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NOG USCG Secondary Radio Station - Sault Ste. Marie, MI
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is a view of USCG Secondary Radio Station NOG at Sault Ste. Marie,
Mich. The wooden pole at the left was our end fed wire
support, the CW radio office was in the left rear. We had a
thriving CW net for Coast Guard vessels on 4337 kHz.
The whole front dock area was Captain of the Port Office, they handled all of the VHF Radio traffic in the river controlling up-bound and down-bound vessel traffic transiting the River in concert with Lock Master for Soo Locks. At one point in the 70s the building was removed and CW ended. The VHF system was moved to the barracks building structure behind the building. The large cement structure center has an elevator to the top and a sightseers hangout for great pictures of the canal region. I took this picture from one of the Soo Locks Tour Boats, it was an overcast day. This station worked in concert with NMD at Chesterland (Cleveland) OH and NMP at Northbrook IL (Chicago). Our CW net was always busy daytime and nights. |
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In this NOG console photo, the receivers were Collins 51J4 and the transmitter was rated at 300 watts with a single 4-400 in the final. There was a 24 hour tape recorder in the center of the console on 2182 kHz voice distress. A closed circuit Bell System landline teletype network connected NOG to Cleveland HQ. There was no reperforator. The operator had to send hot, on line. |
All Information and images on this page are from Bob Ballantine, W8SU
Wess Wessling's USCG Patch Archive has these patches for Group Sault Ste. Marie:
Does anyone have any more information on or pictures of this station?
