Originally posted by Golf66
That is an antenna array. Like the ones you mentioned elsewhere. If you line up the locations you'll see there is one to "listen" to all of our areas of interest. Asia, Middle East, SE Asia, The South Pacific, Russia etc.

That one probably focuses on Cuba and the Caribbean area as well as some of South America.

They are at locations around the world and are used for radio intercept (SIGINT) and radio direction finding (RDF). They can be directed from various field stations across the world to intercept radio signals for the purpose of collecting intelligence on our enemies. NSA.

The antennas are not classified as they are there for all to see but their capabilities are.

The FRD-10's are pretty much all gone now. I think the Canadians are the only one's to have them now at two of their sites. But i could be wrong.

The one in San Diego is still there but the buildings are abandoned. I helped close it down.

After thinking and doing some reading...not much to find. I think Bowsprit was the project name for the Classic Sail system that the Elint folks used. I know it used a PDP-11. That was the big thing at the time. It seems so "Stone Age" now...lol The software people had their own little office both active duty and NSA civilians worked in it.

This was 20+ years ago, so the memory is a bit hazy on some of the details.

Originally posted by bg_socalif
The FRD-10's are pretty much all gone now. I think the Canadians are the only one's to have them now at two of their sites. But i could be wrong.

The one in San Diego is still there but the buildings are abandoned. I helped close it down.

True it is old tech and most of those missions are now performed by overheads but I am fairly certain they left some of the infrastructure in case we somehow lose all the overheads at once say in a burst or sun spot event. The military is really hip on redundancy. That way they can retrofit them fairly quickly - at least faster than firing more overheads into orbit.

Originally posted by at1withharmony11
Very interesting post , I know of a few places that are similar , Theres 2 spots I know of and i believe they have the same name called The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program HAARP for short ,ones located in Alaska and the other is i believe in Norway .When you actually do your research on these places ,you will be shocked to see what they can do and have been doing! Peace

This guy is on the right track I think, this program could have been a precursor to HAARP, if they're bouncing radio waves off the ionosphere, it's not a far conclusion to think they might have upped the ante at some point in a few decades.

Golf ball research. The mil. likes to play golf.