Used to work there 35 to 45 years ago. The bunker was actually a seismograph station. Techs used to change the photographic paper every morning about 7am. Hard to do as it was done almost in complete darkness. 3 drums East West 3 drums North South. Nothing else happend there except telecomuniations.
Hi Steve! Wow I had almost forgotten I explored this place! SO cool to hear from someone who worked there! How many people on site working there back in the day? :-)
@@urbexindigo5164 5 Guys on rotaing 24hr shift plus another 15 to 20 performing runs along the microwave routes to Berri, Pt pirie, Mt gambier, Pt lincoln and Broken hill. The places demise started about 1990 when optic fibre became so cheap that radio was in it's death throes. It surprises me there are no mobile installations up there even now, but it would appear not. I left in 1990 after 14 yrs.
My eldest brother used to work there when it was the pmg. He climed the lofty towers every day until ash Wednesday. It was part of his job. A man died that day on the towers. They had a good job and it was a happy place to work 50s 60s I remember as a very little girl going there. My brother is 20yrs my senior.
Hey Orlando family here. The Mt Bonython Radio Communications Terminal (as I knew it) now ceases to exist - progress! I was a bit surprised that it had completely closed down as (in my time) it also serviced a number of small comms links to places like Kangaroo Island, York Peninsula + other - the Yagi antennas (the ones that look like fancy TV antenna) point in the direction of those serviced areas. I worked mainly on the broadband systems (those employing parabolic “dish” antennas). Back then, Mt Bonython was the Sth Aust Radio Comms Terminal for all broadband routs in/out of the state. 1. E-W route to Perth (via Eucla) 2. S-E route to Melbourne (via Bordertown) 3. N-E route to Melbourne/Sydney (via Berri, SA & Mildura, Vic) I assume that the Mt Bonython terminal has been relocated to another site - probably atop the Telecom building in Waymouth Street? Less bushfire hazard with a city location. See you at mum's for dinner tonight!
This place is (or was) the Mt. Bonython Radio Communications Terminal, located in the hills above Adelaide. It was the hub for microwave links to interstate destinations, and intrastate links. There were no TV transmitters there, they were located at Mt. Lofty, one hill south. Air traffic, taxi and the like transmitter sites were a couple of hills north, at Summertown. Mt. Bonython was the jewel in the crown of the PMG/Telecom Australia Radio Branch. In its heyday it was staffed 24/7 with three rotating shifts. Everyone worked hard, including those on the “graveyard shift” who were given specific tasks for completion before knock-off at 7am. In other places where 24/7 staffing was employed similar workers could get a little sleep if things were quiet. Not at Mt. Bonython. Fresh coffee was brewed every morning by the female support person who would announce over the PA , “Gentlemen, your coffee is ready”. I was not on staff there, but as a long line transmission specialist in the 1970s (mainly co-ax systems) I made frequent visits to Bonython to install and interconnect broadband telephony and TV baseband systems from Adelaide to the radio bearers. This occurred through a “panel of demarcation”, where my systems and the radio interfaces appeared and were connected via bright red co-ax U-links labelled “do not remove”. It was always a vigorous point of discussion if signal levels were not correct at the interconnect point. The radio gear, according to them, was never wrong. They were right - most of the time. Access to the Terminal, via the narrow winding track from Summit Road honking the car horn at every bend, used to be uninhibited. But, as the years passed and security became more of an issue across most comms. sites, cameras (with window wipers) and electric gates became the norm. When the site became destaffed, ad hoc access was via gate code or remote control. The station was a real showpiece. There was aisle upon aisle of (mostly) Siemens and Halske radio gear humming away, and with a forest of waveguides with their pin point accurate bends sweeping out through panels to ascend the tower outside to the dishes. There was an entire suite of alarm displays from all radio repeater sites across the state. You could eat your lunch off the floor. Hence, flicking excess solder off a soldering iron tip was deeply frowned upon. Doubtless today all the equipment is turned off, and probably still in place, abandoned. Until, or if ever, the floor space is needed there it will sit. The entire place narrowly missed being destroyed in the terrible Adelaide Hills fires of 1983. It would, in fact, now make a wonderful museum site.
@user-tf3up1yo7e amazing! :-) Thanks you for sharing such an detailed and vivid account of this site. One of my first explores and I did always wonder what it was like when it was staffed. It definitely had a feel of once being a hive of human activity and expertise. A very lonely feel up there now although very serene. You must have been very good at your craft with radio. :-) Cheers.
This site is shown on the ACMA database as having 114 active frequency allocations. They are all microwave links and 3G/4G/5G bases for Telstra, Optus, Vodafone and JV Mobile. Unfortunately with all these sites being unstaffed now and no maintenance, they look very unloved. I worked for Telecom Australia before it became Telstra for over 18 years and visted the site where I used to work to do a job as a contractor. It still had all the old microwave equipment from my day, just turned off. These sites only exist today because of mobile phones. The site was literally falling to bits. Sites that aren't of use for mobiles are generally completely abandoned.
That's some pretty high security, especially for the period it was built, what that security camera was is actually an armored housing w/ snow and debris wiper, typical for military use
So cool! I used to work in radio and television. It’s crazy to see all the equipment just left to decay. Communications change pretty fast and they have to keep up. Wonder how long it was in use and how long it’s been abandoned. Thanks a lot for this one!👍🏻
Wow that would have been an interesting job Shirley?? I wish I was able to have got a peek inside these building but it still was well worth the hike up to explore it :-)
This was a really cool explore! All the tech and cooling was mad too! Definitely a bit more than just telecommunications took place there back in the day lol. The camera with the wipers on was a bit whacky! Enjoyed hearing the wind in the trees oddly. Great explore as always
My sister works in the cell tower industry and here in the states there are searchable listings by location to tell you who is broadcasting from where, right down to the property owner and call letters of the station, along with the type of license. (commercial broadcast, emergency services, relay links, cell provider, etc) Further info is also listed as to ground elevation and tower height, along with ERP (effective radiated power) and technical stuff. The info plate on the entrance gate can provide a wealth of info too. (blurred out in this video)
Former owner of a small telecom site here. Most likely, some of the transmitters are still operating, but it was surprising to see so many things 'abandoned in place'. Good engineering practice normally requires non-operating antennas to be removed. There is some security on-site: the black devices on short poles are infrared intrusion detectors of fairly recent manufacture. Unknown if they're operating (you'd need an infrared sensitive camera to see the IR emitters in them).
Wow! Thanks for watching pixoariz! Funny as the camcorder I was using also has IR capabilities but did not think to check for that in the daylight. :-) I do think that tall tower is operating. It does seem at one point this was a daily operation for people to come to work??? During the old Telecom days? Cheers :-)
@@urbexindigo5164 Yup, with many night vision camcorders there's an IR filter that will swing into place during normal shooting mode, which helps the color balance. I watched the vid again, and noticed that weeds may have blocked some of the intrusion detectors, which operate point-to-point in this type. So, I'd guess that they were 'off'.
I agree with most of the comments...it looks to me like a former government monitoring site (why else would there be an incinerator?) that was abandoned and sold to private interests because of its location. Looks like a lot of repeater antennae there. The new owners probably removed or abandoned most of the old equipment and installed their necessary equipment in smaller "bunkers" which are locked. Those sensors are a cause for concern for any trespassers, but most of the time they just signal an alert and / or take pictures. In my (US) community, we had an old well with a scary-looking stone bunkhouse that I think was used to access water delivery equipment. We called it the "Witches' Well" (search RUclips). They had motion-activated cameras surrounding the barbed-wire fence that delivered a recorded warning message over loudspeakers whenever someone got too close.
Great comments The Magus :-) yes definitely agree this used to be a government facility, I am glad I did not trigger any loud speakers here! lol I will look up the Witches Well, thanks for watching :-)
The equipment is I believe, a signal translator system, boosts a weak signal and re-broadcasts it v h f, prior to the digital satellite transfer systems common now. Think of an old Cathode ray t v compared to a new flat screen model. The Best new systems will fit in a computer mainframe the size of a laptop, and generate twice the signal strength . That's how the USA controls Drones from a base 1 hour out of Las Vegas, and is capable of flying them anywhere on the globe.
Awesome! Thanks for that info Gary Robertson, yeah it definitely looked like an older tech had become obsolete and the place no longer needed to be staffed. Reminded me of a military compound or something similar from back in the day. Thanks for watching! :-)
This station stands for the demise of commercial terrestrial comms, very sad as terrestrial radio is still and will always be the most reliable means of communication and it is a bad idea to not keep its infrastructure functional for backup purposes. But still what a cool place! This is a ham's dream, being a ham myself I can tell! Not only as a repeater site but also what a contest station could be built there! I'm guessing that the bunker is the power substation, it makes sense to put this at a distance to the rf stuff. As against others' guesses there's nothing there that tells me military in the first place, the kind of antennas is pretty typical for commercial sites; dishes and yagis for long range linking to other sites, some vhf/uhf verticals for repeaters or broadcast and some cell stuff. It would theoretically be possible that some of those yagis were pointed towards remote settlements for tv reception but I'm not Australian and can't tell if this was done at all. The screening on the in- or outside of the windows is definitely for rf shielding, the brick walls will also be lined on the inside. It looks like people were actually working there at the time but keep in mind that the equipment inside the buildings also needs to be shielded from possible interference from the antennas. As there are foundations with no towers on I guess that this could eventually have been a high power short-wave, medium wave or long-wave station at one time. Unfortunately what looks like the backup generators seem to be in pretty rough nick. It is difficult to tell what could still be running today. Did you see anything inside the main building or were all those rooms empty? If you wanted to be very cheeky you could have entered a code looking for a reaction. If the code locks are out of order pretty certainly nothing is left running inside. I would think that probably only the little hut next to the cell tower is still active.
Hey Martin thanks so much for that detailed response! :-) From what i could see inside through the window was empty rooms and booths with large windows. Indeed the walls looked to be lined with something and i figured it was for protection. The whole place had a type of secret feel to it but I thinks that is just because it is so well hidden and way up high. It looked to be a very organized work place for people once upon a time. I really know nothing about all the towers and generators but what you said makes perfect sense. I did not see any lights flashing or current security systems in place. So mabye it is just a very basic self sufficient phone tower now?
Awesome Site ! What was it ? At first glance it looked to me to be a Telecom (telephone/data company's) remote relay site- but then there are those infrared perimeter security detectors... the video camera with a screen wiper ! ... the coded access gates..... This was much much more than any commercial telephone relay site ! This was once a staff'd facility... the offices, tech rooms- the water cisterns and large parking lots (my guess is that bunker--like structure for sewage handling)-- all things that speak to what went on there-- and they must have been quite important to have personnel at the station directly operating the equipment .... I don't know anything about the Australian military, but military is what it appears to me. The towers themselves support quite a number of point-to-point microwave dishes.... the same sort of stuff used in telecom communications- the type used at common relay sites. But there are those 400 Mhz beams and UHF omni antenna that says direct communications, or remote base stations--- the plot just thicken'd ..... :) Whatever it was, its looks like its mission has passed. If you went inside that main building my guess is you'd find it cleaned out. The missing feeds on some of those dishes says there is nothing in there active anymore, save maybe a UHF repeater or two. The overall site appears to be still in use, however-- that second smaller tower has 900/1300 Mhz slot antennas on it-- cellular telephone company stuff-- so it has probably been leased to a 'phone company.... the military warning signs now replaced with that "Private Property' ones. But these are just my conjectures.... :) I love old installations like this !... thanks for posting the video.....:)
Hey ana ixtar thanks for watching and your interest on this one and you are correct as I did some research and it is used for telecommunications still so it would have been a long time as you say since staff were on site as this facility was distinctly used for something other than that and I would say military also. I also found out that it is not good to be that close to those telecommunication towers as the EMF levels are off the charts hahaha. peering through the windows there sort of seemed to be a very well protected lining on the walls. Maybe for that very reason.
I'm guessing telephony or defense based on my U.S. knowledge, though there appear to be two cut-to-signal VHF -- not sure what those are all about. I'm not seeing any traditional TV, FM or AM broadcast, but I know the cellular stick is active. Urbex I don't believe you were at-peril, since the bulk of that site is decommissioned. If you tour a similar site, you of course want to stay away from the conductors, and above all the combiner shack. Usually those are well-fenced and locked, but trust me, RF is a different animal.. Excellent find.
Its an old Telstra Facility, long replaced by Optic Fibre, but even when in use, other users could hire space in the complex, or build there own buildings onsite under a long term lease arrangement.......This site would have likely have had the Local TV channels broadcast from there as well (Translators), and I would be very surprised if there weren't some local users still using the site ie , Police and Emergency services radio's.......A lot of these sites have fallen into disrepair because the big Telstra Maintenance budgets are now gone.....there are hundreds of these sites right across Australia, mostly only supporting local two way radio systems now......and may only get visited if a system breaks down, hence they look deserted. When Telstra were in full swing using them, they were often staffed 24 hours a day on major radio relay routes.
Wow! That makes so much sense and I was genuinely hoping someone would have some knowledge on it`s possible past. I got the feeling at some point it was a daily work place in its past and the old school security cameras suggested high importance as you would expect. The trail up too it is over grown but a service ute could still easily access it if required. They just don`t need much maintenance I guess. Thanks so much for the comments and support Harb`s Electronic Lab :-)
Nice explanation Harb....:) I am not familiar at all with Australia's microwave past... and when I saw those security devices my first thought was Military. In the US, back in the late '40's early 50's there where many such relay sites scatter'd across the unpopulated western regions- these buildings are now virtually all gone. I did have an opportunity to visit a few still in existence in central Kansas, - long since inactivated- but closed up and industrially seal'd- they were absolutely complete inside like the crew was just stepped out for a quick lunch. Today the remaining serve as limited, leased V/UHF repeater sites and nesting places for crows.... all the old valve equipment is gone :) What always amazed me about these installations was they were *staffed.* Out in the middle of nowhere- solid brick buildings of late Art Deco design: bathrooms with showers, a kitchens, offices, and huge racks of microwave transmitters-receivers, telephone switch boards-- and of course the 100 meter tall towers festoon'd with cornucopia horns. In the US these sites, though commercial telecom, were also part of the military defense communications systems- and they where constructed "hardened' against nuclear threats.... those towers especially--- left alone they look like they could endure eons... :) The buildings themselves had coal fired furnaces for heating, elaborate water systems, trees and outdoor picnic areas, paved sidewalks and parking lots... Try as the Telco's did to make these places attractive, I can only imagine what it must have been like to have staff'd them-- out in the Great Nothing-- during a raging blizzard. Since they were microwave relays, they sat on the highest hills in the bleakest, windy-ist places..... I have visit'd the White Alice sites in the Alaskan bush- only those relay sites (to me) looked lonelier ...... :)
I know exactly where this site is. It IS an ex Telstra site, but it wasn't used for broadcast TV. Funnily enough, I never knew it was abandoned until now! :D
Harb's Elecronics Lab Tell what? That it wasn't used for TV? Way back when I was a lad, I knew people in the technical departments of ABC2, NWS9 & SAS10. They said back then that the signals were relayed 'directly' to the Mt Lofty transmitter towers via microwave link. This site is not at Mt Lofty. Though, certain programme materials may have been relayed interstate via this facility.
Not abandoned. Sites like this used to be manned, but due to modernisation no longer need to be. It’ll still be live, all the metal alone would be worth too much to just abandon. It’s just no one needs to be there anymore.
kind of reminds me of the radio Station in the 1960s TV series. "The Outer-Limits" the one with the Galaxy Being . . . and all that Rack equipment in the outbuilding there! Wow, pretty Old school but totally cool tho! :) I recognized a power supply, but the camera did not linger long enough for me to make out the rest. . .
Hey Dusterdude238 thanks for watching. Yeah my camera work can be too quick sometimes particularly if I`m looking in a different spot than the camera. lol. :-) This place is around that age I think but has a functioning mobile tower still. Still very secluded and abandoned though :-)
I seriously doubt this site is fully abandoned. Things may be a bit different in Australia from here in the states but no one would walk away from this much expensive equipment. Very poorly maintained maybe. What a shame and waste if it is abandoned
Everyone needs to remember that during the Cold War and also the Apollo missions Telstra had many of these types of facilities for relaying space mission information and clandestine spy agency communications. Nothing abandoned here just no longer needs to be manned.
Just had to come back & hear the door slam shut again. Can't believe how the time has gone by.. Glad we've gotten to be friends. If ever winning the lotto would luv to go to Australia & we could meet in person. Maybe M5 (Mike)as well...would be a blast !
Interesting place to explore. I know nothing about telecommunications but I think a wander through there would be fascinating. Almost disgraced myself when that door slammed 😂
Hey, a simple search on the acma database will show you what is still in use there, also shows recently decommissioned sites on the map it shows two disused sites there, two towers are not in use and another two are in use The two in use are, Airservices Radar, and the Telstra Tower (Though a lot on the telstra tower is obviously disused) I can't find how to private msg you, you may have it off, if you send me a private message i will send you a link to the sites map if you wish :)
Hold a flourescent light tube up near or infront of any of those antennas to see if any of them are still being used...if its receive it wont work ...but do it at night ..in daylight it might not be bright enough to see if its a lower transmitter
Good call Robert, I think the very tall tower is active with mobile service perhaps. his place I guess shut down when things all became automated. thanks for watching :-)
Hi Robert, Orlando's family here. The Mt Bonython Radio Communications Terminal (as I knew it) now ceases to exist - progress! I was a bit surprised that it had completely closed down as (in my time) it also serviced a number of small comms links to places like Kangaroo Island, York Peninsula + other - the Yagi antennas (the ones that look like fancy TV antenna) point in the direction of those serviced areas. I worked mainly on the broadband systems (those employing parabolic “dish” antennas). Back then, Mt Bonython was the Sth Aust Radio Comms Terminal for all broadband routs in/out of the state. 1. E-W route to Perth (via Eucla) 2. S-E route to Melbourne (via Bordertown) 3. N-E route to Melbourne/Sydney (via Berri, SA & Mildura, Vic) I assume that the Mt Bonython terminal has been relocated to another site - probably atop the Telecom building in Waymouth Street? Less bushfire hazard with a city location. Cheers!
@@ellemieglich5091 very interesting!. I worked briefly in broadcast radio. still interested in it.. I'm an Amateur radio op n3vxt. I've always wanted to visit one of these sites. possibly a bunker type from the cold war. would be great to purchase a site and turn it into some personal amateur radio site or club..
That place is pretty cool,awesome view I thought you might have needed a clean pair of undies after that gate slammed shut behind you,good explore mate cheers.
I would be a kid in a candy store. I would have a field day being able to sell all of that and keep some for my ham radio shack. Those roll of helix is the same I had at a radio station worked at long ago. I know I would have to travel to the bush country but would keep me busy.
Hi Robert :-) Glad you understand what all those things were as I did not really at the time haha. An interesting trek up there and explore for sure :-)
Pete ... you missed the small cell tower in the back of the lot. It was at the end of that row of small buildings he was exploring and probably 100 feet from the main towers. Obviously it's all secondary to the main purpose of the site and is self contained in it's own corner.
Someone or some company spent big money on that installation back in the day ... What a waste , but hey i Nice find i enjoyed this explore very much thank you ! :D
Hey Stefan it is a shame I could not find an open door or something to show you inside. But I enjoyed this explore too, lots to look at still. Cheers for watching :-)
Towers retro fitted with microwave links,the building asbestos heaven ,the EMF made the hairs on my arms stand up,visit these retro fitted towers minimum time on ground before a go around :)4:40 4G repeaters in the retro fit,these towers are active,not a good idea to climb them lol
Hi SIl :-) Thanks for watching and that info and it makes sense. I could definitely tell there was active signals and afterwards I felt a mild headache which may be from the EMF of course. Strange feeling way up there. No one and nothing around......5G is going to fry us! haha :-)
They have towers pooping up all over the U.S. but most of their 'stuff' is at the top of the towers, more compact. Scarey stuff cause they aren't phone towers. The towers seem to be placed where the most folks can be explosed, people think they must be phone towers but do you need close to ten in ONE TOWN ALONE?! Placed by hospitals, schools, malls, eatery places & homes. This guy did experiments & measured the radiation coming off one tower where homes are & 3 or 4 blocks away the radiation on his meter couldn't be measured because it went all the way to the right (it was off the charts) & stayed there & the machine buzzer sound went off. It still did the same thing 6 & 7 blocks away. Who made/put them there the man couldn't find out. I don't know what happened to the guy but he mentioned why he was interested in them because of the very high rate of cancers reported in the town. Hello? What's up with that? And I can't find that guy making videos any more. I don't know if he quit making videos or just vanished.
Urbex Indigo. And we think humans are the 'smartest' things on the planet. Animals get into conflicts they don't stock pile bombs that can distory the world. Oh well. When you made the video where there were lots of bees, I found out something. Vulture Bees= they eat rotten flesh, store it in a special pouch then go to the hive & regurgitated it & it's processed into edible honeylike mataterial. They were found about 200 years ago. Learn something new every day. Happy trails ! ☺
Urbex Indigo. They have a cool 'security' team. Hee hee. Ghosts? Hope you didn't get wet, looks like a storm was coming. That door slamming shut woke me up.😴😴😴BANG!!😨💩😉
Before fibre optics took over, most of the long distance telephone service along with television distribution from the networks to stations was done with microwave equipment which is now obsolete. For example fibre is now so cheap than most of the PBS stations in the northeast are operated from one control center in Syracuse.
And my God at the end of the video you show how deep in the woods you are do you realize how much money that is did build that there that's a very special build at all cost double and triple labor to do that
Hey James! :-) Thanks for watching I agree its initial use would have been military or government to relay radio signals and a look out. Definitely a fair way in the bush especially when it would have been built. Pity there was no open door that I could find anyway. :-) Cheers for watching
How come they abandoned so much hardware? There are VHF antennas, parabolic dipoles and feed horns. God! What were they thinking? Not to forget, horns and dipoles are still wired into the buildings, means, they can be reactivated with some effort, in case racks inside are not empty
I never allowed locks to keep me out when urban exploring...rookie lol. Especially a place like that. My curiosity would get the best of me. Especially when posting on RUclips
The elephant in the room here, it seems to me, is the sign on the gate that you have blurred out!!!! Interesting that at the bottom left, where it is NOT blurred, it appears to say "NSA Site Number.....". Why did you blur out the sign????
I think you are starting to realize exactly why some things are blurred and kept disclosed because very inquisitive people like yourself have the potential to research and leave details in these comment that lead to idiots finding these places and smashing them. Cheers for watching MissAstorDancer. There is a code of Urban Exploring
The minimum wage, unnamed security guy is probably playing video games on a computer somewhere and even if something were to happen on his shift his lazy field supervisor probably tells him to write down "conditions normal" on his hourly log...sadly i speak from past experiences! But then again i was anticipating either The Cable Guy or Wolfman Jack to pop out of nowhere and start on one of their rants. As a long time low paid security guard working in similar lousy conditions, i can only say this video is too real for me!
Haha Ricky I enjoyed just reading your commnets! :-) If it wasn`t for the long trek up the over grown track I would have prob expected to bump in to some sort of security and if I was assigned to be up there computers games or netflix would be a go to I think! haha. :-)
I would have needed clean undies after that door slammed! Have you ever heard or seen anything that was spooky? Like paranormal spooky? I have never seen anything but while visiting supposedly haunted locations have heard some weird stuff!
Hey Bayla yes that door was freaky! There have sure been some spooky houses and seeing you have mentioned Paranormal Spooky I will leave a link below to my other channel which is exactly that. :-) ruclips.net/channel/UCQjIGCYi-49a3jnJMYMWEUw
Thank you! My friends and I love that kind of stuff! Heading to Nevada in a couple weeks and trying to stay at haunted hotels. Also we will be traveling the Extraterrestrial Highway! So much fun!!
Are these for sale? How can I obtain abandoned infastrcture does anyone know? The government owns I believe 60 to 70 percent more property than the entire population and corporations combined and have unlimited budgets to use immediate domain to steal more and it's almost impossible to fight them in a system that is designed to side with them and on top of that they have unlimited recourses to go after anyone who fights back and to go against you in court they need to start selling what they aren't using and don't need! There should be a different option besides them forcing you to sell at low prices or them rarely not getting imminent domain. The people who own the property should be the only ones who should be able to vote on anex or make you sell for a low price there should also be an option to lease the entity the property for a set time not some 90 year BS it should be determined be the people who own the property! Like when these cities take land for reservoirs instead the rural people should be able to sell them the water to the government! Does anyone agree? With me?
На мен ми прилича на станция за измерване на карбонния диоксид във въздуха, отколкото на антени за разпръскване на "сигнал". Истинския сигнал да не е на принципа transmition by wire?
East coast England. Has similar. Remains of cold war LISTNING. Station. As it looks like it gets its fair amount of rain. Also see relay station set ups. Satellites got the better of this system. Cheaper.
Hey James! :-) Thanks for watching I agree its initial use would have been military or government to relay radio signals and a look out. Definitely a fair way in the bush especially when it would have been built. Pity there was no open door that I could find anyway. :-) Cheers for watching
Hahaha!...there's no holy thing there Urbex..lots of creepy things only,,,some making fun of you.. I can hear the whistling sound..anyway your a brave guy..TYVM...lol....
Haha hey Ferlinda I just explored an old shack yesterday and the door that leads inside slammed shut right in front of me as if to say "Your not welcome" :-) It was quite amazing as there were no real gusts of wind prior to it.
Used to work there 35 to 45 years ago. The bunker was actually a seismograph station. Techs used to change the photographic paper every morning about 7am. Hard to do as it was done almost in complete darkness. 3 drums East West 3 drums North South. Nothing else happend there except telecomuniations.
Hi Steve! Wow I had almost forgotten I explored this place! SO cool to hear from someone who worked there! How many people on site working there back in the day? :-)
@@urbexindigo5164 5 Guys on rotaing 24hr shift plus another 15 to 20 performing runs along the microwave routes to Berri, Pt pirie, Mt gambier, Pt lincoln and Broken hill. The places demise started about 1990 when optic fibre became so cheap that radio was in it's death throes. It surprises me there are no mobile installations up there even now, but it would appear not. I left in 1990 after 14 yrs.
My eldest brother used to work there when it was the pmg.
He climed the lofty towers every day until ash Wednesday. It was part of his job. A man died that day on the towers.
They had a good job and it was a happy place to work 50s 60s
I remember as a very little girl going there. My brother is 20yrs my senior.
Hey Orlando family here.
The Mt Bonython Radio Communications Terminal (as I knew it) now ceases to exist - progress!
I was a bit surprised that it had completely closed down as (in my time) it also serviced a number of small comms links to places like Kangaroo Island, York Peninsula + other - the Yagi antennas (the ones that look like fancy TV antenna) point in the direction of those serviced areas.
I worked mainly on the broadband systems (those employing parabolic “dish” antennas).
Back then, Mt Bonython was the Sth Aust Radio Comms Terminal for all broadband routs in/out of the state.
1. E-W route to Perth (via Eucla)
2. S-E route to Melbourne (via Bordertown)
3. N-E route to Melbourne/Sydney (via Berri, SA & Mildura, Vic)
I assume that the Mt Bonython terminal has been relocated to another site - probably atop the Telecom building in Waymouth Street?
Less bushfire hazard with a city location.
See you at mum's for dinner tonight!
Thanks for the background info 👍😊 always great to know first hand from people who have lived worked and owned these places. 😊👍
This place is (or was) the Mt. Bonython Radio Communications Terminal, located in the hills above Adelaide. It was the hub for microwave links to interstate destinations, and intrastate links. There were no TV transmitters there, they were located at Mt. Lofty, one hill south. Air traffic, taxi and the like transmitter sites were a couple of hills north, at Summertown.
Mt. Bonython was the jewel in the crown of the PMG/Telecom Australia Radio Branch. In its heyday it was staffed 24/7 with three rotating shifts. Everyone worked hard, including those on the “graveyard shift” who were given specific tasks for completion before knock-off at 7am. In other places where 24/7 staffing was employed similar workers could get a little sleep if things were quiet. Not at Mt. Bonython. Fresh coffee was brewed every morning by the female support person who would announce over the PA , “Gentlemen, your coffee is ready”.
I was not on staff there, but as a long line transmission specialist in the 1970s (mainly co-ax systems) I made frequent visits to Bonython to install and interconnect broadband telephony and TV baseband systems from Adelaide to the radio bearers. This occurred through a “panel of demarcation”, where my systems and the radio interfaces appeared and were connected via bright red co-ax U-links labelled “do not remove”. It was always a vigorous point of discussion if signal levels were not correct at the interconnect point. The radio gear, according to them, was never wrong. They were right - most of the time.
Access to the Terminal, via the narrow winding track from Summit Road honking the car horn at every bend, used to be uninhibited. But, as the years passed and security became more of an issue across most comms. sites, cameras (with window wipers) and electric gates became the norm. When the site became destaffed, ad hoc access was via gate code or remote control.
The station was a real showpiece. There was aisle upon aisle of (mostly) Siemens and Halske radio gear humming away, and with a forest of waveguides with their pin point accurate bends sweeping out through panels to ascend the tower outside to the dishes. There was an entire suite of alarm displays from all radio repeater sites across the state. You could eat your lunch off the floor. Hence, flicking excess solder off a soldering iron tip was deeply frowned upon.
Doubtless today all the equipment is turned off, and probably still in place, abandoned. Until, or if ever, the floor space is needed there it will sit. The entire place narrowly missed being destroyed in the terrible Adelaide Hills fires of 1983. It would, in fact, now make a wonderful museum site.
@user-tf3up1yo7e amazing! :-) Thanks you for sharing such an detailed and vivid account of this site. One of my first explores and I did always wonder what it was like when it was staffed. It definitely had a feel of once being a hive of human activity and expertise. A very lonely feel up there now although very serene. You must have been very good at your craft with radio. :-) Cheers.
Wow what an Amazing story!!
This site is shown on the ACMA database as having 114 active frequency allocations. They are all microwave links and 3G/4G/5G bases for Telstra, Optus, Vodafone and JV Mobile. Unfortunately with all these sites being unstaffed now and no maintenance, they look very unloved. I worked for Telecom Australia before it became Telstra for over 18 years and visted the site where I used to work to do a job as a contractor. It still had all the old microwave equipment from my day, just turned off. These sites only exist today because of mobile phones. The site was literally falling to bits. Sites that aren't of use for mobiles are generally completely abandoned.
That's some pretty high security, especially for the period it was built, what that security camera was is actually an armored housing w/ snow and debris wiper, typical for military use
This looks like the Mount Bonython Telstra site. Far from abandoned as there is still many live radio equipment in use at this site.
So cool! I used to work in radio and television. It’s crazy to see all the equipment just left to decay. Communications change pretty fast and they have to keep up. Wonder how long it was in use and how long it’s been abandoned. Thanks a lot for this one!👍🏻
Wow that would have been an interesting job Shirley?? I wish I was able to have got a peek inside these building but it still was well worth the hike up to explore it :-)
This was a really cool explore! All the tech and cooling was mad too! Definitely a bit more than just telecommunications took place there back in the day lol. The camera with the wipers on was a bit whacky! Enjoyed hearing the wind in the trees oddly. Great explore as always
My sister works in the cell tower industry and here in the states there are searchable listings by location to tell you who is broadcasting from where, right down to the property owner and call letters of the station, along with the type of license. (commercial broadcast, emergency services, relay links, cell provider, etc) Further info is also listed as to ground elevation and tower height, along with ERP (effective radiated power) and technical stuff. The info plate on the entrance gate can provide a wealth of info too. (blurred out in this video)
Former owner of a small telecom site here. Most likely, some of the transmitters are still operating, but it was surprising to see so many things 'abandoned in place'. Good engineering practice normally requires non-operating antennas to be removed. There is some security on-site: the black devices on short poles are infrared intrusion detectors of fairly recent manufacture. Unknown if they're operating (you'd need an infrared sensitive camera to see the IR emitters in them).
Wow! Thanks for watching pixoariz! Funny as the camcorder I was using also has IR capabilities but did not think to check for that in the daylight. :-) I do think that tall tower is operating. It does seem at one point this was a daily operation for people to come to work??? During the old Telecom days? Cheers :-)
@@urbexindigo5164 Yup, with many night vision camcorders there's an IR filter that will swing into place during normal shooting mode, which helps the color balance. I watched the vid again, and noticed that weeds may have blocked some of the intrusion detectors, which operate point-to-point in this type. So, I'd guess that they were 'off'.
The clouds and stormy sky really set the mood
It was a really cool adventure up there William, thanks for watching :-)
I agree with most of the comments...it looks to me like a former government monitoring site (why else would there be an incinerator?) that was abandoned and sold to private interests because of its location. Looks like a lot of repeater antennae there. The new owners probably removed or abandoned most of the old equipment and installed their necessary equipment in smaller "bunkers" which are locked. Those sensors are a cause for concern for any trespassers, but most of the time they just signal an alert and / or take pictures.
In my (US) community, we had an old well with a scary-looking stone bunkhouse that I think was used to access water delivery equipment. We called it the "Witches' Well" (search RUclips). They had motion-activated cameras surrounding the barbed-wire fence that delivered a recorded warning message over loudspeakers whenever someone got too close.
Great comments The Magus :-) yes definitely agree this used to be a government facility, I am glad I did not trigger any loud speakers here! lol I will look up the Witches Well, thanks for watching :-)
The equipment is I believe, a signal translator system, boosts a weak signal and re-broadcasts it v h f, prior to the digital satellite transfer systems common now. Think of an old Cathode ray t v compared to a new flat screen model. The Best new systems will fit in a computer mainframe the size of a laptop, and generate twice the signal strength . That's how the USA controls Drones from a base 1 hour out of Las Vegas, and is capable of flying them anywhere on the globe.
Awesome! Thanks for that info Gary Robertson, yeah it definitely looked like an older tech had become obsolete and the place no longer needed to be staffed. Reminded me of a military compound or something similar from back in the day. Thanks for watching! :-)
This station stands for the demise of commercial terrestrial comms, very sad as terrestrial radio is still and will always be the most reliable means of communication and it is a bad idea to not keep its infrastructure functional for backup purposes. But still what a cool place! This is a ham's dream, being a ham myself I can tell! Not only as a repeater site but also what a contest station could be built there!
I'm guessing that the bunker is the power substation, it makes sense to put this at a distance to the rf stuff. As against others' guesses there's nothing there that tells me military in the first place, the kind of antennas is pretty typical for commercial sites; dishes and yagis for long range linking to other sites, some vhf/uhf verticals for repeaters or broadcast and some cell stuff. It would theoretically be possible that some of those yagis were pointed towards remote settlements for tv reception but I'm not Australian and can't tell if this was done at all.
The screening on the in- or outside of the windows is definitely for rf shielding, the brick walls will also be lined on the inside. It looks like people were actually working there at the time but keep in mind that the equipment inside the buildings also needs to be shielded from possible interference from the antennas. As there are foundations with no towers on I guess that this could eventually have been a high power short-wave, medium wave or long-wave station at one time. Unfortunately what looks like the backup generators seem to be in pretty rough nick.
It is difficult to tell what could still be running today. Did you see anything inside the main building or were all those rooms empty? If you wanted to be very cheeky you could have entered a code looking for a reaction. If the code locks are out of order pretty certainly nothing is left running inside. I would think that probably only the little hut next to the cell tower is still active.
Hey Martin thanks so much for that detailed response! :-) From what i could see inside through the window was empty rooms and booths with large windows. Indeed the walls looked to be lined with something and i figured it was for protection. The whole place had a type of secret feel to it but I thinks that is just because it is so well hidden and way up high. It looked to be a very organized work place for people once upon a time. I really know nothing about all the towers and generators but what you said makes perfect sense. I did not see any lights flashing or current security systems in place. So mabye it is just a very basic self sufficient phone tower now?
My friend, not everything can be done via satellites, regardless of what Elon tells you
Awesome Site !
What was it ?
At first glance it looked to me to be a Telecom (telephone/data company's) remote relay site- but then there are those infrared perimeter security detectors... the video camera with a screen wiper ! ... the coded access gates..... This was much much more than any commercial telephone relay site !
This was once a staff'd facility... the offices, tech rooms- the water cisterns and large parking lots (my guess is that bunker--like structure for sewage handling)-- all things that speak to what went on there-- and they must have been quite important to have personnel at the station directly operating the equipment ....
I don't know anything about the Australian military, but military is what it appears to me.
The towers themselves support quite a number of point-to-point microwave dishes.... the same sort of stuff used in telecom communications- the type used at common relay sites. But there are those 400 Mhz beams and UHF omni antenna that says direct communications, or remote base stations--- the plot just thicken'd ..... :)
Whatever it was, its looks like its mission has passed. If you went inside that main building my guess is you'd find it cleaned out. The missing feeds on some of those dishes says there is nothing in there active anymore, save maybe a UHF repeater or two.
The overall site appears to be still in use, however-- that second smaller tower has 900/1300 Mhz slot antennas on it-- cellular telephone company stuff-- so it has probably been leased to a 'phone company.... the military warning signs now replaced with that "Private Property' ones.
But these are just my conjectures.... :)
I love old installations like this !... thanks for posting the video.....:)
Hey ana ixtar thanks for watching and your interest on this one and you are correct as I did some research and it is used for telecommunications still so it would have been a long time as you say since staff were on site as this facility was distinctly used for something other than that and I would say military also. I also found out that it is not good to be that close to those telecommunication towers as the EMF levels are off the charts hahaha. peering through the windows there sort of seemed to be a very well protected lining on the walls. Maybe for that very reason.
I'm guessing telephony or defense based on my U.S. knowledge, though there appear to be two cut-to-signal VHF -- not sure what those are all about. I'm not seeing any traditional TV, FM or AM broadcast, but I know the cellular stick is active. Urbex I don't believe you were at-peril, since the bulk of that site is decommissioned. If you tour a similar site, you of course want to stay away from the conductors, and above all the combiner shack. Usually those are well-fenced and locked, but trust me, RF is a different animal.. Excellent find.
Thank you for your analysis doctor. whoever you are
Its an old Telstra Facility, long replaced by Optic Fibre, but even when in use, other users could hire space in the complex, or build there own buildings onsite under a long term lease arrangement.......This site would have likely have had the Local TV channels broadcast from there as well (Translators), and I would be very surprised if there weren't some local users still using the site ie , Police and Emergency services radio's.......A lot of these sites have fallen into disrepair because the big Telstra Maintenance budgets are now gone.....there are hundreds of these sites right across Australia, mostly only supporting local two way radio systems now......and may only get visited if a system breaks down, hence they look deserted. When Telstra were in full swing using them, they were often staffed 24 hours a day on major radio relay routes.
Wow! That makes so much sense and I was genuinely hoping someone would have some knowledge on it`s possible past. I got the feeling at some point it was a daily work place in its past and the old school security cameras suggested high importance as you would expect. The trail up too it is over grown but a service ute could still easily access it if required. They just don`t need much maintenance I guess. Thanks so much for the comments and support Harb`s Electronic Lab :-)
Nice explanation Harb....:)
I am not familiar at all with Australia's microwave past... and when I saw those security devices my first thought was Military. In the US, back in the late '40's early 50's there where many such relay sites scatter'd across the unpopulated western regions- these buildings are now virtually all gone. I did have an opportunity to visit a few still in existence in central Kansas, - long since inactivated- but closed up and industrially seal'd- they were absolutely complete inside like the crew was just stepped out for a quick lunch.
Today the remaining serve as limited, leased V/UHF repeater sites and nesting places for crows.... all the old valve equipment is gone :)
What always amazed me about these installations was they were *staffed.* Out in the middle of nowhere- solid brick buildings of late Art Deco design: bathrooms with showers, a kitchens, offices, and huge racks of microwave transmitters-receivers, telephone switch boards-- and of course the 100 meter tall towers festoon'd with cornucopia horns. In the US these sites, though commercial telecom, were also part of the military defense communications systems- and they where constructed "hardened' against nuclear threats.... those towers especially--- left alone they look like they could endure eons... :)
The buildings themselves had coal fired furnaces for heating, elaborate water systems, trees and outdoor picnic areas, paved sidewalks and parking lots... Try as the Telco's did to make these places attractive, I can only imagine what it must have been like to have staff'd them-- out in the Great Nothing-- during a raging blizzard. Since they were microwave relays, they sat on the highest hills in the bleakest, windy-ist places.....
I have visit'd the White Alice sites in the Alaskan bush- only those relay sites (to me) looked lonelier ...... :)
I know exactly where this site is. It IS an ex Telstra site, but it wasn't used for broadcast TV. Funnily enough, I never knew it was abandoned until now! :D
How can you tell ?
Harb's Elecronics Lab Tell what? That it wasn't used for TV? Way back when I was a lad, I knew people in the technical departments of ABC2, NWS9 & SAS10. They said back then that the signals were relayed 'directly' to the Mt Lofty transmitter towers via microwave link. This site is not at Mt Lofty. Though, certain programme materials may have been relayed interstate via this facility.
Very nice and informative. Thank you
Not abandoned. Sites like this used to be manned, but due to modernisation no longer need to be.
It’ll still be live, all the metal alone would be worth too much to just abandon. It’s just no one needs to be there anymore.
Yep I think your right mate. Cheers for watching :-)
kind of reminds me of the radio Station in the 1960s TV series. "The Outer-Limits" the one with the Galaxy Being . . .
and all that Rack equipment in the outbuilding there! Wow, pretty Old school but totally cool tho! :)
I recognized a power supply, but the camera did not linger long enough for me to make out the rest. . .
Hey Dusterdude238 thanks for watching. Yeah my camera work can be too quick sometimes particularly if I`m looking in a different spot than the camera. lol. :-) This place is around that age I think but has a functioning mobile tower still. Still very secluded and abandoned though :-)
I did'nt mean to sound like I was criticizing your camera work really, I could have just paused the vid to see the rest. . . Mea Culpa Mea Culpa. . .
I seriously doubt this site is fully abandoned. Things may be a bit different in Australia from here in the states but no one would walk away from this much expensive equipment. Very poorly maintained maybe. What a shame and waste if it is abandoned
Everyone needs to remember that during the Cold War and also the Apollo missions Telstra had many of these types of facilities for relaying space mission information and clandestine spy agency communications. Nothing abandoned here just no longer needs to be manned.
Just had to come back & hear the door slam shut again. Can't believe how the time has gone by..
Glad we've gotten to be friends.
If ever winning the lotto would luv to go to Australia & we could meet in person. Maybe M5 (Mike)as well...would be a blast !
I've seen those same type towers in Russia where they had the big melt down, there's a bunch of them there.
Interesting place to explore. I know nothing about telecommunications but I think a wander through there would be fascinating. Almost disgraced myself when that door slammed 😂
Hey, a simple search on the acma database will show you what is still in use there, also shows recently decommissioned sites
on the map it shows two disused sites there, two towers are not in use
and another two are in use
The two in use are, Airservices Radar, and the Telstra Tower (Though a lot on the telstra tower is obviously disused)
I can't find how to private msg you, you may have it off, if you send me a private message i will send you a link to the sites map if you wish :)
Hold a flourescent light tube up near or infront of any of those antennas to see if any of them are still being used...if its receive it wont work ...but do it at night ..in daylight it might not be bright enough to see if its a lower transmitter
Good call Robert, I think the very tall tower is active with mobile service perhaps. his place I guess shut down when things all became automated. thanks for watching :-)
Hi Robert, Orlando's family here.
The Mt Bonython Radio Communications Terminal (as I knew it) now ceases to exist - progress!
I was a bit surprised that it had completely closed down as (in my time) it also serviced a number of small comms links to places like Kangaroo Island, York Peninsula + other - the Yagi antennas (the ones that look like fancy TV antenna) point in the direction of those serviced areas.
I worked mainly on the broadband systems (those employing parabolic “dish” antennas).
Back then, Mt Bonython was the Sth Aust Radio Comms Terminal for all broadband routs in/out of the state.
1. E-W route to Perth (via Eucla)
2. S-E route to Melbourne (via Bordertown)
3. N-E route to Melbourne/Sydney (via Berri, SA & Mildura, Vic)
I assume that the Mt Bonython terminal has been relocated to another site - probably atop the Telecom building in Waymouth Street?
Less bushfire hazard with a city location.
Cheers!
@@ellemieglich5091 very interesting!. I worked briefly in broadcast radio. still interested in it.. I'm an Amateur radio op n3vxt. I've always wanted to visit one of these sites. possibly a bunker type from the cold war. would be great to purchase a site and turn it into some personal amateur radio site or club..
That place is pretty cool,awesome view I thought you might have needed a clean pair of undies after that gate slammed shut behind you,good explore mate cheers.
Haha yes and the fact it slammed only once I got in there was freaky! :-) Thanks for the support Roysta D :-0
Looks like an old tower farm for a communications company.
I'm sorry but your reaction to the scare made me literally laugh out loud. It scared the shit out of me too.
Hahaha well Heather it was indeed like a freakin horror movie! lol. What were the chances a gust of wind would happen then lol cheers for watching :-)
I would be a kid in a candy store. I would have a field day being able to sell all of that and keep some for my ham radio shack. Those roll of helix is the same I had at a radio station worked at long ago.
I know I would have to travel to the bush country but would keep me busy.
Hi Robert :-) Glad you understand what all those things were as I did not really at the time haha. An interesting trek up there and explore for sure :-)
Beautiful location. Would love to buy it and turn it into my home and wood workshop
Nice, although I thought and hoped you'd climb up the tower
😁 not even close to trying haha 😁👍
It is a repeater station it has nothing to do with mobile phones tower......
Pete ... you missed the small cell tower in the back of the lot. It was at the end of that row of small buildings he was exploring and probably 100 feet from the main towers. Obviously it's all secondary to the main purpose of the site and is self contained in it's own corner.
Someone or some company spent big money on that installation back in the day ... What a waste , but hey i Nice find i enjoyed this explore very much thank you ! :D
Hey Stefan it is a shame I could not find an open door or something to show you inside. But I enjoyed this explore too, lots to look at still. Cheers for watching :-)
Towers retro fitted with microwave links,the building asbestos heaven ,the EMF made the hairs on my arms stand up,visit these retro fitted towers minimum time on ground before a go around :)4:40 4G repeaters in the retro fit,these towers are active,not a good idea to climb them lol
Hi SIl :-) Thanks for watching and that info and it makes sense. I could definitely tell there was active signals and afterwards I felt a mild headache which may be from the EMF of course. Strange feeling way up there. No one and nothing around......5G is going to fry us! haha :-)
They have towers pooping up all over the U.S. but most of their 'stuff' is at the top of the towers, more compact. Scarey stuff cause they aren't phone towers.
The towers seem to be placed where the most folks can be explosed, people think they must be phone towers but do you need close to ten in ONE TOWN ALONE?!
Placed by hospitals, schools, malls, eatery places & homes.
This guy did experiments & measured the radiation coming off one tower where homes are & 3 or 4 blocks away the radiation on his meter couldn't be measured because it went all the way to the right (it was off the charts) & stayed there & the machine buzzer sound went off. It still did the same thing 6 & 7 blocks away.
Who made/put them there the man couldn't find out. I don't know what happened to the guy but he mentioned why he was interested in them because of the very high rate of cancers reported in the town. Hello? What's up with that? And I can't find that guy making videos any more. I don't know if he quit making videos or just vanished.
Just another way to make humans sick.......When the system is using 5G we will all be screwed. 5G is weapon scale used in war.
Urbex Indigo. And we think humans are the 'smartest' things on the planet. Animals get into conflicts they don't stock pile bombs that can distory the world. Oh well.
When you made the video where there were lots of bees, I found out something. Vulture Bees= they eat rotten flesh, store it in a special pouch then go to the hive & regurgitated it & it's processed into edible honeylike mataterial. They were found about 200 years ago. Learn something new every day. Happy trails ! ☺
When that door slammed shut I don't know about you but I was waiting for the foot steps & somebody walking round corner.. 😮
i would like to discover any abandoned radio station, but with everything in perfect conditions, jejeje
Well then mate you should go to this place...........:-)
At--5:37-- I jumped! What if that door had locked?!! OMG
Hahaha yes as soon as i walked in that door shuts! The only time i heard it bang while i was there!
Urbex Indigo. They have a cool 'security' team. Hee hee. Ghosts? Hope you didn't get wet, looks like a storm was coming.
That door slamming shut woke me up.😴😴😴BANG!!😨💩😉
Nice view is it always that windy?
Epic place if only you could have got inside!
Before fibre optics took over, most of the long distance telephone service along with television distribution from the networks to stations was done with microwave equipment which is now obsolete. For example fibre is now so cheap than most of the PBS stations in the northeast are operated from one control center in Syracuse.
And my God at the end of the video you show how deep in the woods you are do you realize how much money that is did build that there that's a very special build at all cost double and triple labor to do that
Hey James! :-) Thanks for watching I agree its initial use would have been military or government to relay radio signals and a look out. Definitely a fair way in the bush especially when it would have been built. Pity there was no open door that I could find anyway. :-) Cheers for watching
How come they abandoned so much hardware? There are VHF antennas, parabolic dipoles and feed horns. God! What were they thinking? Not to forget, horns and dipoles are still wired into the buildings, means, they can be reactivated with some effort, in case racks inside are not empty
what a great explore, tyvm
Unfortunately no open doors or windows to get a look inside Wendy, still a cool adventure for me though! :-)
I never allowed locks to keep me out when urban exploring...rookie lol. Especially a place like that. My curiosity would get the best of me. Especially when posting on RUclips
Thanks for watching Louis :-) I wish it was not locked up lol
Urbex Indigo Me too! Looks amazing to explore!
That is an incinerator to burn classified stuff. No paper shredders. 6:49
The elephant in the room here, it seems to me, is the sign on the gate that you have blurred out!!!! Interesting that at the bottom left, where it is NOT blurred, it appears to say "NSA Site Number.....".
Why did you blur out the sign????
I think you are starting to realize exactly why some things are blurred and kept disclosed because very inquisitive people like yourself have the potential to research and leave details in these comment that lead to idiots finding these places and smashing them. Cheers for watching MissAstorDancer. There is a code of Urban Exploring
@@urbexindigo5164 Fair enough!
I wouldn't be messing around anyplace with a NSA sign on the gate. Enjoyed the video though.
@@urbexindigo5164 holy crap, you were in content control! There's no way that's fully abandoned.
The minimum wage, unnamed security guy is probably playing video games on a computer somewhere and even if something were to happen on his shift his lazy field supervisor probably tells him to write down "conditions normal" on his hourly log...sadly i speak from past experiences! But then again i was anticipating either The Cable Guy or Wolfman Jack to pop out of nowhere and start on one of their rants. As a long time low paid security guard working in similar lousy conditions, i can only say this video is too real for me!
Haha Ricky I enjoyed just reading your commnets! :-) If it wasn`t for the long trek up the over grown track I would have prob expected to bump in to some sort of security and if I was assigned to be up there computers games or netflix would be a go to I think! haha. :-)
the little black things spread around the site on poles (1:39) are motion sensors, obviously destroyed but still interesting they had those
I would have needed clean undies after that door slammed! Have you ever heard or seen anything that was spooky? Like paranormal spooky? I have never seen anything but while visiting supposedly haunted locations have heard some weird stuff!
Hey Bayla yes that door was freaky! There have sure been some spooky houses and seeing you have mentioned Paranormal Spooky I will leave a link below to my other channel which is exactly that. :-)
ruclips.net/channel/UCQjIGCYi-49a3jnJMYMWEUw
Thank you! My friends and I love that kind of stuff! Heading to Nevada in a couple weeks and trying to stay at haunted hotels. Also we will be traveling the Extraterrestrial Highway! So much fun!!
loved this one. SPOOKY!
Hey Cindy, yes pretty eerie up there all alone, shame there was no way inside the main building! Cheers for watching :-)
wow, very interesting explore tyvm
Telstra had old transmission tower site Wittenoom gorge mines and townsite and on dme hill transmission tower site karijini national Park
Looks like the old 3ha tower just out side of hamilton
This one is over near Adelaide mate :-)
looks mainly like a comm site...not a broadcast radio station
Are these for sale? How can I obtain abandoned infastrcture does anyone know? The government owns I believe 60 to 70 percent more property than the entire population and corporations combined and have unlimited budgets to use immediate domain to steal more and it's almost impossible to fight them in a system that is designed to side with them and on top of that they have unlimited recourses to go after anyone who fights back and to go against you in court they need to start selling what they aren't using and don't need! There should be a different option besides them forcing you to sell at low prices or them rarely not getting imminent domain. The people who own the property should be the only ones who should be able to vote on anex or make you sell for a low price there should also be an option to lease the entity the property for a set time not some 90 year BS it should be determined be the people who own the property! Like when these cities take land for reservoirs instead the rural people should be able to sell them the water to the government! Does anyone agree? With me?
@5:31.....did you almost s*** your pants?🤣
На мен ми прилича на станция за измерване на карбонния диоксид във въздуха, отколкото на антени за разпръскване на "сигнал". Истинския сигнал да не е на принципа transmition by wire?
East coast England. Has similar. Remains of cold war LISTNING. Station. As it looks like it gets its fair amount of rain. Also see relay station set ups. Satellites got the better of this system. Cheaper.
Don´t know but maybe after 1991 the Cold War funding stopped and it was moved elsewhere.I guess there would be military use as well as commercial use.
Where is this?
I wood like to have all of that
Would have been great to be able get inside for a look. :-)
Holy fuck!
Andrew microwave antennas.
For one that is a government facility it reeks of it and to that's an awful lot of copper there
Hey James! :-) Thanks for watching I agree its initial use would have been military or government to relay radio signals and a look out. Definitely a fair way in the bush especially when it would have been built. Pity there was no open door that I could find anyway. :-) Cheers for watching
Hahaha!...there's no holy thing there Urbex..lots of creepy things only,,,some making fun of you.. I can hear the whistling sound..anyway your a brave guy..TYVM...lol....
Haha hey Ferlinda I just explored an old shack yesterday and the door that leads inside slammed shut right in front of me as if to say "Your not welcome" :-) It was quite amazing as there were no real gusts of wind prior to it.
dont hold cam still long enough to see things. i hate vids like that.
Agreed, it is a shit video :-)
Maybe a Test Center for 5G..thats coming soon.
Language....🤣🤣🤣