I flew SH-3 ASW helicopters from Quonset Point RI from '67 through '71 and later. Occasionally we would go 100 to 150 miles out to sea for excercise with submarines. TUK on the LF radio got us home (ARN-6 I think).

Roy Morgan
K1LKY Western Mass
K1LKY68@gmail.com

> On Feb 25, 2023, at 12:27 PM, David Stinson <arc5@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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>> On 2/25/2023 11:22 AM, mstangelo@comcast.net wrote:
>> The Consolan station TUK , on Nantucket island, was always a power house on the east coast.
>
> Back in the 1980s when our West Coast LOWFER group was
> breaking records on the 160KC-190KC License-Free band,
> many of us used TUK as a frequency standard.
> Yes; winter season you could count on TUK making it
> coast-to-coast if you were in a quiet listening location.
>
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