NMD
USCG Primary Radio Station - Cleveland, OH
View of NMD site in the 1950s - USCG 9th District Photo
Most of
the information and the images on this page were furnished by Bob
Ballantine, W8SU
This station is known to have been
operational as early
as 1935, and had various titles over time. It ended
up with
CG Cleveland Radio, prior CG Chesterland Radio and even C.G. Gates
Mills.
The photo above shows the extended
directional antenna field at NMD. It had different
directional needs. It appeared that NMP Chicago had more funds
allocated than this station, thus its metal towers rather than the pine
poles in this photo. There is another transmitter hut to the
left at foot of the page left. You are looking westerly
towards Cleveland. Pitcher Hall of Famer, Bobby Feller lived
off in the distance at Gates Mills in a large mansion - not the home in
the background. NMD had essentially the same compliment as
NMP with a Warrant Officer In Charge. The location was on the
east edge of Cleveland on the dead-end unmarked road leading
west from about 414 County Line Road, Gates Mills, OH 44040. NMD was
decommissioned in 1970, and today you would never know that there ever was a Coast Guard
station located there. Aerial views of
the place as it looked recently show nothing remaining but the
black top road. There is a Horticultural
school operated by one of the vocational schools just off the
County Line Road entrance on the south side of the unmarked road.
 NMD Primary Radio circa 1965 - Bob Balantine Photo
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The QSL card is courtesy of B.L.
Paterson. In the photo above left the barracks are on the
right and the operations building is at the end of the lane.
The little staff ham shack was located in the garage on the left.
Here's another NMD QSL card
courtesy of Jeff Yates.
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