delays.
To improve circuit efficiency, it was decided to establish
an electronic relay system of operation at Hawaii during those crit=ical periods when the direct circuit operation was not satisfactory.
An electronic relay was necessary because of the on-line SIGTOTSAMSON crypto system emplcyed.
TG 7.5 concurred in the proposal
and USARPAC agreed to provide the electronic patch facilities and
equipment.
OCSigO-FAPUSJCEC (Frequency Allocation Panel, U. S. Joint
Communications - Electronics Committee) was requested to provide a
full complement of high frequencies for the operation of the circuit.
Since it was not intended that the direct Eniwetok-Los Alamos circuit
and the patch system would be operating at the same time, it was
recommended that the same frequencies assigned to the direct circuit
be used for the electronic patch system,
After installaticn of the
patch system, a continuous seven-day test showed that this system
provided about twenty-two hours daily usable circuit time as compared
to only six hours daily on the direct circuit.
Az a resuit of this
performance the electronic relay system was employed continuousiy
for the remainder of Operation CASTLE.
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Initially all the Bikini Atcll facilities providing inter-atol
voise and teletype commmications ware located at Eninman sinze the
bunker on Enyu which would eventually house this equipment had sct
been completed at that tine.
Oa 16 January 2954, ali TG 7.2 facii~
ities were moved to the bunker on Enya except for a. small commurication center retained on Enirman,
Numerous operating diffisraities
were experienced following the move to Enju for the space in the