[GreenKeys] AP, UPI transmitter location ?

[Duncan Brown]

When I was in Viet Nam (1967), we copied UPI & AP out of Manila on 
14.9xx Mc in our maintenance shop whenever we had a spare R-390 & CV-116 
available.  But when I got back to the states (1968-70), I could not 
find any RTTY broadcasts other than the WBR-70 weather stations (8130 Kc 
?). Our ASA company at Ft. Bragg, NC had 3 or 4 TTY monitor positions, 
each with 2 R-390s, an AN/FRA-86 converter and 2 M28 ROs. They were not 
used much, but as NCOIC of the Signal Maintenance Dept, I had to "test" 
them occasionally.

Have fun,

Duncan, K2OEQ
31J30/33F30 USASA



On 05-Dec-11 10:04, Steve wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> Back in the early 1970's I spent a lot of time copying RTTY from
> AP, UPI, TASS and other news services that were still transmitting
> on the SW bands. Does anyone know where the transmitters were
> located? What equipment was used? I know RCA had a large site on Long 
> Island and had
> assumed this was the source but have never been able to verify.
>                                      Steve
>
>
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