JOHNSTON ATOLL
F&SNO.
02030
USER
TG 8.6
SUPPORT
TITLE
Transmitter Facility
STRUCTURE. FACILITY NO.
1100 and 1101
SCIENTIFIC STATION NO.
None
BOD
FOD
FUNDING
($000)
AGENCY
ITF -8
ENGR
PROC
CONST
TOTAL
FURN
PRE-GO>
MILCON
CRO 7-64
Prior Cost
16.0
169.7
185.7
11.9
11.9
181.6
197.6
0.1
CRO4-65
AEC
PRE-GO
Prior Cost
| TOTAL
16.0
0.1
COMPLETED
DESCRIPTION The Transmitter Facility (completed in 1965) on Hikina Island
consists of a Transmitter Building (Building 1100) which is located in the trans mitter antenna field. The building is 24 x 100-ft. and is a rigid frame steel
structure with corrugated asbestos cement roofing and siding. Itis air conditioned and partitioned to provide an electronic equipment room, a storage
area for small electronics parts and equipment, a latrine and emergency living
quarters for four men. A 9x 2l-ft. lean-to on the east side of the building is
provided to house multicouplers.
Freshwater is supplied from a 1700-gallon storage tank connected to a hydropneumatic system. Sewage is collected into a septic tank. The effluent from
the septic tank drains by gravity into the ocean,
Power requirements are 40 kw for the building utilities and 170 kw for the
technical equipment, all provided by a feeder from the Hikina Island substation.
Two-hundred percent backup power is provided in the island distribution system
With multiple feeders, double transformation, and a 300 kw standby generator.
An 18 x 30-ft. building (Building 1101) shelters the standby generator.
A 2700-
gallon horizontal tank adjacent to the generator building supplies diesel fuel to
the generator.
DRAWINGS:
117-1100-Al thru A4
117-1100-C1 and C2
117-1100-S1
117-1100-M1 thru M3
2-28
Cid
117-1100-E1 thru E3
JS 117-1100-M101 and M102
JS 117-1100-E100
VOLI
April 1969