"I spent 2 ½ years at the Fleet ASW Cen SDIEGO (FASWS SDIEGO), upon which COMTRAPAC (Commander Training Command, US Pac Flt) was located. We had THE communications guard for FASWS, ComTraPac, Commander Fleet Tng. Grp SDIEGO, Fleet Anti-Air Warfare Training Cen, Fleet Computer Programming Cen PAC, Naval Electronics Lab (NEL), as well as guard for a few ships like USS TARGETEER & USS KALMIA (drone launchers)
Callsigns were:
NPL3 - 4335 kcs - A1 (CW)
Belasco - 2268 kcs - A3 (AM)
RUWDE - online routing indicator
OMYF - "pony loop" TTY with COMFLETRAGRU SDIEGO.
The CW circuit was silenced in mid 1964 (rats!), but I’ve attached photos of the UNCLAS area - RBA, RBB, RBC receivers + a TCS xmtr/rcvr/coupler which had originally been used to communicate on Harbor Common (2716 kcs - A3). At one time, they even had a TELESCOPE for reading light!
I came there an RMSN, straight out of RM-A school (6/63), and left an RM2 (1/66). The command was disestablished in 6/98 (I was invited to attend.. and DID), and the upper deck (formerly the commcen) STILL smelled from that curious scent of Eau d' Electronique... [Navy electronic equipment, teletype tape, Model 28 lube grease, stale coffee, full ashtrays, and mimeograph fluid] - The outside antenna mount for the "Standard 35' whip" (for the TCS) was still there, as well as the feedthru insulator through the building wall.
