[MilCom] Military antenna site

[Tom M.]

Sounds like a local ham DXer I know.

He has a second modest house in the country (wife won't allow big iron at
home).  He has six towers on the property, visible from miles away.  He allows
other hams access to his facility for contesting.

73 Tom
--- Glenn Little WB4UIV <glennmaillist at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> A friend of mine called me to look at some pictures of an antenna farm he 
> had taken. He wanted to know what ham could afford this.
> 
> There are two towers. The first appears to be at least 200 feet tall and is 
> unlighted. It has six yagi antenna on it and the tower is rotatable. Four 
> yagis appear to be in the 6-8 MHz range and the other two appear to be in 
> the 10-15 MHz range. Each antenna is fed with a different feedline that 
> appears to be over an inch in diameter. All of the antennas are pointed in 
> the same direction. At the time that the picture was taken they appear to 
> be pointed to the Middle East. There is a guy point just below each antenna 
> that appears to be a bearing for tower rotation.
> 
> The second antenna is mounted on a crank up tower that appears to be 75 or 
> so feet tall.
> 
> This is located in South Carolina just off of State Road 30 near Bozard 
> Drive. The coordinates are 33-42-18N, 80-52-30W.
> 
> I suspect that this is a military installation. However it is on a farm. 
> The only visible buildings are a house and a barn. The antennas are near 
> the barn. He said that there is no obvious security other than outside 
> cameras on the barn.
> 
> This installation went in less than three weeks ago.
> 
> Any ideas  as to what the antenna farm is for?
> 
> I feel that this is military due to the cost to install such a tall 
> rotatable tower and the size of the antennas used. If I remember correctly 
> each antenna had six elements and they were braced to the tower with guy 
> lines from the tower to each end of the antenna.
> 
> 73
> Glenn
> WB4UIV
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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