{"id":15173,"date":"2015-10-16T06:45:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T10:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=15173"},"modified":"2015-10-16T06:45:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T10:45:37","slug":"a-v-club-reviews-the-russian-woodpecker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/a-v-club-reviews-the-russian-woodpecker\/","title":{"rendered":"A.V.Club reviews “The Russian Woodpecker”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Duga-3-Woodpecker\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Charles, who writes:<\/p>\n

Thomas, you might find this movie review of “The Russian Woodpecker” interesting. Looks like the film is more conspiracy than investigative reporting. Too bad. Having dealt with Woodpecker noise during\u00a0my ham radio career, it would have been fun to know more about the motivation behind building that enormous OTH radar:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/review\/russian-woodpecker-offers-plenty-conspiracy-little-226743<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Charles, who writes: Thomas, you might find this movie review of “The Russian Woodpecker” interesting. Looks like the film is more conspiracy than investigative reporting. Too bad. Having dealt with Woodpecker noise during\u00a0my ham radio career, it would have been fun to know more about the motivation behind building […]<\/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],"tags":[2404,2403],"class_list":["post-15173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radio-history","tag-russian-woodpecker","tag-woodpecker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3WJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16740,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/the-russian-woodpecker-movie-now-online\/","url_meta":{"origin":15173,"position":0},"title":"The Russian Woodpecker movie: now online","author":"Thomas","date":"January 12, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Andrea Borgnino, who tweets: The Russian Woodpecker movie is now on Vimeo, Google Play & Itunes: http:\/\/www.russianwoodpecker.com\/ Thanks, Andrea! 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That couldn\u2019t be further from the truth. When the Chernobyl nuclear explosion happened in 1986, it shook the world in many ways. Not only did it put the now ghost town of Pripyat on the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Duga-3-Woodpecker.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Duga-3-Woodpecker.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Duga-3-Woodpecker.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8232,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/photos-of-duga-3-a-k-a-the-woodpecker\/","url_meta":{"origin":15173,"position":2},"title":"Photos of Duga-3, a.k.a. the “Woodpecker”","author":"Thomas","date":"December 9, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The website Artificial Owl has posted some incredible photos of Duga-3--better known to many SWLs and amateur radios operators as the \"Woodpecker.\" What an incredible structure. 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The following photo gallery contains images of the antenna, control room, training room and server room. 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