Topband: Amazing Video of an extremely large circular array

[donovanf at starpower.net]

The Soviet Krug array was a much smaller than the array in the video, nearly identical to the World War II German Wullenweber array.  The Krug construction techniques were far different and much less expensive than those shown in the video.  

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/03files/Krug_Antenna_Circles_02_Russia_West.html

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Ak1l3tgYH-k/SkBLkkkfXVI/AAAAAAAAAEA/KHssUy8ewWQ/s1600-h/Krug.Gatchina.jpg

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/04images/Krug/Odessa_I_PC030200_8965681.jpg

It appears that the array in the YouTube video is the much larger ionospheric sounder antenna associated with the Chernobyl Over-the-Horizon Radar (the woodpecker) from the 1970s. 

http://lplaces.com/en/reports/13-chornobyl-2

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/03files/Russian_Bases_Woodpecker_Duga_Radar_Ukraine.html

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/04images/Krug/Duga_3_8263025.jpg

73
Frank
W3LPL



---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:02:40 -0700
>From: James Rodenkirch <rodenkirch_llc at msn.com>  
>Subject: RE: Topband: Amazing Video of an extremely large circular array  
>To: <w0uce at nc.rr.com>, <topband at contesting.com>
>Cc: <donovanf at starpower.net>
>
>   And, here's more info than you might need but, some block
>   diagram sort of drawings:
>
>   http://www.navy-radio.com/frd10.htm
>
>
>    From: w0uce at nc.rr.com
>   To: topband at contesting.com
>   Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:30:10 -0500
>   CC: donovanf at starpower.net
>   Subject: Re: Topband: Amazing Video of an extremely large
>   circular array
>
>   Frank:
>
>   I think the antenna in the video is a former Soviet Union
>   "Cold War" version
>   of a German Wullenweber also known as a Circularly Disposed
>   Antenna Array
>   (CDAA)
>
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wullenweber
>