Links to More Navy Radio Info

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

Go to http://www.qrz.com/db/KD6TKX to see Andy's really great WW2 Navy Radio Shack
WWII Airborne Radio & Countermeasures - great site!
Radioblvd.com - Navy and other radio equipment history

"Huh? Whadya Say?: Inside a Torn Tape Relay Center"
- I think this is the best one - I really enjoyed reading this short novel about life in a Torn Tape Relay (NAVCOMMSTA Philippines Vietnam era).
  It seems like a well-written authentic story portraying the constant workload in a major relay and fleet support center.
  It's a quick (71 pages) but very interesting read
Navy Blue - Career of a Radioman from recruit to RMCS -
- Includes pretty good descriptions of Radio Shack operations aboard several ships (DE, LST, FFG) from CW to RATT eras, also some on DCA Pentagon operations
Navy Blue, Too - Career of a Radioman from RMCS to retirement as CWO-4 -
- Duty at NCS Wahiawa, activating an ATCU, duty at NWC Harold Holt - more on personnel management than operations info

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
Bella - locale - Holy Loch, Naples
Soft Duty - locale - stateside

"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
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