| Posted by thparkth |
7/21/2008 11:30 PM | remove |
That size of base is consistent with a 40-60ish foot tower. Any idea how far apart the two towers were? The actual antenna may have been a horizontal wire structure suspended between the two towers.
It's interesting to speculate about what this site was for. Nova Scotia was a major location for the development of early radar and LORAN navigation during WWII but there's no record of a station at Chezzecook. If the timeline given for this location is correct - active during and after WWII - it's possible it was a signals intelligence station - listening to HF traffic between German vessels in the North Atlantic.
Of course, this is just speculation...
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| Posted by nootz |
7/22/2008 9:45 AM | remove |
The bases were at least 500ft away from each other. I could be mistaken though.
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| Posted by thparkth |
7/22/2008 11:21 AM | remove |
That's certainly consistent with a structure containing horizontal half-wave elements for frequencies down to about 1 MHz, which would fit very well with the low-HF frequencies which were in heavy naval use around then.
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| Posted by nootz |
7/22/2008 8:57 PM | remove |
Ok, so maybe my buddy was right when he said "There's an old listening station in East Chezzetcook."
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| Posted by thparkth |
7/22/2008 9:02 PM | remove |
Certainly possible. The most salient fact about this location is that there doesn't appear to be any record of it existing.
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| Posted by nootz |
7/22/2008 10:48 PM | remove |
Could check public archives, like actually go in person to check, but I doubt they'd have anything. Especially if you can't find it online.
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| Posted by thparkth |
7/22/2008 11:39 PM | remove |
Yup, those WWII history buffs are even more obsessive-compulsive than UEers.
There's not a LORAN station, experimental radar station, coast guard station, ship-to-shore radio station or broadcast station in the whole of Nova Scotia, ever, that you won't be able to identify in about five minutes Googling.
But signals intelligence locations are never publicly acknowledged, and signals intelligence staff have a culture of not talking - even decades later. Even today in Britain there are a few veterans of Bletchley Park (where they decoded the German signals) who won't talk about the work they did in WWII even though the goverment declassified it all in the 70s.
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