Navy Communication Station Equipment - 1950's-60's

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COMMSTA Building Plans and Equipment Layout

COMMSTA signal flow diagram
- from 1960 NAVSHIPS 92675

1971 Technical Control block diagram
- from 1971 NAVELEX 0967-391-6010

For COMMSTA to Transmitter & Receiver Site Links

1974 List of equipment used at Receiver sites
See Navy HF Receiver Page & Navy HF Diversity Receiver Page
Also see Main Vintage Navy Radio Page for info on RATT (RTTY), Teletype Equipment, Etc.

Receiver Site AF/RF Signal Distribution Units - Photos and Info	Receiver Site RF Distribution Diagram AN/FRA-3 Remotely Controlled RF Switching Group - manual ( 5 receiving positions, 40 antennas)
AN/FRQ-9 Receiver Site Monitoring Set		Please let me know if you have a copy of the manual for sale or loan for me to scan	--

1940's -RBB, RBC, RBP and RCP, RDM, REA Skaggs Island CA 1945 Guam 1944 - RAO rcvrs - take a look at the follow-on pages Wahiawa 1948	Skaggs Island, 1945
	RBP at Skaggs Island
1950's - AN/FRR-24 and AN/FRR-28 and AN/FRR-49	Triple diversity AN/FRR-24	1959 - AN/FRR-28 systems at Kodiak	AN/FRR-49 at Wahiawa
1960's - AN/FRR-59 and R-390()/URR	Salinas 1968 - AN/FRR-38 and AN/FRR-41 - AN/FRR-38 and AN/FRR-41 are R-390()-based diversity systems	Guam 1968 - R-390A receivers and AN/URA-8A RTTY converters	Guantanamo 1968 - AN/FRR-59 and R-390() with AN/URA-8A RTTY converters - also AN/FRR-60 behind RM
1970's - AN/FRR-60 & R-1051	AN/FRR-60 at Guam	R-1051/URR at Guam	1974 List of equipment used at Receiver sites The primary HF rcvrs were the AN/FRR-60 and R-1051/URR (with a few older R-390 and FRR-59 rcvrs still around) A few WRR-3 and BRR-3 LF/VLF rcvrs were in use The URA-17 was the main RTTY converter

1974 List of Equipment used at Transmitter sites
See Navy HF Transmitter Page
See Navy LF & VLF Transmitter Page
Also see Main Vintage Navy Radio Page for info on
RATT, Teletype Equipment, Etc.

AN/FRQ-3 Transmitter Site Control-Monitor Group - manual
- info and photos

Buskin Lake 1955

Barrigada 1960's

1940's - TAB, TAW, TBA, TBC, TCK, TDH, TDN (need info)	TBC - 40-50 kw, water-cooled	Guam - lots of photos Martin Pena PR Transmitters - 1950's Martin Pena, Puerto Rico	-
1950's - TEB, TEC, TEF, AN/FRT-5, AN/FRT-6, AN/FRT-18	TEC	AN/FRT-6 Guam - lots of photos	-
1960's - AN/FRT-39 & AN/FRT-40 Click here for excellent photos of NAVRADSTA(T) Bouknadel 1970 (thanks to Darian Paganelli)	AN/FRT-39 at Annapolis (photo from TMC vintage radio web site)	AN/FRT-39 at Londonderry	AN/FRT-40 at Guam
1970's - FRT-83/84/85/86	AN/FRT-85 at Guam	1974 List of Equipment used at Transmitter sites Primary HF transmitters were AN/FRT-39 and AN/FRT-40 with some AN/FRT-83, AN/FRT-84