[Spooks] V2, M8, RHC on Google Earth

[j.armani at comcast.net]

If anyone find's it, put a place mark on it, I have looked and Can't find it.   Also e-mail the immage to everybody.   ----Paul Armani 

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From: "Utility World (Hugh Stegman)" <utilityworld at ominous-valve.com> 

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> Google Earth recently added a high-resolution aerial picture of the Havana 
> area, and it's become quite the pastime to poke around looking for stuff. 
> One good area is south and west of Havana near a little town named Bauta, 
> which has a lot of military bases (and, according to one poster, a no-tell 
> motel). Various people have posted place marks to Google's BBS identifying 
> what they think they see. 
> 
> Well, if you go to 22 degrees 57 minutes 2 seconds north and 82 degrees 32 
> minutes 41 seconds west, and zoom in to about the 3685 foot level, you will 
> find a pretty obvious transmitter building in the middle of a very large 
> antenna farm. Nobody's marked it, and I didn't either because Google Earth 
> tries to hijack your browser if you start an account, and I wouldn't let it. 
> 
> Unfortunately, aerial photography flattens things out and towers never show 
> up well, but at least here they are casting shadows. Also you see the 
> generator off to the left, a storage area, and a lot of little dirt roads 
> out to clearings that might or might not still have antennas in them. To 
> the west there's a microwave tower (identifiable by its shadow on the 
> ground) and an access road with a guard gate. 
> 
> This is quite the facility. I wonder if I've found Radio Havana Cuba. 
> 
> Another guy has marked something he suspects is V2/M8. I don't know if he's 
> right or not. There are definitely rather odd patterns on the field that 
> might or might not be holding up wire beams or antenna arrays. They're kind 
> of teardrop shaped, and note the high towers in the middle. I thought I 
> also saw a microwave tower, but I think it's actually an AC transmission 
> line. 
> 
> Finally someone else has marked what he thinks is the remains of the closed 
> Lourdes sigint base, but I agree with another poster that he's too far to 
> the north. You go south and a bit west, and there is something that sure 
> looks like a group of low buildings being eaten by the hurricanes and 
> tropical weather, and a baseball field that's been turned back to 
> agricultural use. The infield still shows up. It's definitely an abandoned 
> military/government facility of some sort. 
> 
> (You do not have a military base in Cuba without a ball field. You just 
> don't.) 
> 
> -hugh 
> 
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