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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



