I wonder how many American Loranimals have been to LORSTA Jan Mayen?  Or for that matter, other than Norwegian Loranimals, how many Europeans? 

For information, I know there are a few of each.  However, I will tell you about one--me.  I have spent about a month on Jan Mayen, two weeks in 1975 and another two weeks in 1977. 

In 1975, I was traveled there by USCG C-130 from EECEN as the senior project officer in charge of upgrading the station to the LRE (current timers, etc.) and moving the timer room from the small building in the foreground of your posted  picture to main station building and barracks.  This required installing all new cables, a mile long, as well as all new equipment.  My 3-person team and I then went on to LORSTA Bo via Norwegian C-130, commercial commuter plane, ferry boat, and car, to do the same there (less moving the timer room). 

In 1977, then CDR Don Feldman (my boss) and I went from ACTEUR to LORSTAs Bo and Jan Mayen, respectively, to install the first operational Loran-C CG-2-pulse comms (TPC); during that trip, I was known as "the man without suitcase" on Jan Mayen, as my toolbox came on the same SAS flight with me from Heathrow, but apparently my suitcase was lost.  It arrived on the first SAS flight into Bodo after the C-130 left for Jan Mayen.  It also made to Jan Mayen on the next C-130 flight--the one that came to pick me up two weeks later.  Nevertheless, the TPC install was successful; I managed to buy some emergency clothes at the Jan Mayen exchange store (all, aka both, sets of spare underwear), washed clothes nearly everyday, and surprised my wife by returning home with a suitcase full of clean clothes (the ONLY time in many TDYs and business trips that ever happened).

Do you have a picture of the Jan Mayen event of the "fall" (literally) of 1980, when the tower collapsed?  I would bet that the Americans with more time on Jan Mayen than me are my Academy classmates Loranimal Dick Burke (who followed me in ACTEUR) and Mark Present (civil engineer from Stateside), who oversaw the rebuilding of the tower and re-energizing of the signals during the late fall and winter of that year. 

Jim