NAVRADSTA Haʻikū Communications Control Link Building

 Second World War 1939-1945, radio station, interesting place, closed / former military, United States Navy

Beginning in 1942, contractors for the U.S. Navy began construction of the Haʻikū Radio Station, a top secret facility that was to be used to transmit radio signals to U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet. To accomplish this, they needed “easy” access to the top of the ridges, so they installed a wooden ladder up the mountain. The ladder was later replaced by a wooden staircase, and later steel, now known as Haiku Stairs.

Naval Radio Station Haiku was commissioned in December 1943. Messages to merchant ships, weather reports to naval ships, and dispatches to submarines were broadcast from here. The Communications Control Link was used to communicate with NAVRADSTA Wahiawa. NAVRADSTA Haiku closed in 1958.

The site was later commissioned on February 27, 1975 as U.S. Coast Guard Omega Station Haiku and decommissioned on 30 September 1997 as the the Coast Guard moved on to GPS as its preferred method of navigation.

The station and trail were closed to the public in 1997.

www.haikustairs.org/historical-data
www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/haiku.htm
www.midweek.com/history-aboard-haiku-trolley-omega-stat...