White Alice Communications System

Station Nome with horn antenna and parabolic antenna , on the far right a van as a size comparison

The White Alice Communications System ( WACS ) was a tropospheric scatter - and radio - communication system of the United States Air Force in Alaska .

The system was commissioned in 1958 and was replaced by satellite communications in the late 1970s . The last WACS radio station ceased operations in the mid-1980s.

See also

• ACE high

Web links

Commons : White Alice  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Historic site of veterans (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ A history of the White Alice Communications System. Retrieved February 20, 2016 .