{"id":8232,"date":"2013-12-09T16:17:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T20:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=8232"},"modified":"2013-12-09T16:17:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T20:17:19","slug":"photos-of-duga-3-a-k-a-the-woodpecker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/photos-of-duga-3-a-k-a-the-woodpecker\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of Duga-3, a.k.a. the “Woodpecker”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Duga-3-Woodpecker\"<\/a>The website Artificial Owl<\/a> has posted some incredible photos of Duga-3–better known to many SWLs and amateur radios operators as the “Woodpecker.” What an incredible structure. Click here to view the photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. Click here to view the photos.<\/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":[3,305,288],"tags":[2405,2404,2403],"class_list":["post-8232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","tag-duga-3","tag-russian-woodpecker","tag-woodpecker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-28M","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37457,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/photo-gallery-stephen-makes-a-pilgrimage-to-the-duga-2-site\/","url_meta":{"origin":8232,"position":0},"title":"Photo Gallery: Stephen makes a pilgrimage to the Duga site","author":"Thomas","date":"May 15, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Stephen Cooper who shares photos from his recent visit to the Duga\u00a0Soviet Union era over-the-horizon (OTH) radar system near Chernobyl. 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Looks like the film is more conspiracy than investigative reporting. Too bad. 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