Navy Radio Transmitting Facility Totsuka

Navy Radio Transmitting Facility Totsuka: "Navy Radio Transmitting Facility Totsuka is the only Navy HF Facility on the Kanto Plain in Japan. "

AN/FCC-17 Multiplexer 1961 History

1961 History:

"AN/FCC-17 Multiplexer RADC developed the AN/FCC-17 solid state frequency-division multiplexer. Expandable from 12 to 600 communications channels, this was the first device with the capability of 100 percent data loading."

Microwave 'C' School

NAVetsUSA Member:

"Served 69-75
went to Great Lakes Training center,
Bootcamp, ET school and Microwave 'C' School
Stationed in Thurso Scotland 70-75
Honorably discharged Feb.1975 "

Telephone repairperson at Negishi Microwave near Tokyo

"Yona was 23 when she enlisted," Stout continued. "She came from North Carolina and enlisted for the GI benefits, the same as I had. She was working as a telephone repairperson at Negishi Microwave near Tokyo.

Yokohama Microwave Relay - Kizarazu site was unmanned

Online Journal Ray Plumlee Personal Web Site:

"A little rememberance. The first time I went to a Ripley's Believe It Or Not Museum was in 1972 on the Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, California. My then wife and newborn son were awaiting transportation to Yokohama, Japan where I had change of station orders to be stationed at what I thought was a remote Microwave Relay Station and Tandem Telephone swithching center in Kizarazu, Japan. I later found out I was actually going to be working at the Yokohama Microwave Relay and Tandem Switching Station at Negishi Heights, near the Yokohama Grandstand, as the Kizarazu site was unmanned. The Navy manpower people had used it as a slight of hand maneuver to increase manning for the Navy Telecommunications Command in Yokosuka."

Yokosuka Microwave Site "Cat"

Yokosuka Microwave Site:

"I don't remember a cat either. However, (even though it has been 34 years since I last saw him) as soon as I saw his picture I instantly recognized him. I had forgotten how that one ear of his was always flopped over.

I glad that you had pictures of him Dave because they are probably the only ones in existence."