[GreenKeys] 'Russian woodpecker' of old...

[Majdi S. Abbas]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 06:50:30PM -0400, Al Klase wrote:
> The woodpecker was a Russian over-the-horizon radar system operating in 
> the HF bands.  Naturally they used the bands that were open.  It was so 
> bad that radios like the Kenwood TS-930 had separate woodpecker-tuned 
> noise blankers.  You'll find more that you want to know by googling 
> "russian woodpecker."

Ken,

	What Al said, but I can give you a little bit more.  How would
you like to see some pictures?

http://www.artificialowl.net/2008/12/abandoned-giant-duga-3-system-antenna.html

http://pix.fine.kiev.ua/egor/gallery/0000b02w

http://pripyat.com/ru/internet_photo/chernobyl_2/

http://lplaces.com/en/reports/3-report/12-chornobyl-2

	Each half of one of the cage dipoles is considerably bigger than
a man.  For scale -- the large portion of the array is a kilometer long
and 750m high.

	73,

	Majdi, N0RMZ