Noviken VLF transmitter

[Aldemarin]

Noviken VLF transmitter is a facility for transmitting messages to submarines on 16.4 kHz. It uses like the former OMEGA-station in Norway wires spun between rocks ( see http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/novi ... ransmitter ). Does someone know when it was built? Has someone more information?

Which other transmitters with wire spans exist or existed in Norway? Were some of the long powerline spans over Fjords in Norway designed so, that they could be used after some work is done for transmission activities?

[lilje]

I was built in th 1960's with NATO infrastructure funding. The operation was funded by NATO until the spring of 2006, when Norway took the full responsibility, so after that it is a national Norwegian facility.

[Natter]

Which other transmitters with wire spans exist or existed in Norway? Were some of the long powerline spans over Fjords in Norway designed so, that they could be used after some work is done for transmission activities?

Who are you, where are you from, and why this interest for Norwegian military communication infrastructure?

[Aldemarin]

I came from Germany. I find the facility of Noviken and the former Aldra Omega transmitter are very interested as they are respectively were realized in a very unique manner with a wire span across a valley instead of using towers. There is no similiar installation in Germany, although there was one in the 1920ies in Southern Bavaria, see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funkstation_am_Herzogstand .

[sundgot]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noviken_VLF_Transmitter

The longest of these spans is 2375 metres long.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Action_Message

The EAM system was featured extensively and used as one of the primary plot devices in the feature film Crimson Tide.

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