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Walt Mitchell, a
1965-1967 alumnus of the Yamanlar Tropo Site outside Izmir provided
one of the most interesting documents I've seen in a long
time regarding US Military tropospheric radio sites in Turkey,
namely a circuits diagram.
This 24" X 48" chart
called "Wideband Systems", issued in 1965, by the EAME, predecessor
to the European Communications Division, shows every US military
radio site from Norway and Scotland, south to Wheelus AB in Libya
and East to Trabzon and Diyarbakir in eastern Turkey.
Since the chart is so large, I scanned
it in two parts to show how the radio system spanned Greece and
Turkey in particular. Once you see how many sites
communicated with TUSLOG Detachment 150, you'll see
why we always said we provided more than 80% of the
communications to the US Forces in Turkey and the Turkish General
Staff.
The Greece and Western-Central Turkey circuit diagram
appears here.
The Eastern Turkey circuit diagram appears
here.
For those who don't have the list
memorized anymore, here's the roll of major US military radio sites
in Turkey between 1962 and 1995:
ANK - ANKARA, ADA - ADANA, CZK -
CERKEZHUYUK, DAG - ELMADAG, EBA - ESSENBOGA, INK - INCIRLIK, ISL -
ISTANBUL, SAM- SAMSUN, SNP - SINOP, STI - SAHIN TAPESI (aka
SAHINTEPE), TAL - ALEMDAG, TCO - CORLU, TDY - DIYARBAKIR, TES -
ESKESEHIR, TGO - COLCUK, TIC - CIGLI, TID - IZMIR, TIZ - IZMIT,
TKR - KARAMURSEL, TMA - MALATYA, TZN - TRABZON
Other sites came and went over the
years including BAL at Balikesehir, CAK (pronounced "chock")
at Cakmakli (pronounced "chock-mock-lee") and ESK at Eskesehir,
which all communicated with TUSLOG Det 150. Alemdag was also
known by a different call sign, namely "A-L-E", but was never, for
some reason, called "ale" like the drink!
A big tip of the hat to Walt for
sending along this very interesting document! -- Bluejeans
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