I served at the Navcomsta during the period from December 1971 to November 1972. I worked in support [Seabees] at the Comstation. We had a contingent of trades in UT, CE, EO, BU, UT et al. I worked at the maintenance shop until the CE running the telephone exchange was about to transfer out and I took over for him. I saw the pictures of your switchboard and was surprised as we had a 200 line automated exchange with Stroeger [sp?] switches. We also served boiler watch in the power plant with 3 steam boilers, served on maintenance for the entire facility including "Shotgun" or CDAA and its building. I believe a civilian came to our site to work on our key system in the personnel department. If I remember correctly the exchange was located in the basement of the admin building near the TTY repair facility. Drop me a note when you get a chance.
David Rovaldi, Maryland
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Great to hear from you David. I guess you were leaving Adak around the time I was getting out of bootcamp. I don't understand how you could have had an automated switchboard before I got to the island, unless it died and had be be replaced by something more primitive. Any thoughts?
I believe you and I were at two different facilities. I was at Commsta in their maintenance department and you were at Navsta downtown. It was intstalled there before I got there. I have no idea why they had a 200 line automated exchange at Commsta. I don't remember if we could call downtown directly but I believe we could.
That explains it. I never thought Commsta had their own switchboard. Someone there must have had more pull to get a more advanced unit. We had one of the "One ringee dingee" units.
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