[Milsurplus] U.S.N. Electron

[Hubert Miller]

Was looking at my stack of U.S.N. Electron magazines and i see that the 
first copy was Vol. 1 No. 1, July 1945, and the last i have is May 1952.
Is that the complete run? I was told it was. I bought my set from a man 
who knew the Navy man who started the magazine and was its editor.
This person passed away i think, in 1994.

I am considering parting with this collection. There is not a lot of 
communications articles, particularly in later copies. Mostly concerned 
with
repair facilities, radar, sonar, and such. I did find one great article 
on RADIO SEATTLE, based on Bainbridge Island, off Seattle. I was 
surprised
that this station endured that long after WW2; i believe from an article 
way way back in the Seattle times that this station was built 
specifically
for WW2 communications needs. The article said something like the 
station had the tallest tower on the West Coast and that it was used for
monitoring Japanese communications. The ELECTRON  article lists the 
transmitters used and describes the sites. I wonder if some historical 
society
for the Bainbridge community has this info. There is also an article on 
the Navy's Haiku, Hawaii VLF transmitter site. Interesting stuff to page
through. It would, i suppose, be good for the material to be online, 
altho no doubt some photo resolution might be lost.  Or is it already 
online?

I seem to know a little about the U.S. Army's radio stations at Lynnwood 
and Silver Lake, north of Seattle, and the Mackay station at
Meadowdale, and the PNB marine op station at Edmonds.  Good God, am i 
the only person left who still knows this stuff? I understand -
it doesn't pay well, knowing this trivia.
-Hue Miller
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