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The North Atlantic Radio System

This web site is dedicated to the men (and a few women) who built and operated the North Atlantic Radio System.

Whenever a project of any nature spans a period of more than 30 years, employing hundreds of people on a mission with the potential to affect millions, it develops a life of its own.

A chain of five tropospheric scatter communications sites, stretching from Iceland to England, the NARS system was designed as part of an extension to the DEW Line and was built for the US Air Force by Western Electric (AT&T) in the early 1960s. Operated and maintained for most of its 31 years by ITT Federal Electric Corporation (now ITT Federal Services Corp.) or its subsidiaries, the "NARS System," as it was commonly known, became, in a small way, a subculture.

NARS Facts

About the North Atlantic Radio System
Tropospheric Scatter Explained
About the NARS Sites
   Dye-5, Iceland
   Hofn, Iceland
   Nato Comm, Faroes
   Mormond Hill, Scotland
   Fylingdales, England
Site Rosters

NARS People & Pictures New!

Dave Word

NARS Stories

The Night of the Banshee - a true story.
Rotten Robert meets St. Peter - as told to Dave Word

Links to Other Sites

Link to: The Early Warning Connection
Link to: The DEW Line: Sites in Canada, Alaska and Greenland
Link to: The North Warning System (Canadian Portion)
Link to: BMEWS - 510 Full Days
Link to: Ace-High Tropospheric Scatter Communications System New!
Link to: The White Alice Communications System New!
Link to: Ft. Yukon White Alice Communications System New!

This badge should jog some memories but, for anybody who doesn't recognize it, REL made the fine NARS Tropo equipment.

Ruben Grant 19??-2005

Ruben Grant, well-liked Utility/Logistics man at Site 46 (Fylingdales), has passed away on Ascension Island, following a heart attack. No further details are available.

A native of Sledge, Miss., he was retired from the Air Force, and came to Fylingdales in 1979 after a brief period of time with ITT in Greenland.

After Site 46 closed, in 1990, Ruben remained in the Whitby area and was soon rehired for the construction and O&M phases of the replacement "Comma 46" facilities. He moved to Ascension in 1995, to work on a British contract.

Thanks to Jerry Brandon for this information.

We now have a NARS group on Yahoo!
If you ever had anything to do with NARS, please join.

Click to join nars_guys

Sig er ikke berigtige! Click to enlarge! At NATO COMM, we were privileged to have trained Royal Danish Air Force tropo technicians working with us. Here, Sgt. Jens Kjeldsen can't believe the reading he's seeing on the Performance Monitor Bay.
(Photo:Jerry Brandon)

NARS People & Pictures

I'm still hoping some of y'all will send your own stuff for the NARS People & Pictures section. Check out my page here to see what I'm talking about. The idea is to send me what you've got and I'll put it on a web page. Anywhere from two to six or eight of your favorite pictures, along with brief remarks about each one. JPEG format (.jpg) is best, but I can handle most formats.

You can also include a chronology of your time on NARS, like I did, a short narrative of your NARS experience, or just about anything else you want. There are no real rules, and no reason that your page has to look exactly like mine, so use your imagination and send me what you've got.

The pictures don't all have to be of you, just some NARS pics that you like, but do try to send at least one picture with yourself identified.

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