[ARC5] NLK, Jim Creek near Oso WA

[Hubert Miller]

It has been a LONG time, but what i remember was,
VVV VVV VVV NPG/NLK

This is from memory, but i do NOT remember DE being in there. We had some discussion on the milsurplus group over the lack of DE but this is the way i remember it. It was about 20 - 22 WPM, perfect sending. I think the freq was 19.8 kcs.  I'm sure my reception report helped out the U.S. Navy a great deal ! I mean, if i could not copy in Seattle their 500,000 watt signal, something was really wrong.
Some years later, like early 90s, i recall driving to work late at night, with some marginal AM station on the car radio. At certain dips in the road from Woodinville to Bellevue WA the AM BC station went way down and i could hear TTY in the background. I still wonder if that was NLK.
The antique radio club Seattle based had a 3D model of the NLK station and mountains antenna  on a board base something like 6 by 3 foot. When the club lost permission to use the Ronald School room for their museum, everything had to go, and i don't know where this model went. This wd be sonetime in the mid 1990s ? I had moved east and was out of touch.
While i was living in Omaha 6 months ( That was plenty. Sorry ! ) my time serendipitously corresponded with the short existence of 'Keystone Bibliopolist' in the "Keystone" neighborhood of Omaha. I was pleased to be able to buy the complete run of USN 'Electron' magazine, which was only something like 7 years postwar. The owner of Keystone had his house's entire basement full of military electronics manuals. He knew the man who had been editor of Electron, but was now in bad shape and not long for the planet, and had gotten the set from him -- maybe all the other manuals too. If you the reader have been in such situations, you know you have to throw penny pinching to the wind because such opportunities strike but few times during our lives. I bought the Electron and a bunch of others - i'm sure "not enough". After a decade or so of enjoying Electron and gloating, i donated them to Nick, of the wondrous 'Navy Radio' website. He scanned them - a truly stupendous task, i think - and then passed them on to, i think, AWA. There is an article in an early Electron, which the reader might find interesting and fun, abt the building of NLK. I have to wonder what it would be like to have your car parked in front of one of the NLK buildings in the NLK valley with many volts of RF all over everything.
When the NPG model was still at Ronald School i remember someone telling me that in that valley the vegetation was especially lush due to the RF stimulation. Uh huh, definitely maybe.
I am remembering now one winter maybe 1 to 2 decades ago and there was a big earthslide at Oso. I think a bunch of houses were covered and not all victims were ever recovered. But that's another digression from my digression.
-Hue Miller



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