Hi Lee,
It doesn't have to end this way... The U.S. Navy AN/FPS-12 Over the Horizon Radar (one of a series of 1960s and 1970s CHECKROTE HF radars ) in White House, Virginia was dismantled in 1987 to make way for the Navy's new AN/TPS-71 OTH radar. A commercial tower company owned by a PVRC member dismantled hundreds of Folded Triangular Monopole (FTM) antennas and thousands of feet of reflecting screens. Fortunately for me and dozens of other hams their contract included removal of all antenna related components and full salvage rights. Just a tiny fraction of the components from the FTM arrays and reflecting screens and some additional antennas on the site found their way into dozens of ham stations, For example, five hundred feet of AB-105 tower, six large 14-30 MHz log periodic arrays, miles and miles of RG-17, RG-8 and 1/2 inch hardline coax, dozens of 7 inch diameter 40 foot monopoles and hundreds of vacuum relays found their way to W3LPL. At least one of K3LR's towers and several of N4AF's towers came from the dismantled AN/FPS-112 facility. 73 Frank W3LPL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee STRAHAN" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, April 8, 2016 5:51:05 PM Subject: Topband: VOA antenna farm These two sites are also gone now. Hauled away for scrap. Acres of stainless mesh wire ground plane as well. http://www.k7tjr.com/fps118_oth_radar.htm Lee K7TJR _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
