[Milsurplus] USN radio in Vladivostok

[Joe Connor]

For anyone interested, here is a good article from American Heritage magazine on the ill-fated American Expeditionary Force in Russia. 
http://www.americanheritage.com/content/yanks-siberia


Joe Connor
On Saturday, April 5, 2014 7:47 PM, Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com> wrote:
 
NPH - U. S. Naval Radio Station, Russian Island (Vladivostok) - from a 1919
>report
>
>U. S. Naval Radio Station, Russian Island (Call sign NPH):
>Located on Russian Island, Siberia (Vladivostok). Equipped with a 60 kw arc
>set, and a 12 kw arc set. At the present time no permanent wave lengths
>have been assigned.
>
>Radio Communication: Tests are being made to establish schedules for this
>station. At the present time communicatim is effective with Peking, Cavite,
>Guam and with ships within range of the station. Can communicate with St.
>Paul and Cordova, Alaska. Signals are very weak from those stations, but it
>is expected to establish effective communications in the near future.
>
>Recommendations have been made to lay a cable from the station to
>Vladivostok, a distance of about fifteen miles, for both telephone am
>telegraph service. It is expected that this cable will be laid by winter
>(1919). The Vladivostok end will be at the headquarters of the American
>Expeditionary Forces, with a loop to a U. S. ship in port. Telephone
>communications may be had at the Russian Island Red Cross Hospital, about
>one mile from the station, which connects to Vladivostok by cable.
>
>Comment: This station will probably handle commercial traffic as well as
>Government traffic. It is of military value in furnishing communication to
>and from the American Expeditionary Forces in Siberia, and for
>communicating with vessels of the Fleet in Chinese and Japanese waters.
>
>This station was taken over from the Russian Government, and was equipped
>with apparatus furnished by the Navy Yard, Mare Island, and equipment taken
>from the Heeia Point Station, Honolulu and was commissioned about 30 May
>1919.
>
>Nick England K4NYW
>www.navy-radio.com
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