Troposhere radio station "Quartz"

 microwave tower / microwave transmission, closed / former military

TRRS 11-103. Cape St. nose, the Laptev Sea. Call sign - "Quartz". In / h - 48242

Sub-station "Quartz" was related station in the south-west of "Cupid" at 427 km, and in the south-east "Malachite" - 376 km. This is, perhaps, was the most difficult point in the entire system TRRL North. The geographical coordinates of the station: 72.85 School 140.82 WA.
GFMV 10/103 ( «Quartz») was put into operation in late 1970, during the second half of December. It was launched only 3 antennas - 2 for Tiksi and one at Chokurdah. The second chokurdahskuyu antenna mounted in summer 1971

Living conditions at the point were, to put it mildly, austere. The climate is very severe. Rare case of the days when the wind is not blowing snogsshibayuschy. PERSONNEL kungovom lived in town, the officers - in a model metallic dormitory on stilts. The nearest neighbors, we were living on the shores of the ocean polar Glavsevmorputi, yes to 150 kilometers to the east kochevala (and even then not always) a team of reindeer herders, Yukagirs. In fact, not even the notion of «uvolnitelnaya», because the dismissal was nowhere to go. Yes to the same frequent and rather severe snowstorm, duvshie from one to three days, often confuse the legs.

Basic food and fuel, we were delivered to the navigation on the sea 1 every year in September. E-mail, film, some parts, the personal orders - special flight from Tiksi to the extent possible, depending on the weather, every 2-3 months. On the shore of the polar plot was unroll tractors Bank, which may sit en-2, and, of course, the helicopter. Sometimes the helicopter and sat right on our site.

200 liter barrels of oil in the tractor «foam» (sheet metal) from the shore zataskivalis here on the mountain, and pump in 50-cubes tank. Empty barrels and then just dropped down and all around was littered with them. Practices «pass» empty container at empty ships why is not there.
The road from the coast to the hills took a tractor, I think, one and a half to two hours.
At the same «foam» возили winter with the lake shore boulders of snow, sometimes ice, of which ldotayalke DGK receiving water. Of course, it very loosely be defined as a drinking, because in the process of traveling to «foam» this snow partially soaked with the remnants of fuel, remaining bound after transporting barrels. Often, compote, tea is quite favored solarium.

Technicians were 3 units: tractor DT-75, «Bolotnikov» T-100 and cross-country vehicle GTT. This cross-country vehicle once (summer 1972), which went on the hunt, with the collapse in the coastal snow boost river, cover the exhaust pipe was not closed and the engine zalilo. Since then he has not actually worked.

In June, our Cape bypassed on the shoreline reaching from the mainland to escape the midges and midge, herds of wild deer - tens of thousands. In those 1-2 days we will finish what it nastrelyat, zagotavlivaya meat in a glacier. Also during the summer arrives from the south of the mass of geese and ducks, and they too became the object of our hunt. At sea could hunt for seal, but that we had no boats, and a polar submarine was in those periods. Even in summer on the shore could be seen песцов, which at that time like the dirty dog (molting), in winter as they have not come across.
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