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 (T) or receiver
(R) 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
"Transportable" 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 Commsta photos page -
includes several very early shots
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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) - photo
- 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 1960 - 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, 1969 photo of receiver
trailer (thanks to Bob Roderick)
- FL - Saddlebunch Key transmitter site - site photo
- HI - Pearl Harbor (NPG) - history,
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 - Squantum transmitter & receiver site
- ME - Winter Harbor, Bass Harbor, Corea (NQC)
- ME - Cutler VLF transmitter site (NAA) - Info
and Photo Page
- 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 - info
- RI - Sachuest Point (Middletown) receiver site - Info
Page
- RI - Beavertail Point (Jamestown) transmitter site - Info
Page
- MA - NAVRADSTA Cape Cod (Otis AFB) - tropo link for CC ships - est
1968
- SC - Charleston (NAO) - closed 1959
- VA - Norfolk (NAM) - patch,
photo of building Z-86
- WA - Seattle - 13th Naval District - Bremerton (NPC)
- WA - Puget Sound (NHB) patch
- WA - Battle Point transmitter site, Bainbridge Island - closed 1959 - photos
- WA - Jim Creek (Arlington) VLF transmitter site (NLK) - photo
- 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 (NAU)
- Puerto Rico - Sabana Seca receiver site (NAVSECGRU only?)
- Cuba - Guantanamo Bay (NEN)
- Panama - Ft. Amador, Balboa (NBA) - web site
- Panama - Summit transmitter site
- Panama - Gatun VLF transmitter site
- Panama - Farfan receiver site
- "The U.S. Naval Communications Station, Balboa (NAVCOMMSTA
BALBOA), established in 1908, is the oldest Naval Activity on the
Isthmus. It's headquarters is located adjacent to the Fifteenth Naval
District headquarters at Fort Amador and houses a facilities control
center, a message center, a cryptographic center and a fleet broadcast
center. It's receiver unit is located on the opposite side of the Canal
at Farfan while the transmitter station, Summit, is situated on the
Trans-Isthmian Highway on the continental divide. Providing
communications support for the fleet is a primary consideration of
NAVCOMMSTA BALBOA. Additionally, as a tributary of the Naval
Communications System, the station meets the communications needs of all
the commands in the area."
- 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,
more photos, terminal building photo
- 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 - Okinawa - Futenma Marine Base - moved to Naha City in 1972, then
Kadena - info
- Japan - Okinawa - Awase transmitter site (transferred from Army/Air
Force in 1966) - info,
photos
- Japan - Okinawa - NSGA Hanza receiver site
- Korea - Chinhae - patch
- Korea - Yongsan ATCU-100A - photos
- Philippines (NPO) -
- 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
- patch,
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 - Guardamar Del Segura LF transmitter
site - estab. 1962 - map
& photo of 370m tower
- Ethiopia (Eritrea) - Asmara/Kagnew (NKA) 1948-1977 - web
site
- Morocco - Port Lyautey - (NHY) - estab. 1947 - web
site
- 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
- Antarctica - McMurdo Station - photos from
1956-57
Miscellaneous Commsta photos page -
includes several very early shots
