Sinop Turkey DF Point Site TUSLOG Detachment 4
Located centrally on the North Coast of Turkey on the Beautiful Black Sea. Most of the material here for the Sinop DF Site
have been provided by Ron Knief, ASA Europe Sit Office Maintenance Team, derived frm a 30 day TDY trip and from Brian Alpert, a DF Operator who was assigned to the hill a few years later. (Det 4 was essentially a Field Station with a wide and varied mission; part of which was the DF point-site.)
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Taken after lunch at Sinop when grapes were served and Edwin Lamb was swatting them with a board outside the DF hut. Ron Knief Photo and Caption
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Ron Knief's TDY trip to Sinop
I was assigned to a DF team, which was tasked with keeping all the DF sites in Europe in tune. That included the R-390 receivers and all the ancillary equipment that went into a DF site.
In October of 1959 I was sent to Sinop Turkey to Det 4 for a 30 day TDY for a once a year tune up of the site there. I was stationed in Frankfurt with HQ USASAE at a depot in the park just below the I.G. Farben building. Sinop is located in the center of Turkey right on the Black Sea approximately 100-150 miles south of the Crimean Peninsula in Russia, now the Ukraine. Read more.........
Note: Ron's photos of the TDY are at the end of the recollection on the Read more page
Add your comments or memories:
When I was there (1967) we had a small building with window mounted A/C units. I remember this vividly as I was dropped off to work the site when it was raining and I jumped from the jeep with head down so the rain wouldn’t hit me in the face and I slammed into the A/C angle iron bracket, and it knocked me back into a mud puddle. The poor Sp4 that helped me up got in trouble for moving me. Wish I remembered his name so I could say I’m sorry.
My brother Rich was stationed on the hill 57-58 and they lived in James way Huts. He said it was pretty bad back then.
Email excerpt: Brian Alpert ( Sinop, Lecce & Ravenna Italy )
Tom
These are pix of the point site from scanned Minox negs. I scanned them originally as TIFFs and the size was close to 4X5. After I worked on them I made them JPEGs. If the quality is very bad I can try to scan them smaller. They were taken The first shot is Lee Skinner's back and the guy in the shadow is the same one I had in the pix in the antenna array with Farthing (the squid) I don't know who the guy with Lee Skinner(white sweater) is in the second pix. The guy coming out of the site door in the third pix was the NCOIC and his last name was Lohr. Sorry I don't remember his first name but I can try to run it past Lucky Rupp who left right before I arrived. The forth shot is of Lohr again. In the last sholt I think the guy who is outside the shack with the dogs is the same one who was in the antenna array. I ran him by Rupp who remembered him but couldn't
remember his name either. Hard working with old farts who didn't take notes isn't it?<g>
Anyway let me know if you want me to try again.
Regards
Brian
(Note: I have probably scrambled the order up but the captions provided by Brian are with the correct photos - I hope! TomH)