[R-390] Unusual Facility in UK

[odyslim at comcast.net]

 My father was an HF DFer for the army for many years.I remember
him telling me of such arrays. He would travel to remote sites all over 
the world and help organize the installation of them. They also used
specially modified R391's that could be tuned from remote transmitters
so the site could be unmanned.

 Scott W3CV

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> 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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