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LORAN STATION CAPE CHRISTIAN
70 32 N 68 18 W

Pictures:

Fact Sheet:

Site Survey:

1953

Construction Date

 

Constructed by:

 

Established:

1954

Disestablished:

JUL 1975

Operated by:

USCG

Chain:

NORTH ATLANTIC

Station Letter designation:

 

Station code name:

DOPE II 

Station Unit Number:

1961 - APO 228

Station nickname:

 

On-air testing date:

1954

Operational date:

1954

Operations Ceased:

302400Z JUN 1975

Station Operation:

Double SLAVE/SECONDARY

Station pair:

1L7, 1L0, 2S6 – CAPE ATHOLL

1L1, 2S7 - NIPISAT

Loran Rate:

 1L0,1L1,1L7,2S6,2S7

On-Air:

1L1, 1954 – NIPISAT
1L7, 1954 – CAPE ATHOLL
1L0, NOV 1956 – CAPE ATHOLL
2S6, CAPE ATHOLL
2S7, NIPISAT

Off-Air

1L7, NOV 1956 – CAPE ATHOLL
2S6, 302400Z JUN 1975 – CAPE ATHOLL
2S7, 302400Z JUN 1975 - NIPISAT

Monitor Rate:

 

Equipment:

AN/FPN30, AN/FPA-2, T-325B, T-138

Antenna Type: "T" wire cage

Personnel Allowance:

1 Officer & 32 Enlisted 1953 agreement

Miscellaneous:

4/16/53 CG Requests permission to build
JCS cancelled closure in 1972

Commanding Officers / Officers in Charge

CO: LTJG Edwin H Daniels Aug 1956 - Aug 1957
CO: LTJG Dennis Green AUG 1957 - 1958
CO: LTJG Ken Palfrey 1958 - 1959
CO: LTJG Ian Cruikshank 1962 – JUN 1963

CO: LTJG Charles Keller JUN 1963 - JUN 1964
CO: LTJG Jim Kunkle 1967-68
CO: LTJG Victor MAY 1969 – MAY 1970
CO: LTJG R. McGuire MAY 1970 – 1971
CO: LTJG Charles A Huber 1971 – JUN 1972
CO: LTJG Tom Howard JUN 1972 - 1973

Documents:

Exchange of Notes Between Canada and the United States regarding construction and Operation of a Loran Station
                      by the USCG at Cape Christian, Baffin Island

PicturesClick on picture for larger image

Possible location of Loran Station Cape Christian

Picture from google earth.

Loran Station Cape Christian

The below photos were contributed by Gene Oleson (ET1) c./1964

1964 Crew
1964 Crew

Comb Antenna
Comb Receiving Antenna (MX-1287/GRN)

Morning Sun
Morning Sun

Looking South
Looking South at the station

Some more from Gene


Station under construction c./1953


Station c./2000
the west center wing (berthing area) destroyed and the east center wing (admin office/co/cpo/storage) also gone.  


Station truck as is in 2000
A tourist visited the station and sent Gene the above photo and stated that the Transmitter and amplifier was covered by snow.


Google Earth 2009

Some additional notes from Gene:

Cape Christian was novel in that we also had  the AN/GRN-9B TACAN Beacon.  The tacan was DME only (distance measurement) as the azimuth data was corrupted by the fact that we were parallel to Fox Basin where magnetic north is located.  One ET was detailed to the Navy school for the GRN-9.  All the USAF traffic to Thule crossed over Cape Christian. 

In addition Cape Christian had additional UHF/VHF capability as the Loran watchstander had to monitor at least four frequencies in addition to the HF SSB.  One of the B-52's circling the polar regions carrying the "big one" might call on UHF.  You'd get a single call, "Cape Christian this is (coded call).  He would send a group of ten letters and "Relay Thule Center, out."  No fills, repeats or idle words.  It didn't happen every watch, but sure would wake you up on the mid-watch. The Loran watchstander in turn had to wake up the RM as the only link to Thule was an unreliable CW circuit.  The hf SSB was supposed to be a link to the Danish at Nipisat and to Cape Athol, but it was useless as I don't recall a single qso with them. I learned CW at Cape Christian!

 

Thanks Gene!

RCMP Mort Doyle's Power Point of pictures from Cape Christian

 

 

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