NSGA Homestead AN/FRD-10 Array, Site Alpha | military, antenna, abandoned / shut down

USA / Florida / Homestead /
 military, antenna, abandoned / shut down
This former Naval Security Group HF/DF station was used to intercept and locate voice and message traffic transmitted on short-wave channels. The station closed in 1993 due to hurricane damage.

There were sixteen AN/FRD-10 high-frequency direction-finding arrays built by the United States and Canada during the 1960s and 1970s. These sixteen stations, along with a number of Pusher HF/DF arrays, comprised the US Naval Security Group's BULLSEYE HFDF net. Pushers was simply the name given to simpler CDAAs.

The arrays operated in the range of 2 to 32 MHz. Their function was to detect, monitor, and plot the location of Soviet submarines and other radio emitters in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The largest array was some 260 m in diameter, 36 m high, and sat on a ground plane of 390 m diameter, with a two storey building at its centre, housing the main equipment and operators.

A heliport was once located here:
www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=25.37254&lon=-80.42342&dat...
www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/classic_bullseye.htm
www.navycthistory.com/homestead_intro.html
luxexumbra.blogspot.com/2005/06/frd-10-endangered-speci...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wullenweber
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Coordinates:   25°22'21"N   80°25'24"W

Comments

  • The CDDA (circular disposed dipole array, aka "dinosaur cage") was the "radio antenna" at this site.
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