[CW] The FBI CW Radio Network

[Benny K5KV]

A DEAR FRIEND JACK W5HEZ, NOW A SILENT KEY OPERATED A CW RADIO STATION FOR
THE BATON ROUGE, LA POLICE DEPT BEGINNING IN 1937 UNTIL THE WAR BROKE OUT.
HE TOLD ME OF SOME KIND OF WIDE AREA POLICE NETWORK THEY WERE OPERATING
IN.  MAYBE THIS WAS A FBI NETWORK?

73
BENNY K5KV

On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 8:03 AM Bill Lanahan <wa2nfn at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 1:14 AM D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:
>
>> Interesting.........the FBI was operating CW nets starting in 1942.....
>> The FBI CW Radio Network
>>
>> *by Alvin H. Grobmeier*
>>
>> The Federal Bureau of Investigation operated the FBI CW Radio Network
>> beginning in early 1957 and ending in June 1976.
>>
>> There were two sites, one for transmitting and one for receiving usually
>> located several miles apart. Locations were as follows:
>>
>>    - Albany
>>    - Albuquerque
>>    - Anchorage
>>    - Atlanta
>>    - Baltimore
>>    - Birmingham
>>    - Boston
>>    - Buffalo
>>    - Boston
>>    - Buffalo
>>    - Butte
>>    - Charlotte
>>    - Chicago
>>    - Cincinnati
>>    - Cleveland
>>    - Columbia
>>    - Dallas
>>    - Denver
>>    - Detroit
>>    - El Paso
>>    - Honolulu
>>    - Houston
>>    - Indianapolis
>>    - Jackson
>>    - Jacksonville
>>    - Kansas City
>>    - Knoxville
>>    - Las Vegas
>>    - Litttle Rock
>>    - Louisville
>>    - Memphis
>>    - Miami
>>    - Milwaukee
>>    - Minneapolis
>>    - Mobile
>>    - Newark
>>    - New Haven
>>    - New Orleans
>>    - New York
>>    - Norfolk
>>    - Oklahoma City
>>    - Omaha
>>    - Philadelphia
>>    - Phoenix
>>    - Pittsburgh
>>    - Portland
>>    - Ramona (for the San Diego FBI office)
>>    - Richmond
>>    - Sacramento
>>    - St. Louis
>>    - Salt Lake City
>>    - San Antonio
>>    - San Francisco
>>    - San Juan
>>    - Savannah
>>    - Seattle
>>    - Springfield
>>    - Tampa
>>    - FBI Washington, DC field office
>>    - FBI Headquarters, Washington, DC.
>>
>> Radio call signs were assigned by the Federal Communications Commission.
>> The Ramona/San Diego station was asssigned the call sign KMG 22.
>> Source: United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of
>> Investigation, letter of February 14, 1979 to Commander A.H. Grobmeier, US
>> Navy (Ret.)Return to...
>>
>>    - Cold War main page <http://coldwar-c4i.net/index.html>
>>
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