Links to More Navy Radio Info

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US Navy Radio 

• Rob Flory's original WWII Navy Radio web pages
   - being rebuilt after a web site crash
• Chronological History of US Naval Communications
• Naval Communication System Activities - 1952
• "The Communications Officer Afloat" - 1974 Navy film showing operations on a DE and CV
• US Navy Radioman Assoc.
• HNSA Navy Radio Documents
• Historical Radio Equipment Inventories of USS Texas
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• "History of Communications Electronics in the United States Navy" by CAPT L. S. Howeth - primarily  pre-WWII info
       (also a pdf version here)
• "Evolution of Naval Radio-Electronics and Contributions of the Naval Research Laboratory" (by Louis A. Gebhard) - 25MB pdf
• "Information at Sea: Shipboard Command and Control in the U.S. Navy, from Mobile Bay to Okinawa" - by Timothy S Wolters
        - info on introduction of radio to USN

Other Navy Radio 

• Royal Canadian Navy radio communications  
    - Jerry Proc's superb web site - includes info on some shared USN gear and sites
• HMS Collingwood Historical Collection - Royal Navy Radio and Radar
• RATT at sea in the Royal Navy (includes some USN gear) - Part One, Part Two
• http://www.godfreydykes.info - Tons of info on communications in the Royal Navy
• British Royal Navy Summaries of Data of Radio Equipment (thanks to HNSA)
  • Radio Electronics B.R. 333(1) Vol 1, 1971- download 7.9 MB pdf
  • Radar Electronics B.R. 333(1) Vol 2, 1971 - download 7.2 MB pdf
• "Electronics and Sea Power" by Vice Admiral Sir Arthur Hezlet (covers US as well as British developments)
• B40 receiver photos

Shipboard Navy Radio 

• USS The Sullivans Radio Room
• USS Missouri Radio Room restoration
• USS New Jersey Radio Room restoration

Shore Station Navy Radio

• Guam COMMSTA photos - thanks to Rodney Rood

Navy Radio Equipment

• Go to http://www.qrz.com/db/KD6TKX to see Andy's really great WW2 Navy Radio Shack
• KB0UPL's Navy Receiver Collection
• WWII Airborne Radio & Countermeasures - great site!

Navy Radar Equipment

• Navy Radar 1943
• Echo Box Design Handbook (1953) - download 50 MB pdf
• Radar EIMB (1962 NAVSHIPS 900,000.2 - 566 pages)

Navy Electrical Equipment

• Shipboard Electrical Systems (1948 NAVPERS 10864) - download 117 MB pdf

Books by Michael Ellis (spy/adventure fiction centered around Navy Radio Communications in the 1960's)

• Apollo Rises - locales -  mainly radio room of USS Columbus, also NAVRADSTA Thurso
• Nea Makri - locale -  NAVCOMMSTA Greece
• Chief Page - locales - NAVCOMMSTA Philippines & NAVRADSTA Thurso
• The Bonifacio Strait  - locale - shipboard in Sardinia
• Domestic Enemies - locale - stateside
• Spanish Nights: The Secret of Sedo Mare - locale - Sub Tender in Rota, Spain

Other books of interest

• "Electronics and Sea Power" by Vice Admiral Sir Arthur Hezlet (covers US as well as British developments)
• When Computers Went to Sea: The Digitization of the United States Navy by David L. Boslaugh (development of NTDS)
• Naval Shipboard Communications Systems by John C. Kim & Eugen I. Muehldorf (1995 book so primarily modern era)
• Shipboard Antennas by Preston E. Law
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• Sea Stories - Reminiscences of a Navy Radioman 1952-1977 by Larry Bucher
• Dark Signals - by Si Dunn - Radioman in a DE, Tonkin Gulf &South China Sea 1964-65
• Pioneering in Radio - US Navy Radio Operator in the Early 1900's - by William Medd & John Dilks
• Sea Stories - A WWII Navy Radioman Remembers - by Robert G Gillett
• Battleship Sailor - by Theodore C Mason - Radioman aboard USS California 1940-41
• War Watch: Sailing on the White Ghost of the Arabian Coast - by Herb Henson - USS LaSalle Radioman 1975-78
• Radioman: An Eyewitness Account of Pearl Harbor and World War II in the Pacific by Carol Edgemon Hipperson
  • See www.carolhipperson.com for more info and photos

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Communication equipment manuals and descriptions

• Robert Downs WA5CAB manuals (and tnx for info on various units)
• Communication Equipment Technical Manuals
• Catalogs of Communications Equipment
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Miscellaneous Info

• HNSA - Historic Naval Ships Association
• Inland Marine Radio info