Classic Bullseye - The US Navy's Ears On The World ruclips.net/video/zVKy6g0YQdU/видео.html Elephant Cage - The USA's Worldwide Listening Ear ruclips.net/video/8CCc6ohJkF0/видео.html Krug - The Secret Soviet Listening Network ruclips.net/video/tn0L1Bfx700/видео.html
@@innywymiar2887 the A12 was a proposed variant of the SR71 blackbird for the US Air force that would be an air to air interceptor, but they never made it, they only made the SR71 which didn't carry any weapons.....so the A12 never existed the plane he was referring to is the SR71 which was operated by the CIA and not by the Airforce.....
@@innywymiar2887 and btw....my sister in-law was born raised and lived in Poland her whole life, she immigrated a few years before marrying my brother. She is amazingly bright and is an amazing person......far better of a person than my brother......lol
I collected stamps in the late 70s and 80s with the help of my father who had many friends in the Soviet Union and China. As we lived close to both the CIA and DC in a neighborhood of government employees, contractors, scientists and real effing spies all I can say is the soundtrack here just opened a floodgate of memories and I thank you and the composer for that.
You are by far my favourite amateur radio RUclips channel, and these series are great mate! The amount of research, the presentation, the soundtrack, brilliant!
Couple of tiny details - Narva site was actually situated in USSR, not in Estonia, it's called Narva because thats the closest city but the site was actually in USSR. Also the location of the Tallinn FIX24 station is a bit off. It was actually situated couple of hundred meters to the east but the land has been repuropsed so nothing can be seen there either. Although I have some historic satellite imagery where it can be seen clearly if you might be interested for some reason :) I vaguely remember the site from my childhood as well but at least the atennas were taken down before I started visiting / exploring these kinds of places so somewhere in the early-mid 90s probably.
@@redaerf2b414 yea I was like huh? Pretty sure Estonia was a Soviet socialist republic in the 20th century but I get what he meant. It was in Russia rather than Estonia.
I’ve always wondered what the ring next to the duga radar site was. Thanks for showing all this, it’s really amazing how determined they were to want to listen to the US.
Amazing history here, Lewis! This was very interesting and made me think about how they put all that together and had it all networked and operating back in those days gone by. Very cool stuff, man. Please keep it up! 😎
@@RingwayManchester If i remember back then.. well like 10 years ago or more. the site Englishrussia did have quite a lot of mysterious antennas and other places. Some of them was covered like a very tall tree or so. I think that it is possible to find more and more. The "funny" thing about this is all those sites you have here is like just a tiny bit of all sites there are or was.
I hail from Newfoundland and while not a radio enthusiast I love looking around for old sites used in the early and late cold war. There were several sites around this province mainly for the Pinetree line. Most have left a concrete pads and scars in the landscape though some have a few derelict structures. I think The Canadian Forces still use a bullseye style radar near Gander. Keep up the good work!!
I'm new to the channel and I love these videos mate, especially the cold war stuff. Although I have to admit I know zilch about the radios so much of the stuff goes over my head. I'm learning though so thanks.
Thank you once again for a really well researched and detailed video. I love learning something new every time one of your videos drops. Long may it continue x
I don't think the SR-71 ever flew over the Soviet Union. After Gary Powers had been shot down, the US didn't want to risk another pilot coming down in the USSR. I believe the SR-71 flights flew outside of Soviet airspace. My quick attempt to find a source for this information failed but I remember hearing this more than once. Thanks for another interesting video.
@@RingwayManchester Which is why I'm subscribed to this channel. I think Curious Droid has an episode about the SR-71. I think that's where I learned (to my suprise) the SR-71 didn't overfly the Soviet Union. Thanks again for the interesting video. These "Elephant Cage" episodes have be really interesting to me.
This was an awesome video I've seen these used in other videos when talking about number stations but didn't know this about them thank you. Your number station videos are cool too
Might be interesting to see/understand how the control equipment in the buildings worked how the data that was collected was formatted into something useable. I formerly worked in an over-the-horizon site in Maine in the control center that collated all the transmit and receive data and I wonder if these facilities were much different. 👍
The Murmansk (Kildinstroy) Thick 8 at 07:31 seems to be military installation. This is way up north and outside of most television satellites that service russia with a television signal. I am not sure, but the dish seems to be pointed in the direction of around 40E to 45E. I might be wrong, so there's always that option.
I didn't see any of the vertical cages antennas at the krug site of the Chernobyl village number 2, all the antennas were cut and left to the ground, not a single antenna is intact. The building at the center of the vertical array is flooded with almost 1m of permanent water. Hard place to visit, we stay around the DUGA-1 antennas instead.
Great insight, have you got them all on a map, would be interesting to see their locations all on one picture. You can get a feel for what they were looking at (direction)
I wonder if there are any underground tunnels or anything of the sort! Great video, as I have never really heard about these before. Except for the huge wall antenna in Chernobyl. I think I need to spend some time, just watching old video's on your channel.
Possibly! There’s not masses of information to explain it in layman’s terms. I read up on the real technical side and I think a video would be boring 😂
OK, I'm not a radio head but I have been fascinated by bunkers and the control systems therein since I was a child. It's my catnip. And there is something about radio tech that is fascinating. It's so low level yet so far reaching and influential yet also by nature so accessible. I have noticed antenna design also since I was a kid. Watching your videos recently I've seen a lot of what I would call "birdcage" antennas. I think it would be neat if you could do a vid on antenna shape (whip, fishbone, birdcage, slab, ring, clothesline, chode etc..) and their purposes. I know size is related to wavelength but the reasons for the shapes is way interesting. Rock on man!
Such great history, i grew up with loads of cold war history in my part of the states, including NIKE missle bases and their targeting arrays, some are gone and prurposed some have been updated and still in use today. thanls for your detective work and history lessons!
05:09. What an image. Gossebumps. Also, I usually bridle at background music in RUclips videos and want to scream…but not on your channel. In this episode in particular the marriage of the music and the imagery and the commentary is absolutely masterful.
For those unfamiliar, those cage structures are high bandwidth dipoles. The thicker the wire of the dipole, the higher the bandwidth. The cage structure is an abstracted very thick wire. The same idea can be observed in the Duga radiators.
I’m very curious about those birdcage antennas. I’d thought they were only used on the Duga array, but clearly they saw service in other installations.
Just stumbled across your channel love the content, especially on Cold War ear SIGINT. Any chance you could do a video on 33 Thomas Street, New York, the so called “Windowless Skyscarper”. Whilst it’s owned by AT&T, it’s uses are up for conjecture and the look of the building alone warrants some interest! Cheers, Mike
Hi, have you heard about BARS/leopard military communication system? Near my hometown was one of the nodes, or whatever it's called. I remember how i explored those abandoned buildings as a kid. At that time it felt like huge complex, but my child memories may be little bit exagerated 😅 Sadly for some reason city decided to demolish most of the ruined buildings. Only one building is left now. If I remember correctly it was unit number 203, it would be great to hear something about technical details of that.
In that time the technology defending the country was at least 20+ years forward compared to what civilians had. I appreciate the hard work of the personnel there 24/7 even on public holidays.
@@davedoe6445 Thank you for the great link. This source seems reliable regarding technology and some facts. But always be aware that some of the founders have a direct wire to a company making great events und D1vos.
I'm surprised of the close proximity of the Chernobyl Thick 8 close to the Duga, surely the Duga would have overloaded the receiving site to make it useless? Or it imples the Duga only transmitted at certain times and the receiver could work outside those times.
At 05:04 {and other times} in this video: FWIW, I think I have previously seen online images or videos of 'things like that'.. Until now I had no idea what they were.
@RingwayManchester >>> I think you "❤️'d" my comment above. (1) Thanks. (2) I edited the comment after you did so, and that deleted your ❤️. I realized quite some time back if a YT channel marks a comment that way and you subsequently edit the comment, the ❤️ disappears. {You do not have to remark it, I just wanted to mention that for anyone that did not know already.}
Can you visualize the HAM Shack you could build on one of these sites? I've wanted to acquire one of the old DoD radio sites here in the US for just that purpose. Sadly, I need to live somewhere with actual jobs, and all of the sites up for sale are too remote. Also, I am really curious what that plowed track around the perimeter of the Simferopol Fir-24 site @ 9:00 is all about.
scavengers will aways remove metals, no matter the level of radiation... just look at the guttered state of the whole exclusion zone...the metal left needs a plamsa cutter or acetylene torch to remove
Lat, lon in the still images or, actually more preferable, lat, lon figures in the show notes that could be copied and pasted would be nice for Google Earth users. As an example, one of the sites I'd like to explore more is at 7:48. Your viewers might then be able to detect come interesting features at these sites that can be mentioned here in the comments.
With that qty of antenna arrays it would be not easy to hide from KGB, Stasi, here I make a link with the number stations. The same for aircraft, ships and so on. Now the Internet helps to avoid those antennas "hiding" it inside a datacenter
Classic Bullseye - The US Navy's Ears On The World
ruclips.net/video/zVKy6g0YQdU/видео.html
Elephant Cage - The USA's Worldwide Listening Ear
ruclips.net/video/8CCc6ohJkF0/видео.html
Krug - The Secret Soviet Listening Network
ruclips.net/video/tn0L1Bfx700/видео.html
Do you have more data about FIX 24 in Obory, Poland?
The A12 never entered service, it was an air to air interceptor version of the SR71, the CIA used SR71's no A12's....
@@scottbattaglia8595 Do you have coordinates? I live in Poland and toy like to visit this place.
@@innywymiar2887 the A12 was a proposed variant of the SR71 blackbird for the US Air force that would be an air to air interceptor, but they never made it, they only made the SR71 which didn't carry any weapons.....so the A12 never existed the plane he was referring to is the SR71 which was operated by the CIA and not by the Airforce.....
@@innywymiar2887 and btw....my sister in-law was born raised and lived in Poland her whole life, she immigrated a few years before marrying my brother. She is amazingly bright and is an amazing person......far better of a person than my brother......lol
Don't think the hard work you have put into these isn't appreciated. Important history has been documented that will be useful in the future.
You have no idea how much comments like this mean to me! Cheers
I totally concur with this! It has been a very interesting and enjoyable ride thru these videos lately!!
Don't know why he would think he isn't appreciated. Love the content!
yes hope he archives it to other sites you can't be to careful these days
I wonder how much of YOUR research and documentation is now being poured over by Secret Intelligence Services- I bet they are...
I collected stamps in the late 70s and 80s with the help of my father who had many friends in the Soviet Union and China. As we lived close to both the CIA and DC in a neighborhood of government employees, contractors, scientists and real effing spies all I can say is the soundtrack here just opened a floodgate of memories and I thank you and the composer for that.
I also like the soundtrack very much.
@S Matthewson It has that shortwave radio beat too. I had a JVC "boombox" with shortwave bands which was great on clear nights.
I love the soundtrack. Does it have a name?
@@Lobonova Check the description
You are by far my favourite amateur radio RUclips channel, and these series are great mate! The amount of research, the presentation, the soundtrack, brilliant!
I always enjoy your videos but this most recent series is especially interesting. I had no idea there were so many of these arrays around the world!
Thank you so so much! you're too kind!
Couple of tiny details - Narva site was actually situated in USSR, not in Estonia, it's called Narva because thats the closest city but the site was actually in USSR. Also the location of the Tallinn FIX24 station is a bit off. It was actually situated couple of hundred meters to the east but the land has been repuropsed so nothing can be seen there either. Although I have some historic satellite imagery where it can be seen clearly if you might be interested for some reason :) I vaguely remember the site from my childhood as well but at least the atennas were taken down before I started visiting / exploring these kinds of places so somewhere in the early-mid 90s probably.
>Narva site was actually situated in USSR, not in Estonia
Estonian SSR was part of USSR.
@@redaerf2b414 yes, but still the site was not in Estonia. It was across the border.
@@redaerf2b414 yea I was like huh? Pretty sure Estonia was a Soviet socialist republic in the 20th century but I get what he meant. It was in Russia rather than Estonia.
@@deeiks12 definetly interested in seeing these satellite images
I’ve always wondered what the ring next to the duga radar site was. Thanks for showing all this, it’s really amazing how determined they were to want to listen to the US.
Amazing history here, Lewis! This was very interesting and made me think about how they put all that together and had it all networked and operating back in those days gone by. Very cool stuff, man. Please keep it up! 😎
Thanks!
@@RingwayManchester 😎
I love all the spying and secret and number stations video you make. Thank you 👍
This is an absolutely wonderful series, Lewis! I've never seen anything remotely like it. Brilliant research, cheers!
Didn't realise there were so many of these sites about, amazing research digging them all up!
I’m not finished yet :)
@@RingwayManchester :)
@@RingwayManchester If i remember back then.. well like 10 years ago or more. the site Englishrussia did have quite a lot of mysterious antennas and other places. Some of them was covered like a very tall tree or so. I think that it is possible to find more and more. The "funny" thing about this is all those sites you have here is like just a tiny bit of all sites there are or was.
I’ve really enjoyed this series - thanks! I had no idea these arrays existed.
Glad you like them!
I hail from Newfoundland and while not a radio enthusiast I love looking around for old sites used in the early and late cold war. There were several sites around this province mainly for the Pinetree line. Most have left a concrete pads and scars in the landscape though some have a few derelict structures. I think The Canadian Forces still use a bullseye style radar near Gander. Keep up the good work!!
loving this series about these amazing antennas - thanks so much for these brilliant videos, absolutely great viewing.
Thanks!
I love the rate of videos coming out. Thanks for your effort and work!
I'm new to the channel and I love these videos mate, especially the cold war stuff. Although I have to admit I know zilch about the radios so much of the stuff goes over my head. I'm learning though so thanks.
Absolutely fascinating! I REALLY ENJOYED AND APPRECIATED THIS. Thank you so very much for taking the time to video and upload. It's truly amazing
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks!
Excellent Video-Summery..Thank You..! Much Appreciated 😀👍
Thank you once again for a really well researched and detailed video. I love learning something new every time one of your videos drops. Long may it continue x
A trip down memory lane. Excellent series!
Thanks for doing these Lewis. I've been enjoying them.
Excellent as usual. Also I dig your ambient incidental synthesiser stylings. Many thanks.
I don't think the SR-71 ever flew over the Soviet Union. After Gary Powers had been shot down, the US didn't want to risk another pilot coming down in the USSR. I believe the SR-71 flights flew outside of Soviet airspace. My quick attempt to find a source for this information failed but I remember hearing this more than once.
Thanks for another interesting video.
Thanks Duane! We’re all here to learn :)
@@RingwayManchester Which is why I'm subscribed to this channel.
I think Curious Droid has an episode about the SR-71. I think that's where I learned (to my suprise) the SR-71 didn't overfly the Soviet Union.
Thanks again for the interesting video. These "Elephant Cage" episodes have be really interesting to me.
I could be wrong. But wasn't the SR-71 developed in response to the captured pilot? Also have any SR-71 missions been declassified?
I had no idea so many of them existed. A lot of research went to locating all of them.
Thanks!
It is amazing what you have uncovered. Great job!
Thank you very much!
Beautiful footage and awesome info, thanks Lewis. Great job!
Thanks a ton!
you just stepped up +100% with your presentation, keep going!
This was an awesome video I've seen these used in other videos when talking about number stations but didn't know this about them thank you. Your number station videos are cool too
Great soundtrack! Video was great too. I liked this format.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks!
Amazing Series! Thanks you for sharing!
Might be interesting to see/understand how the control equipment in the buildings worked how the data that was collected was formatted into something useable. I formerly worked in an over-the-horizon site in Maine in the control center that collated all the transmit and receive data and I wonder if these facilities were much different. 👍
Video on Tuesday with a bit more info on this 👍🏻
Was it for the army or coastguard?
Excellent video! Saw that you uploaded earlier but wasn’t able to watch it until now, keep up the great work man!! Cheers from Canada
Thanks!
The Murmansk (Kildinstroy) Thick 8 at 07:31 seems to be military installation. This is way up north and outside of most television satellites that service russia with a television signal. I am not sure, but the dish seems to be pointed in the direction of around 40E to 45E. I might be wrong, so there's always that option.
Thanks!
Wicked Lewis nice one👍
Thanks!
A breathtaking video with so much detail! Thanks!
Thanks!
Your research is remarkable!!
I didn't see any of the vertical cages antennas at the krug site of the Chernobyl village number 2, all the antennas were cut and left to the ground, not a single antenna is intact. The building at the center of the vertical array is flooded with almost 1m of permanent water. Hard place to visit, we stay around the DUGA-1 antennas instead.
Great insight, have you got them all on a map, would be interesting to see their locations all on one picture. You can get a feel for what they were looking at (direction)
I wonder if there are any underground tunnels or anything of the sort! Great video, as I have never really heard about these before. Except for the huge wall antenna in Chernobyl. I think I need to spend some time, just watching old video's on your channel.
This channel is truly a gem.
Thanks!
Another good video. Liked the choice of music, it works well.
It's a tangled web we weave.
Great work on this series
I love your documentarys !!!
Love yer enthusiasm and work, mate xo
Much appreciated!
Really enjoying these videos, keep ‘em coming 👍🏻
This is interesting bro thanks for the hard work!!!
Love this series. do you think you could do a video on a little bit more of a mechanics about how these CDAAs work?
Possibly! There’s not masses of information to explain it in layman’s terms. I read up on the real technical side and I think a video would be boring 😂
@@RingwayManchester Not to the viewers of this channel.....
@@Mike-H_UK totally agree - esp with the excellent presentation style given here, it would be excellent !
Thank's for another great vid's Lewis. The best from LB1NH 🙂
Rich content, nice soundtrack.
Great videos. ❤️📻 Always listening.
Cheers 🇵🇹
Thanks!
Fascinating video!!
another amazing video with brilliant research done
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks!
OK, I'm not a radio head but I have been fascinated by bunkers and the control systems therein since I was a child. It's my catnip. And there is something about radio tech that is fascinating. It's so low level yet so far reaching and influential yet also by nature so accessible. I have noticed antenna design also since I was a kid. Watching your videos recently I've seen a lot of what I would call "birdcage" antennas. I think it would be neat if you could do a vid on antenna shape (whip, fishbone, birdcage, slab, ring, clothesline, chode etc..) and their purposes. I know size is related to wavelength but the reasons for the shapes is way interesting. Rock on man!
I need to do that video! Cheers
Love the info - love the music more!
Such great history, i grew up with loads of cold war history in my part of the states, including NIKE missle bases and their targeting arrays, some are gone and prurposed some have been updated and still in use today. thanls for your detective work and history lessons!
Thanks!
It's amazing how many there were.
The Chernobyl one would make for a fantastic (but ideally rather short) explore.
The trippy Theremin music in the background is the perfect accompaniment to the subject matter.
glad you liked it
I guess the CIA would have loved to have Google Earth in the seventies...
Hey look, its one of those circular arrays you missed in your previous video. (yes, joking!) haha. Thanks again for a great one.
This series is phenomenal!
Thanks!
cant wait for your channel to explode (in popularity)
05:09. What an image. Gossebumps.
Also, I usually bridle at background music in RUclips videos and want to scream…but not on your channel. In this episode in particular the marriage of the music and the imagery and the commentary is absolutely masterful.
Thank you! Yes I try and stay away from music but I like how this worked when I had nothing to say haha
For those unfamiliar, those cage structures are high bandwidth dipoles. The thicker the wire of the dipole, the higher the bandwidth. The cage structure is an abstracted very thick wire. The same idea can be observed in the Duga radiators.
use of redundant sites for solar arrays seems a good idea
Very interesting! Love these vids.
I’m very curious about those birdcage antennas. I’d thought they were only used on the Duga array, but clearly they saw service in other installations.
me too! I must look in to them!
Just stumbled across your channel love the content, especially on Cold War ear SIGINT. Any chance you could do a video on 33 Thomas Street, New York, the so called “Windowless Skyscarper”. Whilst it’s owned by AT&T, it’s uses are up for conjecture and the look of the building alone warrants some interest! Cheers, Mike
I’m pretty sure he’s done a video on this very recently.
mate, many congrats on the great video's. you're doing a blinding job
Wow, thanks!
These are all really interesting. I would be curious to know what has replaced them.
Hi, have you heard about BARS/leopard military communication system? Near my hometown was one of the nodes, or whatever it's called. I remember how i explored those abandoned buildings as a kid. At that time it felt like huge complex, but my child memories may be little bit exagerated 😅 Sadly for some reason city decided to demolish most of the ruined buildings. Only one building is left now. If I remember correctly it was unit number 203, it would be great to hear something about technical details of that.
In that time the technology defending the country was at least 20+ years forward compared to what civilians had.
I appreciate the hard work of the personnel there 24/7 even on public holidays.
I'll look into that!
This system? de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troposphären-Nachrichtensystem_Bars
@@davedoe6445 Thank you for the great link. This source seems reliable regarding technology and some facts. But always be aware that some of the founders have a direct wire to a company making great events und D1vos.
@@davedoe6445 yes, thanks for the link, haven't thought about looking at German Wikipedia 😅
More duga videos if possible.
Anything regarding that system is super interesting.
More to come!
6:58, whats tha song? I am absolutely in love with it.
'Blue Orbit' by Cosmic Dust.
@@Stephen_Lafferty thank you kind stranger
I'm surprised of the close proximity of the Chernobyl Thick 8 close to the Duga, surely the Duga would have overloaded the receiving site to make it useless? Or it imples the Duga only transmitted at certain times and the receiver could work outside those times.
At 05:04 {and other times} in this video: FWIW, I think I have previously seen online images or videos of 'things like that'.. Until now I had no idea what they were.
@RingwayManchester >>> I think you "❤️'d" my comment above.
(1) Thanks.
(2) I edited the comment after you did so, and that deleted your ❤️. I realized quite some time back if a YT channel marks a comment that way and you subsequently edit the comment, the ❤️ disappears.
{You do not have to remark it, I just wanted to mention that for anyone that did not know already.}
10:00 Kinda uncanny to hear the theme song of Quinn's Ideas (a channel about science fiction) in a completely different context. :D
Fascinating, thanks. You should write a book, or even produce something for telly on cold war comms.
Too kind! Thanks!
Can you visualize the HAM Shack you could build on one of these sites? I've wanted to acquire one of the old DoD radio sites here in the US for just that purpose. Sadly, I need to live somewhere with actual jobs, and all of the sites up for sale are too remote.
Also, I am really curious what that plowed track around the perimeter of the Simferopol Fir-24 site @ 9:00 is all about.
In a few videos, you made reference to akrotiri antennas. There seems to be quite a few. Any plans for a series on what’s what?
Can clearly see the circle of Sovetskaya Gavan thick 8 in your picture.
It's a pretty interesting location, better look out for the bloodsuckers nesting underneath it tho
Excellent 👍
Lewis, please make a Spotify station with all your RM music! Truly beautiful! i’ll buy you a coffee tomorrow 😀
Mr Ringway of Manchester. Nice 😎😁👍
Have you done a video about 'Cobra Mist' at Orford Ness ?
Thanks for your very interesting videos.
Not yet!
I like the way that the one that's near Duga uses the same "cage dipoles" that Duga uses... because they had a bunch of them handy??????
2:01 isnt that the place with all the sleeping bloodsuckers in stalker?
4:53 that one shares the same “white cages” as the douga OTH radar as well that’s quite funny 😄
fascinating research
Thanks
Fascinating, what went on in the cold war and how extensive the hardware.
scavengers will aways remove metals, no matter the level of radiation... just look at the guttered state of the whole exclusion zone...the metal left needs a plamsa cutter or acetylene torch to remove
I want to find more about them!
Outstanding.
Thanks!
5:30 Eufurt or Erfurt ? I found more info and photos at a german historical website, like you said it's now a solar energy park. 73 from PA the 3fus.
Lat, lon in the still images or, actually more preferable, lat, lon figures in the show notes that could be copied and pasted would be nice for Google Earth users. As an example, one of the sites I'd like to explore more is at 7:48. Your viewers might then be able to detect come interesting features at these sites that can be mentioned here in the comments.
that was the first time I have ever heard that there was more than one dug site. the woodpecker was the only one I heard of.
Check out my woodpecker video, they're all in there :)
Far out there was a huge number of these built!
With that qty of antenna arrays it would be not easy to hide from KGB, Stasi, here I make a link with the number stations. The same for aircraft, ships and so on. Now the Internet helps to avoid those antennas "hiding" it inside a datacenter
Great history of the coldwar site's you did amazing digging up this information
Very interesting, and educational. What is the modern day equivalent?
Amazing
There is a Krug just down the road from the Duga radar in chernobyl
There is, it’s in this video
gee...i always wonder what the heck if anything did they learn doing all the listening they did...
Any idea about the octagonal structure at the Slovakian site?
No mark sorry