Talk:Fort Ward (Washington)

gun batteries
There appears to be ruins of at least two gun batteries outside the confines of the park to the south east. Does anyone know the ownership status of these? ( are they private? State land? City land?) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.19.100.164 (talk) 18:43, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

Fort Ward
I'm suspicious of the claim that Fort Ward is the only national historic site in Bainbridge, as there at least two others, see List of Registered Historic Places in Washington. Murderbike (talk) 01:09, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008
Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 19:00, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

800' foot tall Vertical antenna
"The Fort Ward command also oversaw the construction of the Navy's largest radio transmitter at Battle Point, with a tower 300 feet taller than the Space Needle. This was used to send messages to Navy Command at Pier 91 in Seattle". I believe the 800' tall antenna referred to in the article is for VLF communications with Submarines. VLF frequencies and very high power transmitters are needed to communicate with subs underwater. Normal HF frequencies will not work. These Vertical antennas were established at a number of Navy comm sites around the world and would explain why it was so large. You would need a very large antenna at VLF frequencies to make it resonant. Also you would not need an antenna that large or costly to establish communications across the bay with Seattle. It may have had an antenna on it that would give communication with Seattle but that would not have been its sole purpose. I believe this was the predecessor system prior to the Navy VLF radio station being built at Jim Creek Arlington WA which is still being used for that purpose today.