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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;longnine009, post: 2404523, member: 1886&quot;]Here&#039;s a token I recently got off ebay. Phu Lam was on the outskirts of Saigon and home to USASTRATCOM or U.S Army Strategic Communications Command. In the early days, satellite communications was still in a trial/experimental stage. Alot of message traffic was sent by underwater cable and Tropo-Scatter. Tropo-scatter was bouncing microwave signals off the troposphere down to a receiving station. By 1967 USASTRATCOM was directing&nbsp; a record 1,250,000 messages a month.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not too bad from what began as&nbsp; a one man show monitoring HF traffic in Phu Lam in 1951.</p><p><br /></p><p>Phu Lam (Saigon) Mess, 5c, brass, C/A, 21.5mm, 4.4 grams VN3720a, same both sides.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry about the crappy image. I should have taken the pic before putting it in the flip...duh.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]496037[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRKHnTtlVAn4ZLLB2jPNsp0wJVsYlFUG8JspX6-DtNqC7FStu5CGw" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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