[R-390] The picture that Lester sent

Flowertime01 at wmconnect.com Flowertime01 at wmconnect.com
Sun May 16 17:25:56 EDT 2010




Fellows,

I looked at the Guam photo's and now I want to waffel. I am not so sure.
Roger.

> 
> This would be inside the elephant cage on Okinawa. I recognize the 
> concrete 
> buildings and the antenna. Roger
> 
> Those of you who have seen Wullenweber antennas, what is the black
> band that joins the antennas? Thirty six antenna cables?
> 
> Bill Hawkins
> 
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> Bill the towers are just towers. The black band is just cable holding up 
> the antenna. Not seen in the photo is a screen of wire. You cannot even 
> stick 
> your hand through the wire "mesh" if you walked up to it. Ok maybe you can 
> get your hand through it but you cannot crawl through the mesh. There is a 
> reason these are called elephant cages. They are in fact very big cages. 
> Some 
> of the "skirt" does not reach the ground to make an entrance at one point. 
> The black band is not at the towers. The black band ring is larger than 
> the 
> tower ring. Each tower has a cantilever arm sticking out that hold up the 
> black band ring. There is some "skirt" above the band ring that is free 
> standing wire. 
> 
> Roger
> 
> 
> Looks like these are your options:
> 
> a.. Augsburg, Germany 
> a.. RAF Chicksands, UK 
> a.. Clark AFB, Phillipines 
> a.. Elmendorf AFB, AK 
> a.. Karamursel, Turkey 
> a.. Misawa AB, Japan 
> a.. Ramasun, Thailand 
> a.. San Vito dei Normanni AS, Italy
> 
> a. Imperial City San Diego County on the silver strand.
> a. Okinawa Japan
> 
> The one on Okinawa was about five miles north of and at right angles to 
> the 
> main runway on Kadena Field. It sat on the high ridge of the island. I do 
> not remember it being visible from the roof top restaurant in Kadena City 
> (Okinawa City today). It may have been but at five miles it may have just 
> looked like a fence. The antenna field at Torri Station did not look 
> impressive 
> from the roof top. You could not even see the SR 71's all that well and 
> they 
> were only a couple miles away on the air field.
> 
> The runway is East / West. The west end is on the China Sea. The terminal 
> is on the south side of the runway. The Antenna would have been five miles 
> across the run way to the North. The antenna was not visible from any 
> where on 
> the ground until you got up on the ridge and almost on top of the site. It 
> was all mask by vegetation.
> 
> Some of you pilots may have seen the antenna landing or taking off from 
> Okinawa. Mostly flights come over the island and over the antenna then did 
> a 
> loop over the China sea and landed on the runway. This keep planes from 
> breaking glass in Kadena City at the East end of the runway.
> 
> Roger
> 
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