[R-390] R390A / R390 help

[blw]

> K-14? That sure brings back some memories of doing flight training there in
> 1990.
> 
> Barry
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> Barry,
> 
> Was the ASA station and antenna field still there then?
> 
> Was the big satellite tracking dishes still there?
> 
> Roger KC6TRU.

Roger,

That I couldn't tell you at the moment, but I'll dig through some flight
pubs that I brought back to see if there are any towers indicated near the
airfield. I also have my maps and they may be on there too. I don't know.
The Korean maps were junk compared to what we had in Europe. They were
definately low grade, blue light specials. I know the antenna farms would be
on tactical maps of Europe, but I always suspected the cartographers omitted
entire mountains and villages from the Korean Walmart specials they issued
us.

I think the airfield at K-14 was called Desiderio Base, which is a tongue
twister. I was stationed in Chunchon up in the n.e. corner of S. Korea. We
were in the field for 3 weeks south of K-14 and I would fly out of the field
site to do touchdown autorotations, hydraulics off landings, stuck tailrotor
pedal landings etc to the runway. K-14 was the closest airfield with
crash-rescue on standby for the emergency maneuver training.

We would also sneak flights to K-14 for showers, hot food, and the Stars &
Stripes. We would hurry from the airfield to the PX/Snackbar/Gym and back
before being noticed as not flying somewhere else. I never had a chance to
look around.

I'll look thru my material and see what I can deduce from it. The word in
1991 was that the HQ in Seoul was moving to K-14.  There was a lot going on
in Korea that was kept hush-hush but you got wind of it from time to
time...like little radio sites on mountain tops that needed food flown up to
them.



Barry