Early DYE-5 Location

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This is the original location of DYE-5. It used parabolic wire mesh antennas unlike the later site that used the large billboard antennas typical of DYE and NARS sites.

Permanent (later) location of DYE-5/NARS 41 is due south of this location on the coast.

Some Air Force hsitorical documents refer to this location as "Inter-island Tropo Site" instead of DYE-5; Probably to distinguish from DYE-5's later location.
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Coordinates:   64°2'29"N   22°38'53"W

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  • Wrong on both accounts. The DYE-5 (co-located with NARS 41) tropospheric communications operation was only located at Stafnes communicating with DYE-4 in Greenland and NARS Site 42 at Stokksnes, Iceland. The marked site on this map is the locaton of the former US Naval Security Group Activity high-frequency direction finding system station, Keflavik. The station helped Navy code breakers track radio signals from aircraft and ships and intercept voice and message traffic from short-wave channels in the Norwegian Sea area. The intra island communications tropospheric communications site that had mesh-type circular antenna as mentioned was located farther south and just east of the H-1 radar site Rockville, also depicted. This site connected the three original 1950-s radar sites in Iceland, H-2, H-3 and H-4 with the co-located master direcion center at H-1 Rockville. Site H-4 was closed in 1960 and H-2 in 1970 and this tropo station was closed in the early 1970's as a result since DYE-5 and NARS Site 42 interconnected the remaining H-1 and H-3 radar sites and these with US and NATO air defense systems in both directions across the North-Atlantic.
  • I recently added (2015) to google earth a photo of the tropo antennas from Dye-5 taken in 1965. I couldnt remember exactly where the site was located on the peninsula except it was right on the water. I actually added the photo pretty close to the the location shown above without seeing this article beforhand. Bob Gradi, ex USN Radioman stationed at Keflavik in 1963/64.
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