[R-390] Unusual Facility in UK

[charles bolland]

I haven't seen the photo you are all talking about, but from your
description, it seems like you are talking about a Wullenweber antenna
array?

Chuck
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Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 12:49
Subject: Re: [R-390] Unusual Facility in UK


> 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
> >
> > http://www.coasttocoastam.com/
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