[R-390] The picture that Lester sent

[Lester Veenstra]

It is GUAM



Lester B Veenstra  MØYCM K1YCM
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-----Original Message-----
From: r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
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Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 10:26 PM
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Subject: Re: [R-390] The picture that Lester sent




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
> 
> --------
> 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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