[GreenKeys] USN Floating tape relay

[Nick England]

I am fascinated by tape relay centers as well as with US Navy
communications. Killing both birds with one stone, I have just added some
photos of the tape relay spaces aboard USS Arlington AGMR-2.
http://www.navy-radio.com/ships/agmr2.htm#archive

These photos were evidently taken during installation - One shot is of the
crypto equipment bays before the crypto gear (KW-26) was installed. There
are lots of MITE machines in this compartment that would have been used for
order-wire and monitoring, but the rest of the photos show Teletype Corp.
equipment.

The Arlington was one of two major communication relay ships that sat off
the coast of Viet Nam in the 1960s. It was converted from an aircraft
carrier with the flight deck becoming an antenna farm and the hangar deck
filled with dozens of radio receivers, transmitters, and 1200 (!) pieces of
teletype gear.

Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com
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