| World / USA / New Jersey / Beach Haven West, 4 km from center | Coordinates: 39°41'56"N 74°12'2"W |
Photos of the Manahawkin receiving and control station of former HF Coastal radio station WOO. This is also a cable landing station for several submarine cables including TAT-9 and TAT- 11 and a cable to Bermuda. Receiving antennas here are mostly directional rhombics (suspended from wooden poles) with some omnidirectional monocones and an omnidirectional log-periodic. The HF station has been shut down since 1999. Transmitting antennas and transmitters were located up the coast in Ocean Gate and operated by remote control. Microwave link to Barnegat and on to Stone Tavern, and L carrier cable connected the station to the AT&T network. TAT-11 remains the only active cable at this station. See the page on Tuckerton for more information on submarine cables.
Radio operators here communicated with ships at sea to provide radiotelephone and other communications services over long-range HF radio, where the radio signals bounce off the Earth's ionosphere to distant locations. Prior to the widespread installation of submarine telephone cables, this station, and others at Netcong and Lawrenceville NJ, also provided long distance telephone service to foreign countries not reachable via cable. With satellite communications and undersea fiber optic cables extending practically everywhere, there is no longer a need for HF radiotelephone links to most ships or to foreign countries.
www.coldwarcomms.org/miscellaneous/Manahawkin/Manahawki...
www.long-lines.net/places-routes/ManahawkinNJ/index.htm...
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