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Very unusual military activity is taking place around the Jim Creek Naval Radio Station in Washington state; it's as if the US military is looking for a potential attacker off the coast. This Radio facility is the way the US Military communicates with ALL our submarines, even submerged, worldwide.
The Flightaware24 web site shows the intense military activity:
TONS of Helos are patrolling, P-3 Orions are working in tandem, there's a TON of "NA" jets running routes, as well as P-8 Poseidon sub-hunter aircraft.
Apache Longbow sniffer ran routes around the Sound covering Jim Creek, Whidbey Naval, Everett Naval, Indian Island (ammo city), Bangor (tridents), and Bremerton Naval.
They've also been running routes up and down the Chehalis River to the Northport bay between Westport and Ocean Shores.
They are DEFINITELY looking for and suspect something.
The Puget Sound region has 6 primary targets, not to mention secondary targets galore, Joint base Lewis/McChord, Boeing, et. etc.
When Naval Radio Station Jim Creek was dedicated in 1953, it was recognized as the most powerful radio station in the world. Its advanced technology and broadcast strength were displayed in magazine publications such as Popular Science and Popular Mechanics. Today it is still among only a handful of radio stations capable of providing more than one million watts of power, allowing the U.S. Navy to communicate with ships, submarines and aircraft anywhere around the world.
Jim Creek valley was chosen as a strategic location by the Chief of Naval Operations, a site from which to transmit messages instantaneously to all naval operating units located throughout the world. The Jim Creek Navy installation, secluded in the Cascade Mountains of Washington, is located 55 miles northeast of Seattle. Nearly 5,000 acres encompass the radio station, along with 275 acres of old growth forest and recreational camp grounds open to Department of Defense military and civilian personnel, eligible dependents, and sponsored guests.
Access to the radio station is mostly restricted to 21 specially trained federal civilian personnel who keep it operating 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
The facility is managed under the command of Naval Station Everett, while daily functions are controlled by the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station (NCTAMS) Pacific Command. A transmitter division conducts interior radio operations and a separate antenna division maintains nearly 100 miles of cable. Chief Warrant Officer Mark Gordon leads the department and oversees both units.
"Training is the backbone of maintaining this critical communication site. It ranges from tower rescue, electrical safety, and wildlife and natural resource preservation just to mention a few," he said.
Technicians who have prerequisite radio backgrounds receive additional training on the Jim Creek radio and antenna array. Antenna maintenance personnel often work at very high elevations on the towers and cables, depending on weather conditions.
"Our radio maintenance people have to know the older technology down to the component level," said Gordon. "That's why we offer in-house, on-the-job training on site."
Besides radio and tower maintenance, onsite training qualifications include safe climbing techniques and tree line maintenance near the transmitter site which must be kept clear of any potential interference with radio transmissions.
The radio's extensive antenna network spans 980 acres of the Jim Creek valley between Wheeler Mountain and Blue Mountain of the Cascade Mountain Range. The network is supported by 200-foot towers positioned approximately 3,000 feet high on opposite mountain crests. Six towers on each crest are connected by 10 antenna cables that zigzag across the valley. More than 360 miles of copper cable conductors make up the antenna system ground grid, covering 545 cleared acres.