{"id":24871,"date":"2017-04-01T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=24871"},"modified":"2017-03-31T09:12:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T13:12:10","slug":"paul-remembers-the-flr-9-elephant-cage-in-misawa-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/paul-remembers-the-flr-9-elephant-cage-in-misawa-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul remembers the FLR-9 “Elephant Cage” in Misawa Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

I was a morse intercept operator in the USAF in the late 1960s. I have a nice picture of a FLR-9 at Misawa Japan (now gone I think):<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I was at Misawa from 68-70 in the USAF Security Service. I copied high speed code, mostly cut numbers. Got my ham license after discharge. I had 3 R390 receivers at my “position” and numerous different “antennas” on the FLR-9 to listen in different directions. While there I received a commendation for: “Providing information that otherwise would not have been known” I’m not sure I can say any more details.<\/p>\n

To me [this photo] shows the immensity of the antenna.
\nThanks.
\nPaul<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes–this antenna is enormous!<\/em>\u00a0It must be a site to see up close. I’ve only seen Wullenweber Antennas from satellite imagery. Thank you so much for sharing your photo!<\/p>\n

Click here to read previous posts about “Elephant Cages.”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul, who writes: I was a morse intercept operator in the USAF in the late 1960s. I have a nice picture of a FLR-9 at Misawa Japan (now gone I think): I was at Misawa from 68-70 in the USAF Security Service. I copied high speed code, mostly cut […]<\/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],"tags":[3338,752,3067,3335,6072,6073,5347,3336,3337],"class_list":["post-24871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-circular-receiving-antennas","tag-cold-war","tag-cold-war-radio","tag-elephant-cages","tag-flr-9","tag-misawa-japan","tag-usaf","tag-wullenweber","tag-wullenweber-antennas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6t9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11192,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/tearing-down-an-elephant-cage\/","url_meta":{"origin":24871,"position":0},"title":"Tearing down an Elephant Cage","author":"Thomas","date":"October 26, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"This past week, I posted a couple of articles about\u00a0Wullenweber\u00a0antennas (a.k.a. \"Elephant Cages\"). 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