[Elecraft] OT Wullenweber Array

Bob Cunnings bob.cunnings at gmail.com
Fri Dec 1 11:40:47 EST 2006


While we're at it, I remember that an FRD-10 was in operation at NSGA
San Diego which we called the "Dinosaur Cage". That was eons ago,
don't know if it still exists.

Bob NW8L

On 12/1/06, Paul Picking <wd8ojl at neo.rr.com> wrote:
> Greetings all,
>    I believe there is still one at Misawa AFB in Japan as well. I was there in the  early 70's as a voice intercept op ---  Russian language
>     The one in the Phillipines has been deactivated for decades  I believe. Paul WD8OJL
>
>
>
> Fred posted
>
> "There used to be an elephant cage at Skaggs Is., northeast of the top of
> San Pablo Bay in the N. SF Bay area.  It's gone now.  There was also one
> at Clark AB in the Philippines in the mid-60's.  Don't know what
> happened to it, but if it lasted after the US left Vietnam, it likely
> succumbed to Mt. Pinatubo.  I don't think these things had a lot of
> gain, but they were broadband (most ELINT stuff is), and could feed
> multiple rx simultaneously.  Broadband and gain in the same sentence is
> an oxymoron ... witness log-periodic arrays.
>
> Fred K6DGW"
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