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RE, RF, RG receivers at Washington Communications Station (1932)	Arlington - Fort Myer - Radio, Va.- 1917	Arlington - Fort Myer - Radio, Va.	Arlington - Fort Myer - Radio, Va.
Arlington - Fort Myer - Radio, Va.	Arlington - Fort Myer - Radio, Va.	Arlington - Fort Myer - Radio, Va.	Arlington - Fort Myer - Radio, Va.
Arlington post card text: "The United States Naval Radio Station at Radio, Virginia. Situated at the Southwestern side of the Fort Meyer Military Reservation near Washington DC. Built by the US Navy Department (Bureau of Steam Engineering) on Land rented to the Navy Department by the War Department. Rated Power of Station ?? kilowatts. Towers, one 600 feet high, 150 feet square at the base, and two 450 feet high 120 feet square at the base, located at angles of an isosceles triangle, large tower at the apex, base of triangle 350 feet between center is towers, perpendicular to base 550? feet. Normal range, day 2000 miles, night 3000 miles, Cost about $250,000."
Annapolis - Greenbury Point 1920	Official US Navy Photo 11/25/69	Annapolis 800' antenna tower - 1954 Official US Navy Photo	Annapolis tower photo info - 1954
Navy Wireless & Marine Signal Station - Highlands, Cape Cod, Mass.	Colon, Panama	Balboa, Panama	Cavite, Philippines 1940
Guantanamo	Great Lakes St. Thomas Virgin Islands	Dutch Harbor Alaska New Orleans, 1922	Massie Wireless 5kw transmitter San Diego - Pt. Loma - 1906
Space & Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego - "The history of electronic technology began on Pt. Loma a long time before the establishment of the laboratory here in 1940. On May 12, 1906, a chief petty officer and two sailors drove a horse-drawn wagon to the downtown pier and loaded up a Massie 5-kw. transmitter/receiver, the state-of-the-art in communications. This was the new age of "wireless radiotelegraphy," which the Navy would eventually shorten simply to "radio." Many hours later, in the little station house they’d set up on top of the hill, in a spot now occupied by our technical library, just off a rutted dirt road that would someday become Catalina Boulevard and Cabrillo Memorial Drive, the equipment had been installed. The chief sat down and tapped out a hopeful message to the Mare Island Naval Radio Station. He was hopeful, because the distance record for Navy wireless communication at the time was about 125 miles, and Mare Island was 500 miles away. He was stunned by an immediate reply, and in celebration commissioned the facility as Navy Radio Station Pt. Loma."
San Diego - Chollas Heights - 1917	San Diego - Pt. Loma - 1924 San Diego - Pt. Loma - 1934	San Diego - Pt. Loma - 1942	Chollas Heights - 1922