Map
Index
Maps, maps, have we ever got
maps! This page is the index to all the maps posted on the
site. Many of the site's other pages also contain maps or
context-related links to maps, but this is the unified listing.
Cities with
Stations: The little Marine Radiotelephone
Service pamphlets produced by AT&T contained maps
that showed the city locations of the stations. Taken
together these maps show some of the changes in the operational status
of the stations serving the US including those serving the lakes and
rivers. There are both MF/HF and VHF maps covering the period
from the late 1950s to the early 1980s as follows:
MF/HF: 1947-8 ~
Late 1950's
1966
1968
1971 1971-2 * 1974 #
1976 #
1981
VHF-FM: 1968
1974
1976
1981
Known errors in these AT&T MF/HF
maps are:
WAY -
Chicago should be included on all of the Mississippi Valley frequency
lists.
~ The
Pittsburgh station shown on this map was licensed but not on the air.
* The
ownership for WBL on this map should be (11) rather than (4).
# WAY -
Chicago should be included on this map as a Bell System station.
VHF-FM
Networks: Several of the stations (or
successors) operated multi-station remotely-controlled VHF-FM
networks. Here are maps of some of those networks:
WFN/Watercom
WGK WJG
WLC Early
WLC Late
WMI
WLO
Station
Locations: The exact locations for the stations
with links below are known, and the MS Streets and Trips program has
been used to generate maps showing the station location(s) in more
detail:
WAD
WAS
WAY
WBL
WCM-P
WCM-C
WFN
WGK WJG
WLC
WMI
Canadian
Stations: Here's a 1912 Map of Great Lakes Canadian Radio-Telegraph Stations and a 1950 Map
of the Canadian Great Lakes Stations. This (Off-Site) Map shows the 2023 Canadian MTCS VHF-FM
station locations.
This Great Lakes Radiobeacon Maps
page has 1947, 1965 and 1985 versions of the Coast Guard's maps. These are too large for cell phones.
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