| Image Comments |
| ElbertC | 07-May-14 07:03 |
| Just finished My GCA Unit. I worked on this equipment when I was in the Air Force |
| frwyflyer | 07-May-14 09:33 |
| VERY NICE!! Scratch built? Those antennas look great. |
| ElbertC | 07-May-14 19:49 |
| Scratch built from the ground up! Thanks for the comment. I didn't know if anyone knew what a GCA unit was. It stands for Ground Controlled Approach. The search radar had a 60 mile range and the Precision approach had a 10 mile range. |
| BillParker | 08-May-14 09:54 |
| That's really KEWL! What scale is it, if you had to put a number on it?
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| frwyflyer | 08-May-14 18:38 |
| The search radar that I am familiar with had a range of appropriately 200 miles "HIPAR". See Nike Hercules george my old site |
| David Duckett | 08-May-14 18:49 |
| When I re-entered the Air Force after a 5 month break from my first enlistment, I had to go into electronics, or back to a band(!!!) and they gave me the choice of schools. AC&W, GCA, Auto Track, or computers. I chose Auto Track. Worked out alright. |
| ElbertC | 08-May-14 19:11 |
| DD, Knew what most of that stuff did but never understood Auto Track. Did you track bombs? The scale is about 1/35, If I can find some maintenance people around then I will put them to work. It looks like the installation is not complete. |
| ElbertC | 08-May-14 19:14 |
| frwyflyer, was that Nike Hercules George site a missile site? I remember building a model of a Nike when I was kid. |
| David Duckett | 08-May-14 19:19 |
| http://www.combatskyspot.com/historyvietnam.htm Explains it fairly well |
| ElbertC | 08-May-14 19:28 |
| Very interesting. I didn't know all that. I looked at the Nike stuff also. That to is very interesting. When I was out at Holloman we watched rocket sled shots using old Nike motors. |
| frwyflyer | 08-May-14 19:46 |
| Nike George is actually LA 78 Malibu Beach, CA. George was the Battery commander that took these pictures. I left in Dec 62 after the up grade installation was completed ETS was up!! The radar area was at 3000 feet above sea level and we could "see" quite a way out to sea where the Russian "trawlers" were eaves dropping. The missiles were Nike Hercules with a range of just over 100 miles. I operated that small radar in the lower right on the 40' tower. Missile tracking. Guess who had to drag those cables across the cable track to the antenna:) |
| ElbertC | 08-May-14 21:01 |
| Great info. I like tracking down old missile sites. |
