Early U . s . Navy shore wireless stations .

1902-1904 Location

Cape Elizabeth, Maine Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N .H. Cape Ann (Thatcher ' s Island) Navy Yard, Boston, Mass . Highland Light, Cape Cod, Hass . Nantucket Shoal Lightship T orpedo Station, Newport, R. I . M ontauk Point, Long Island Navy Yard, New York Highlands of Navesink, N .J . Cape F.e nrJ, Virginia Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va . Naval S tation, Key West, Florida Dry Tortugas, Fla . Navy Yard, Pensacola, Fla . San Juan, Puerto Rico Culebra, West Indies Naval Station, Guantanamo, Cuba Canal Zone Yerba .Buena Island (Goat Island , ) Calif.

· . Navy Yard, Mare Island, Calif. Farallon Island, Calif . Naval Station, Cavite, Philippine Islands Cabra Island, P . I . Honolulu, T . H.

190� 1906

Point Lorna, Calif� Beaufort, N o C . Charleston, S . C . Table Bluff, Oregon St . Augustine, Fla . Jupiter Inlet, Fla Navy Yard, Puget Soun:i, Wash . Point Arguello:, Cal.if . Washington, D .C . Tatoosh Island, Wash . Cape Henlopen, Delaware Cape Blanco, Oregon North Head, Wash. Naval Academy, Anna polis , Md . New Orleans, Louisiana

1912

Kodiak, Alaska Dutch Harbor, Alaska St . Paul, Alaska U nalga, Alaska St. Georgej Alaska Cardova , Alaska

Call sign

PA Fe PE ro PH PI PK PR Pr PV QN QL RD RF RK SA SD SI SL T I TG TH UT UY

T ransmitter

Slaby-Arco? 2 KW Stone

Slaby-A reo? 2 KW Stone

Sla by-A reo? Slaby-A reo? Slaby-Arco? Slaby-A reo? Slaby-Arco ? Slaby-A reo ? Slaby-A rco? Slaby-Arco?

3 5 KW De Forest Slaby-A reo?

10 KW De Forest 35 K'l'l De Forest

Slaby-Arco? 35 KW De Forest 35 K'tl De Forest

Slaby-Arco? Slaby-A reo?

5 KW Mass ie Slaby-A reo ? Slaby-Arco? Slaby-Arco?

TM (Also TL) 5 KW Hassie 5 KW Massie 5 K'w Massie 5 K'w Massie 5 KW Shoemaker 5 KW Shoemaker 3 K'w Mass ie

TK 3 KW Massie RN 15 KW Massie T D 15 K'w Massie

3 K'..l Massie TA 10 KW Massie TE 10 K'..l Mass ie

5 KW Stone 6 KW Telefunken

(between 165 and 3 00 Kc) T elefunken quenched-gap Telefunken quenched-gap T elefunken quenched-gap Telefunken quenched-gap Telefunken quenched-gap Telefunken quenched-gap

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