[Milsurplus] Rota CDAA antenna removal

[aGEnuine ham]

Ed:

Well, those RFD rooms underwent 2 complete revisions between 1971 and
date of disestablishment.  The center room was changed only slightly,
although the various racks were always getting different equipment
swapped in and out of them.  Did that rack go upstairs in the center
room, or downstairs in RFD (or gonio deck, as the CTs called them)?  I
spent most of my time working downstairs, and now have a difficult time
even visualizing the layout of the outstation or center room, as those
were dismantled in '98 or '99.  Last time I was at Rota, the center room
had been taken over by logistics, and contained shelves of supplies for
the ships.  Sad.  I was thinking of one of the other receiver systems
which was only a fraction of a rack, and disappeared about 1989 from the
various sites.  The FRR-87 designation is not familiar.  I corresponded
with one of the civilian tech reps about the disposition of equipment
from the sites as they were shut, and big brother took the easy way out,
simply crushing and destroying all of it, rather than trying to sort out
the sensitive from the mundane.  You never know, some of those secret
signals they listened to may still be bouncing around inside one of the
transistors or capacitors or something.

73,
George
W5VPQ

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