[R-390] Unusual Facility in UK

[ToddRoberts2001 at aol.com]

I was wondering if any other members of the r-390 group saw the picture in 
the Listeners Emails column in the Art Bell Coast To Coast AM website recently? 
A listener sent in a satellite picture of an AN/FLR-9 "Elephant Cage" HF DF 
antenna array and was wondering if any readers might know what it was. I was one 
of about 60 replies he got that correctly identified it as one of the large 
HF DF antenna arrays. It is a nice overhead picture showing the array at RAF 
Chicksands looking kind of like a large round clock face from above. It turns 
out the man who sent in the picture already knew what it was,  he was just 
testing Art Bell's fans to see what kind of crazy responses he might get! He 
thought he would get emails from people telling him it was a landing site for UFO's! 
 He said he was surprised and very impressed there were so many knowledgeable 
people out there who knew what it was. I think there are several members of 
this group who have actually operated an Elephant Cage array? I would love to 
hook up an R-390A to one of those arrays and sit down for a couple of hours of  
nice AM BC band DXing! You can still see the picture for the next  day or two 
on Art Bells website. Look in the column under Listeners Emails. 73 Todd 
WD4NGG

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