[Scan-DC] Anyone recognize this site in the San Fran area?

[Andrew Clegg]

Thanks all. Randtron came up in a couple of responses. I looked at some of those experimentals, and there are comments about being under contract. My guess is they're under contract to FAA and other agencies. Some of those experimentals are in aeronautical bands, some are in DoD bands, some are in commercial bands. Seems like it would be a cool place to work.



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From: Eric C. Carlson <ecarlson at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Anyone recognize this site in the San Fran area?

I'm not sure why the FAA would have 3 radomes next to each other like that. My Googling suggests it is a facility operated by L3Harris Technologies' Randtron Antenna Systems unit which is based in Menlo Park. So I'd naively say it's an R&D facility for them, which also adds up with all of the experimental licenses there. It carries an address of 10700 Cahill Ridge Road. San Mateo County zoning documents describe it as a "radar test range facility."

-Eric

On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 11:27 AM Andrew Clegg <andrew_w_clegg at hotmail.com<mailto:andrew_w_clegg at hotmail.com>> wrote:
Does anyone know what this site is? https://goo.gl/maps/wZ9iK41gkN5aygm76

My guess is an FAA facility. There are some experimental licenses to Harris there including some aviation radar frequencies, but no significant permanent FCC licenses, which makes me think it's a federal facility  (http://w4je.com/cgi-bin/geofreq.py?lat_deg=37.515417&lat_min=&lat_sec=&lat_dir=N&lon_deg=122.380028&lon_min=&lon_sec=&lon_dir=W&dmax=1&dmin=0&fmin=0&fmax=300000&lic=&call=&cdbs=1&coals=1&els=1&ibfs=1&uls=1&sort1=dist&sort2=&sort3=&sort4=&kmllab1=lic&kmllab2=&kmllab3=&kmltxt1=call&kmltxt2=freq&kmltxt3=&date=2020-04-27&submit=Submit)

Just wondering if anyone has more certain insight. A friend who was hiking past it this weekend was asking me.

73,
W4JE

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