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A SECRET NAVAL STATION IN HAIKU VALLEY.
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David Jessup > PAGE ONE TOP PORTIONHaiku Naval Radio Station (located south west of Kaneohe on Oahu, Hawaii) utilized an Alexanderson Very Low Frequency Alternator to send radio signals to submarines while they remained underwater as far away as Tokyo Bay.
David Jessup > PAGE ONE LOWER PORTION Both Len Hardy and Ted Urquhart (Featured in the SAILORS OF HAIKU NRS gallery) climbed the wooden ladder pinned to the south valley wall many times. They also serviced the Alternator and the TCG backup vacuum tube transmitter.
David Jessup > HAIKU NAVAL RADIO STATION 1946 photo
David Jessup > Haiku Valley is located on the windward (East) side of the Island of Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands. The cliffs surrounding the valley stand over 2500 feet above the valley floor.
David Jessup > HAIKU NAVAL RADIO STATION 1946 photo
David Jessup > January 20, 1943 Haiku Valley. View North-west from 9,000 feet .Several roads have been cut the length of the valley. Antenna Anchor construction sites are barely visible on both the south and north ridges. Notice the razor thin edge at the top of the cliff. Photo preserved and submitted by Tom Mersinger.
David Jessup > Same photo cropped.Notice the residue streaming down the cliff from the new antenna anchor sites. Photo courtesy of Tom Mersinger.
David Jessup > January 1943. Construction of five antennas, each over a mile in length, had just begun. Each antenna reached across to the North side of the valley. The hoist ran down into the valley and transported all the material for the huge antenna anchor counterweights: shown here protected by tents. More photos of the hoist follow.Photo from Fort DeRussy Army Museum Archives.
David Jessup > This view clearly shows three antenna sites. A fourth tent is barely visible just left of the CCL house(Communications Control Link) that held radio equipment designed to relay keying signals to the transmitter in the valley in an emergency. The knife like ridge made all the work both difficult and dangerous. Note that the white circular roads are 2500 feet below the ridge.
HAIKU NAVAL RADIO STATION 1946 photo
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