{"id":11167,"date":"2014-10-24T07:07:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T11:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=11167"},"modified":"2014-10-24T07:07:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T11:07:35","slug":"mike-recalls-visiting-the-original-wullenweber-test-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/mike-recalls-visiting-the-original-wullenweber-test-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike recalls visiting the original Wullenweber test site"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Illinois\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In response to our post Uncovering Wullenweber\u2019s \u201cElephant Cages,\u201d<\/a> Mike comments:<\/em><\/p>\n

Sometime back around 2005-2009, I was doing maintenance on a NOAA climate station near Bondville, IL, and noticed several tall utility poles in the distance. As I figured they looked suspiciously like an antenna array, I asked the site caretaker (it was University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana farm) what they were. He happily took me to see what was left of the original Wullenweber test site, built under contract for the US government for testing by Dr. Hayden. All that remained then was several utility poles, and some transmission line sticking out of the ground.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"SanDiego\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve also seen the Navy\u2019s array at Imperial Beach, CA (near San Diego), down the highway from the SEAL base, and it\u2019s very impressive. It\u2019s clearly visible from the highway, and though I\u2019ve read it was supposed to come down years ago, its still standing. Makes me wonder if it\u2019s still in use.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"AK\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Another interesting site I\u2019ve seen is outside of Barrow, Alaska. Near remnants of the DEW Line is a joint USAF\/FAA radar station, with a single white domed antenna. I don\u2019t remember exactly, but pretty close to it is what looks to me like a \u201cmini\u201d Elephant Cage. From what I recall, it was a single ring of fairly short towers, surrounding a small central building. When I asked about the facility, I was only told it belonged to an \u201cunnamed agency.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first 2 are clearly visible from the following link<\/a>, while the Barrow site doesn\u2019t stand out enough to be obvious in the Google images.<\/p>\n

Click on the \u201cmarkers\u201d button in the lower right\u00a0to jump to all the sites:\u00a0http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/k5jhxuv<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many thanks, Mike!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to our post Uncovering Wullenweber\u2019s \u201cElephant Cages,\u201d Mike comments: Sometime back around 2005-2009, I was doing maintenance on a NOAA climate station near Bondville, IL, and noticed several tall utility poles in the distance. As I figured they looked suspiciously like an antenna array, I asked the site caretaker (it was University of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,288,43],"tags":[3338,752,3067,3335,3336,3337],"class_list":["post-11167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-circular-receiving-antennas","tag-cold-war","tag-cold-war-radio","tag-elephant-cages","tag-wullenweber","tag-wullenweber-antennas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2U7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11143,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/uncovering-the-wullenweber-elephant-cages\/","url_meta":{"origin":11167,"position":0},"title":"Uncovering Wullenweber’s “Elephant Cages”","author":"Thomas","date":"October 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Bill Patalon, for sharing this article via Gizmodo: In the early days of electronic espionage, the US intelligence community didn't have the benefit of all-seeing spy satellites\u2014it had to intercept and interpret high-frequency radio waves transmitted by the Soviet Union. 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