Mark Schoonover wrote:
 > I don't know  how the military DFed microwave signals. I worked down in
Imperial Beach in the lat eighties, but we did high frequency DF. That's
what the big antenna is down by the beach. From what I know, it's not in use
anymore. That system worked by looking at the phase of the signal as it

The cylindrical array isn't in use anymore, for the most part ...

crossed all the antennas, and could provide a bearing. Many of these sites
used to be located all over the world, and we could triangulate to get an
approximate location.

... the facility, however, is still used to do offshore super-low-frequency communications with the pacific fleet. There's an absolutely massive underwater antenna that juts out past the facility.

I don't know much more about it than that!

-kelsey


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