[R-390] Those R-390's in Turkey

[Bob Camp]

Hi

I suspect it’s now part of Google 

Bob

On Sep 15, 2014, at 5:48 PM, Bill Fairbanks <billfairbanks at mac.com> wrote:

> The base at Karamursel and the footprint of the Wullenweber can be seen on
> Google earth.  Who's running the base now?  I don't know.
> 
> Bill
> Ex  "Radio Research" Op at Tuslog Detachment 4-4 Karamursel and Detachment
> 27 Out In The Middle of Nowhere Near Ankara Turkey
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-390 [mailto:r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bob Camp
> Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2014 3:29 PM
> To: Clemens Ostergaard
> Cc: r-390 at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [R-390] Those R-390's in Turkey
> 
> Hi
> 
> .. and I wonder what could possibly be going on today that might involve
> cleaning out some of those old locations and firing them back up with more
> modern gear ..
> 
> Bob
> 
> On Sep 14, 2014, at 3:22 PM, Clemens Ostergaard <clemenso at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> It is no wonder there are many exemplars of the rx in Turkey. The 
>> country was front-line during the Cold War, adjacent to the Soviet 
>> Union's 'underbelly'.
>> 
>> Turkey was the first country in Asia that CIA had Sigint-agreements 
>> with (secret at the time I think). There was for example a base at 
>> Sinop, by the Black Sea, and later a Wullenweber antenna array at 
>> Karamursel AB, near Izmir, run by the USAF, from1966 and said to be
> dismantled in 1977.
>> There would be banks and banks of R-390A's installed at these and 
>> other stations in the 50'es and 60'es. Turkish military would inherit 
>> them, and later, much later,  pass them on to amateurs, DX'ers etc, or 
>> direct to the junk yard. Since NSA and others were involved in their 
>> use, it is natural that the BFO micro-dial is found on some of them.
>> 
>> Clemens S. Ostergaard
>> Copenhagen, DENMARK
>> ______________________________________________________________
>> R-390 mailing list
>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/r-390
>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
>> Post: mailto:R-390 at mailman.qth.net
>> 
>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email 
>> list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
> 
> ______________________________________________________________
> R-390 mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/r-390
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:R-390 at mailman.qth.net
> 
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>