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Field Station Augsburg AN/FLR-9 HF/DF Array

Germany / Bayern / Gersthofen /
 military, antenna
The AN/FLR-9 is a type of very large circular "Wullenweber" antenna array, built at many locations during the cold war for HF/DF direction finding of high priority targets. The world-wide network, known collectively as "Iron Horse", could locate on HF communications from almost anywhere on the planet.

The Augsburg FLR-9 was installed in 1970 and deactivated in 1993. It was turned over to the Bundesnachrichtendienst, the German Intelligence Service known as the BND, in 1998.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLR-9
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Coordinates:   48°27'4"N   10°51'45"E
This article was last modified 8 years ago