US Navy Communication Stations
- NAVCOMSTA or NAVCOMMSTA or NAVCOMFAC or
NAVCOMMU
Naval Communication Station or Naval Communication Facility or Naval
Communications Unit - main control site and message handling
centers
- NAVRADSTA or NAVRADFAC
Naval Radio Station or Naval Radio Facility - transmitter or receiver remote sites
- NRTF
Naval Radio Transmitter Facility - transmitter site
- NRRF
Naval Radio Receiver Facility - receiver site
- NAVSECGRU - Not covered on this web site - (Interception sites)
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FRR-49 rcvrs at Wahiawa, HI
photo from TMC
vintage radio web site |
FRR-38 and FRR-40 dual diversity receiver systems at Salinas, PR - 1968
photo thanks to George Langenbrunner |
FRT-40 transmitters at Barrigada, Guam |
Message processing at Finegayan, Guam |
US Naval Communication System
1964 Fleet Broadcast Areas
1957 Naval Communication System TTY Network
US Navy Communication Stations
1954 "Shore-Based Communications"
manual - NAVPERS 10891
COMMSTA Functional Organization Chart
COMMSTA Physical Organization Chart
COMMSTA Building Plans and Equipment Layout
- from 1956-60 NAVSHIPS 92675 "Handbook of Naval Shore Station
Electronics Criteria"
NAVCOMMSTA Nea Makri - thanks to Mike Ellis
US Navy Communication Stations - with associated sites when known
1952 Naval
Communication System Activities - list of facilities 
- Miscellaneous photos page
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- AK - Kodiak (NHB) - photos
& info
- AK - Buskin Lake transmitter site - photo
- AK - Buskin Beach (Holiday Beach) receiver site
- AK - Kodiak VLF transmitter site
- AK - Adak (NUB) - patch,
photo
- AK - Mount Moffett transmitter site (NHC & NUD) - patch,
photo
- AK - Clam Lagoon receiver site
- CA - San Francisco (NPG) - moved to Stockton 1962
- CA - Stockton VLF transmitter (NPG)
- CA - Mare Island transmitter site (moved to Dixon)
- CA - Dixon transmitter site - info
- CA - Skaggs
Island (Sonoma) receiver site (NAP & NAG) - photos
and info
- CA - San Diego (NPL) early
history and photos
- CA - Chollas Heights transmitter site - info,
1917 photo
- CA - Imperial Beach receiver site - FRD-10 Wullenweber array used by
both NAVSECGRU and COMMSTA
- DC - Washington (NSS) patch
- DE - Lewes (NNQ) est. 1963
- DE - Lewes - tropo link for CC ships
- VA - Arlington transmitter site (NAA) - history,
replaced by Cutler in 1956 - early photo
of towers
- MD - Annapolis HF & VLF transmitter
site (NSS) - great photos, more photos,
more photos,
1920 photo of towers, more info
- MD - Cheltenham receiver site - replaced by Sugar Grove in 1969 - info,
patch
- WV - Sugar Grove receiver site (two FRD-10 Wullenweber arrays) 1969-90 - history
- FL - Key West (NAR) - history,
early photo of towers
- FL - Saddlebunch Key transmitter site - site photo
- HI - Pearl Harbor (NPG) - history
- IL - Great Lakes (NAJ) -closed 1958- early
photo of towers
- LA - New Orleans (NAT) -closed 1959
- LA - Belle Chase receiver site
- MA - Boston Navy Yard (NAD) - closed 1958
- MA - Squanton transmitter site
- ME - Winter Harbor, Bass Harbor, Corea (NQC)
- ME - Cutler VLF transmitter site (NAA) - info,
antenna design, photo, patch
- NC - NAVRADSTA Lola (Cedar Island) - tropo link for CC ships - est 1968
- ND - LaMoure VLF transmitter site (NML4) - info
- NJ - Trenton 82B1 teletype automatic switching system - opened 1958
- NJ - Cape May
- NY - Brooklyn Navy Yard (NAH) - closed 1958 - photos
here
- NY - Bellmore, Long Island receiver site
- PA - Philadelphia (NAI) - closed 1958
- RI - Newport
- MA - NAVRADSTA Cape Cod (Otis AFB) - tropo link for CC ships - est
1968
- SC - Charleston (NAO) - closed 1959
- VA - Norfolk (NAM) - patch
- VA - Northwest receiver site
- VA - Driver (Monogram) transmitter site - info
- WA - Seattle (NPC)
- WA - Battle Point, Bainbridge Island - closed 1959
- WA - Puget Sound (NHB) patch
- WA - Jim Creek (Arlington) VLF transmitter site (NLK) - patch,
info,
video, more info/photos
- WA - Marietta receiver site (NAVSECGRU only?)
- WI - Clam Lake ELF transmitter site - info
- MI - Republic ELF transmitter site - photos
- Puerto Rico - (NAU) Info and Photo
Page
- Puerto Rico - San Juan comm station
- Puerto Rico - Fort Allen comm station
- Puerto Rico - Roosevelt Roads comm station
- Puerto Rico - Martin Pena transmitter site
- Puerto Rico - Isabela transmitter site
- Puerto Rico - Carolina receiver site
- Puerto Rico - Salinas receiver site
- Puerto Rico - Aguada VLF transmitter site
- Puerto Rico - Sabana Seca receiver site (NAVSECGRU only?)
- Cuba - Guantanamo Bay (NEN)
- Panama - Balboa (NBA) - web site
- Panama - Summit transmitter site
- Panama - Gatun VLF transmitter site
- Panama - Farfan receiver site
- Bermuda
- British West Indies - Trinidad
- Canada - Argentia, Newfoundland - estab. 1963
- Mariana Islands - Guam (NPN)
- Mariana Islands - Finegayan, Guam control and receiver site (NPN) - info,
more info
and photos
- Mariana Islands - Barrigada, Guam transmitter site - photos
- Midway - Eastern Island (NQR) - estab. 1963
- Marshall Island - Kwajalein
- Japan - Yokosuka (NDT)
- Japan - Totsuka (Totuka) VLF transmitter site - info,
patch
- Japan -Yosomai (Yosami) transmitter site
- Japan - Kamiseya (Kami Seya) receiver site
- Japan - Awase, Okinawa transmitter site - info,
photos
- Japan - Ryukyu Retto, Okinawa
- Korea - Chinhae patch
- Philippines - San Miguel (NPO) patch,
another patch
- Philippines -
- Hong Kong
- Vietnam - NAVCOMMSTA Saigon - 1963
Info
- Vietnam - NAVCOMMSTA Cam Ranh Bay "Bow Line" - photos,
history
& many photos
- Vietnam- NAVCOMMFAC Da Nang "Sea Anchor"
- Vietnam - Danang East "Triangle Building" comm center
- Vietnam - Marble Mountain transmitter site
- Vietnam - Monkey
Mountain receiver site - sign
- Australia - Harold E. Holt, Exmouth (NWC) - patch,
info,
photos
- Iceland - Keflavik - info,
patch
- Iceland - Little Rock receiver site - info
- Iceland - Rockville receiver site - info
- Iceland - Grindavik transmittter site - info
- Germany - Bremerhaven NAVCOMMU - Northeast Atlantic ship-shore traffic in
1950's
- Great Britain - London England
- Greece - Nea Makri control and receiver site (NGR) - closed 1990 - web
site, cool web site with 3D models
- Greece - Kato Souli transmitter site
- Italy - Naples (NNI) - estab. 1962
- Italy - Sigonella
Sicily - info,
more info,
patch
- Italy - Niscemi Sicily transmitter site - info
- Spain - Rota control and receiver site - estab. 1962 patch
- Spain - Moron transmitter site - estab. 1962
- Spain - Guadamar Del Segura LF transmitter
site - estab. 1962
- Ethiopia (Eritrea) - Asmara/Kagnew (NKA) 1948-1977 - web
site
- Morocco - Port Lyautey - (NHY) - estab. 1947 - web
site
- Morocco - Sidi Yahia control and receiver site (NHY
& CNL) - web
site, patch
- Morocco - Boukanadel transmitter site photos
- Libya - Tripoli NAVCOMMU - Mediterranean ship-shore traffic in 1950's
- Saudi Arabia - Dhahrain NAVCOMMU - Arabian Sea ship-shore traffic in
1950's
- Indian Ocean - Diego Garcia, BIOT (NKW), patch
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Links to be sorted and added -
Arlington & Chollas Heights towers -
http://www.shorpy.com/node/5457
Williams Air Operating Facility (McMurdo Station) 1956 -
http://photolibrary.usap.gov/AntarcticaLibrary/RADIOSHACKB1956.JPG
http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1690
Point Isabel TX -
http://cameroncountyhistoricalcommission.org/BeginningOfNavyRadioComm.htm
Misc -
http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=int&q=navcommsta&m=text
