{"id":32660,"date":"2018-06-06T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=32660"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:23:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:23:57","slug":"white-alice-communications-system-a-precursor-to-usaf-sat-comms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/white-alice-communications-system-a-precursor-to-usaf-sat-comms\/","title":{"rendered":"White Alice Communications System: a precursor to USAF sat comms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_32664\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/the-st-lawrence-island-site-author-640x374.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32664\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32664\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/the-st-lawrence-island-site-author-640x374.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/the-st-lawrence-island-site-author-640x374.jpg 640w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/the-st-lawrence-island-site-author-640x374-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/the-st-lawrence-island-site-author-640x374-624x365.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The St Lawrence Island site. Author: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Digital Visual Library (via Abandoned Spaces)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Steven Crawford, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Came across this article about a communications system that was a precursor to sat comms for the Air Force and thought it may be of interest to your followers.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abandonedspaces.com\/industry\/white-alice-communications-system-one-of-the-predecessors-of-satellite-communication.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abandoned Spaces<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Equipped with up to 80 radio stations, this remnant of the Cold War once served as a tropospheric scatter communications system using microwave relay. Its location, Alaska. It was initially constructed during the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The United States Air Force saw great benefit from this communication system for it improved their communication tremendously. Years before this system was installed, Alaska had only the essentials when it came to communication systems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It wasn\u2019t until Bell Systems came up with their design for the U.S.A.F. that Alaska would receive proper communications links. The name White Alice Communications System in itself is an acronym made up of the following words \u2013 White, for it was used in the snow-covered land of Alaska, and Alice, that stands for Alaska Integrated Communications and Electronics.[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abandonedspaces.com\/industry\/white-alice-communications-system-one-of-the-predecessors-of-satellite-communication.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue reading at Abandoned Spaces.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Many thanks for sharing this, Steven!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Steven Crawford, who writes: Came across this article about a communications system that was a precursor to sat comms for the Air Force and thought it may be of interest to your followers. (Source: Abandoned Spaces) Equipped with up to 80 radio stations, this remnant of the Cold War [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3,288],"tags":[4091,5031,5347,7092],"class_list":["post-32660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-news","category-radio-history","tag-radio-history","tag-steven-crawford","tag-usaf","tag-white-alice-communications-system"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8uM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12326,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/catching-a-usaf-hf-gcs-transmission-in-morocco\/","url_meta":{"origin":32660,"position":0},"title":"Catching a USAF HF-GCS transmission in Morocco","author":"Thomas","date":"February 17, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"My buddy,\u00a0@K7al_L3afta\u00a0(on Twitter), posted this interesting recording of the US Air Force\u00a0High Frequency Global Communications System\u00a0on 15,016 kHz USB at 18:01 UTC yesterday: I don't believe I've ever heard or noticed this type of USAF HF-GCS transmission before. \u00a0Sounds almost like a numbers station. 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