 504th Signal Battalion, work on a connection outside the Fort Huachuca MARS Station.

Thom Williams

[SandRat]

Care to talk to MARS?

[petertare]

It was about all there was a few decades ago. I tried a couple times from Pacific outposts and never worked my wasy up to the head of the line. Glad our guys and gals have better comms home during deployments now. Snail mail always meant stale cookies and dated letters (but I loved them) and read them a couple dozen times.

[1ofmanyfree]

TNX SandRat, de N5SDO

[ASOC]

Thanks SR
Brings back memorys

"AFB6YPX this is AIA3TA with phone patch traffic....."

[Erasmus]

ping to the Ham listkeeper.

[JohnD9207]

Thanks my friend. Back in the day it was the only reasonable way to get a message home. The MARS station was so busy (Yongsan South Korea) that you had to schedule an appointment and pray like heck you were off duty in time to make that appointment.

Again thanks for the happy memories.

John

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

is the United States the only country that makes word sounding acronyms?

[philetus]

I called my girl from Nam-OVER

[hoagy62]

Back when I was in the Army, I was our unit's MARS operator. My call sign was AEM1HKE. I did the MARS thing for Schwaebisch Gmuend, (West) Germany, and it was a lot of fun.

However, I always found it a bit ironic that the stateside recipient station for all European traffic had the callsign WAR.