PIN-Main Radar Site

Canada / Northwest Territories / Norman Wells /
 military, early warning radar
Established and declared operational in 1957 following several years of construction, the PIN-Main or Cape Parry radar site operated as a Main or Sector Headquarters station for the PIN Sector of the DEW Line. Spanning some 2,607 acres and equipped with a large airfield, large seaside beaching area and expansive dormitory facilities, PIN-Main operated not only as a major radar site, but also as the primary logistical hub for material and main transfer point for personnel moving between PIN sector stations stretching Eastward to Cape Peel in Nunavut. Often busiest during the during the brief summer months, the station would oversee round-the-clock air operations as sealift resupply convoys flooded supplies and personnel into the station for distribution throughout the sector.

From 1957 through 1963, the site also operated as one of four Rearward/Vertical Communications sites built to receive and relay surveillance data from the DEW Line to military authorities in the United States and Canada via RCAF Station Stoney Mountain (WAT-X). This task was accomplished by the use of the IS-101 Ionoscatter Radio system, also known as the AN/FRC-101, which carried data teletype transmissions over the 1,000+ mile distance between the stations.

Operating through the end of the DEW Line in August of 1989, PIN-Main's facilities were reused for the housing of AN/FPS-117 long-range radar system as the facility became part of the North Warning System. Serving in the same NWS role as it did with the DEW Line, PIN-Main remains the primary logistics support base for the North Warning System stations roughly half of the PIN and BAR sectors, and is manned continuously by approximately 15 personnel who conduct regular deployments to the outlying stations for maintenance and resupply during the summer months.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Warning_System
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Coordinates:   70°9'54"N   124°41'44"W

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