[Milsurplus] AFN in the US

[ED SHARPE]

At Luke AFB AZ in th 70's  we had a  wired system that  office of  information would  crank up up at lunch time  The  chow  hall was  the  main  outlet and  a few minor  places... Our comm Sq.  was  responsible for wiring up  the amp and  speakers in  chow  hall.
Ed#  SMECC  Museum
In a message dated 1/1/2020 4:41:50 PM US Mountain Standard Time, Kargo_cult at msn.com writes:


That is very interesting. I didn't know there were any in the continental USA. I wonder what the power of this station was. 

There was an Army training base out here in western Oregon,  Camp Adair, which at its peak had a population of tens of thousands; I think it was actually Oregon's "second largest city", but even with that size, I 

have not found any evidence there was any kind of broadcast station there. ( But it started at only about 7 miles outside of Corvallis, Oregon, which did have radio stations. )

  

Many years ago, I walked the halls of an Army hospital at Ft. Lawton, WA, with a transistor radio trying to find out where station "KURE" was. These were the one-story long, wooden buildings with numerous rooms off the 

walk-through hallway, almost a kind of "shotgun shack" construction, and these buildings were all linked together, so you could walk for a long time. Some of you will remember that style construction. What I eventually

concluded was that "KURE" was a "wired broadcast" operation. I was a youngster, and didn't know much. I also recall out at a very small town on the Olympic Peninsula, trying to figure out where "LaPush Radio" was 

located. I finally figured out that actually  meant "LaPush Radio Repair". 

  

Camp Adair is now gone except for just a few buildings and a natural wetlands park. 

Fort Lewis, right in Seattle, became a park. Still has a large radar installation, Army cemetery, and a couple buildings. 

-Hue  


>Subject: [Milsurplus] AFN in the US

 

Does anyone have any information of AFN (Armed Forces Network) operations Stateside during WWII. There is plenty of info available for overseas ops in Europe and N. Africa  but information on  US station operation is scarce. Evidently there was a station in operation at Ft. Dix under the call sign WDIX.
Breck, k4che 


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