[Milsurplus] RAK question

Hubert Miller Kargo_cult at msn.com
Mon Dec 25 19:26:15 EST 2017


Was it NAA at Cutler, Maine?  I think Canal Zone was NBA. 
Hawaii was NPM, and the QSL I had said 500,000 watts. ( Didn't specify in or out. )
NPG was Navy Radio San Francisco. NLK is Jim Creek, Oso, Washington. BTW, you may have read
about an enormous landslide in the area a couple years back, several lives lost and people just
disappeared. That's what happens in this part of the country: mudslides and waterlogged hillsides
sloughing off. 
Local lore has it that the Navy's valley at Jim Creek is especially verdant due to the diathermic heating
supplied by the station. Believe or disbelieve. I wish sometime I had tuned a crystal set to NPM's freq
and seen what voltage it delivered in the Seattle and Everett WA areas - 50 to 65 miles from NLK. 

I will forever recall in my memory the Jim Creek station call:  "VVV DE NPG/NLK"  I learned the CW character,
" / "  dahdididahdit, when I had no other reason to learn it. NPG was keyed, controlled out of S.F.

Many years later, working on landline telephone circuits in western Washington, I often heard something in
the background that sounded to me like RTTY. I think NLK. 

NHK doesn't ring a bell with me, except for "Nippon Hoso Kyokai" - Japanese Broadcast System.
-Hue 


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