[R-390] The BFO pitch counter dial?

[Norman Ryan via R-390]

Hi, Grayson,

Dunno what that location might be -- a transmitter site perhaps?


Here instead are coordinates to where I served:
39°39'59.6"N 32°42'31.8"E
See if this works:
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6609277,32.7121485,2333m/data=!3m1!1e3

Norman

 


On Monday, September 15, 2014 12:30 PM, Grayson Evans <wa4gvm at gmail.com> wrote:
 

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>Hey Norman,
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>There is a BIG listening station still in operation about 30km south on Ankara.  I wonder if this is the place you are talking about.  
>This is the Google map link:
>https://www.google.com/maps/@39.4008737,32.8550858,2832m/data=!3m1!1e3
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>I attached a photo of the place I got off the internet.
>I can’t find any reference to it anywhere.  Not one of the cold war submarine listening stations I think, they were in Izmir and on the coast. 
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>G. 
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>On Sep 14, 2014, at 9:37 PM, Norman Ryan via R-390 <r-390 at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
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>Eerie deja vu moment!  I might have operated one of those rigs back when the earth was still cooling (1960-61) while stationed at USASA Det 27 (Manzarali) some 20 miles south of Ankara.
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>>On Sunday, September 14, 2014 2:17 PM, Bob Camp <kb8tq at n1k.org> wrote:
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>>>Hi
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>>>As far back as the 1960’s the US has been passing R-390’s around to other nations and scrapping them out “in country”. There were a *lot* of R-390’s in Turkey back in the 1950’s and 1960’s …. I wonder why :)
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>>>Bob
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>>>On Sep 14, 2014, at 11:50 AM, Robert Newberry <N1XBM at amsat.org> wrote:
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>Grayson
>TA2ZGE - Ankara, Turkey
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