[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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