--- In coldwarcomms@yahoogroups.com, "ozob99" <ozob99@...> wrote:
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> --- In coldwarcomms@yahoogroups.com, "atomicveteran" <atomicveteran@> wrote:
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> > Two ships were uniquely configured and assigned to National Emergency
Command Post Afloat (NECPA) duties. I understand that the NECPA ships had
state-of-the-art communications (for the time, operational 1958-1970 approx.).
The sister ships USS Northampton (CC-1)5 and USS Wright (CC-2) alternated the
alert duty every two weeks as a potential floating White House/Pentagon. The
NECPA strategy was to keep one of the ships somewhere off the East Coast. With
only the customary naval acknowledgments, just outside of Norfolk, the ships
would silently sail past each other as the alert ship was relieved in order to
enter port for replenishing and much needed rest and recreation for the crew.
> > Both the Wright and the Northampton had a huge dish-like structure used for
Troposphere Scatter Communications (TROPO.) There were land based TROPO dish
sites located in Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Delaware.
> > I'm doing some research on the NECPA (aka "Doomsday Ships")and am especially
interested in the TROPO site at Fort Miles Delaware. Does anyone have any
additional information/pictures, especially of the Fort Miles TROPO site? I've
got conflicting information but have been told the Fort Miles TROPO site was
first built of the 3 sites and had the largest antenna. Thank you, Mike
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> Search the archive here with Lewes rather than Ft Miles;several postings on
NECPA are there; the photo site "http://www.subvets.org/News/NECPA.jpg"
referenced in one of the posts is 404, but may still exist in one of the
web/photo archive sites.
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Found the picture using your recommendation.....THANK YOU!