[Milsurplus] RAK question

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 26 Dec 2017 at 0:26, Hubert Miller wrote:

> Was it NAA at Cutler, Maine?

Yes. I remembered wrong. NSS was at Annapolis, but was closed.

>  I think Canal Zone was NBA. 
> Hawaii was NPM, and the QSL I had said 500,000 watts.

Yes. That is correct.

> ( Didn't specify in or out. )

That was output.

> 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. 

Yes.

> 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.

That is correct. I was wrong. It IS the Japanese main BC system.

I did remember NWC correctly, though. North West Cape Australia. Also known at the 
Harold E. Holt station.

I wish I had a more complete list of the calls of the various Navy VLF stations from the 1960 
- 1970 time frame. I have forgotten most of them.

Ken W7EKB

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