Wow finally an ACE high station with equipment. This is so fascinating! I would really like to go there and study all the equipment and instructions for some days. Thank you Bob, for filming so many details in every video about such technical things. I'm really looking forward to all the other military stuff that has to be discovered, still.
A big YES to what you are thinking my friend 😊 it would be wonderful to have a person who worded there, teach a class on the operations just like we where new people being assigned 😊❤😊 I would love to understand those old panels 😊 I guess I'm just a nerd 😊 when I personally see panels like those, I want to be told how they work, what people had to do at the station there. With those huge Gen. Sets, the station was self controlled That cement bunker ditch that was built into the ground, wonder if that was a protection foxhole for defense soldiers, plus that elevated guard tower. Those panels with all the massive connections Plugs, the guy who does this channel, goes to some fantasy Locations in the world that the military used. 😊❤😊
About 10 seconds before you said, " All the old people know what these are." I was thinking, you should take me along with you because I'm old, 68, and know what a lot of that stuff is.
Can I come to. I prefer the glow of thermionic valves/tubes to the blue smoke I inevitable let out when fixing modern stuff, I must stop using a Megger as I have a 100% component failure when I do ?????
So cool a lot of it was intact and the taggers haven't done their damage. I would have spent Hours pouring over the left documentation. Great footage Bob!👍
Brilliant explore! That weight in the generator house is a fire safety shutoff device. It’s held in place by a meltable link that breaks if a fire occurs, this releases the weight which drops and closes the fuel valves.
Saw this video about a month ago before holidaying in Kafalonia (September 2024), after searching the Island on Google Earth and discovering the Ace High site and wanting more information so Googled it..up poped this video. Being a radio amateur I just _had_ to visit it on holiday. It is truly amazing with the tranmitter hall almost exactly as in the video, though now stripped of many things with all the component / equuipment drawers for instance emptied. The transmitter / reciever racks in the equipment cabinets still the same - all valves of course 6AU6's for instance in profusion; the video projector on the trolly and Signal Generator on its trolly; old computers and printers thrown around the rooms. It's really astonishing! - like the Mary Celeste - as if everyone dropped everything they were doing and just walked out. Such a pity vandals insist on wrecking the place - windows smashed etc. . . I think the Greek heritage department should immediately take it over as a first class example of a secret, highly important Cold War site. It is unique in its state even now, largely intact, and desperately needs preservation. . .it's almost certainly the only one left of these 49 stations in a reasonably intact state. Here in the UK there are many wartime museums which are restored and of great interest to many visitors who pay good money to look at them. This site could be included in the visitor coach island viewing trips available and I suspect would be a real winner for interest. Douglas Denny.
Because we actually learned valuable information, invented and designed systems that created the foundation for today's modern world. Sadly so many of younger generations are incapable of even changing a flat tire on their car. 😅
Unfortunately there's not enough money in preserving it for visitors. It should be preserved, the whole facility is a museum piece. You can tell they spared no expense, the whole place speaks of a bygone era of fear and war. Thankfully, it's probably far too much of a bother for scrappers to strip it. Now we have equipment that can do very similar and most of it will fit in your pockets. It was great to see.
There should be a guy like the guy who bought the old mining town of Cerro Gordo to buy that facility and restore it and preserve it. The owner could live there and be absolutely safe
@@dehumm9619 Yeah good point. Many of the chemicals they used can't be easily or cheaply cleaned up. I have seen so many industrial properties sit vacant for decades due to toxins in the ground.
This was an awesome location! Crazy to see how they just left and let so much behind. A lot of history left to see. Great video with good background music usage. See you in the next video Bob 👊🏻
Wow! You really go to some awesome places to film! If it wasn't for you we may never see most of the cool things that are out there. Thankyou Bob &Co 😻
This is INSANE man! This was So fun to watch, Also i think you should sometime bring a laptop And plug in a hardrive from some old computer on the site. There would be So many cool things on it
Should do a show on the Pinetree and dew lines in Canada but they're almost all ripped out due to toxic waste cleanup reasons. A few with radar domes still around. Northern Quebec has a few I believe.
Spend a lot of time in Kefalonia and see the dishes from Argostoli. Didn’t realise the site was so big. Definitely getting a car to go up there for a look around next year 👍🏼 Great video as always Bob.
Great exploration! I was stationed at Prum Army/Air Force site in the Eifel, US Army Signal Corp 1972-73. I love this stuff. Multiple locks like that security were common when multiple services had access. Each service had the key to their lock in the chain. And today much of that massive amount of equipment in those big cabinets has been reduced to microchips wave flow soldered onto little circuit boards...automatically monitored and controlled by computers. It's truly quite amazing!
I cannot believe all of those old tubes in those panels in the equipment room haven't been pulled and taken. That place is a treasure trove of vintage knobs, dials, switches and indicator lamps.
ACE high, and other remote comms and radar installations, was a 90 day temporary duty assignment for most of the service members. Some unlucky bastards were assigned to the base, like in Adak Alaska or Thule Greenland, this was considered PCS, or permanent change of station, and was a 3 year assignment. When you consider Government waste, this Station is a good example, now realize there were dozens and dozens of these scattered around the world. Some are still active and functioning, out dated or obsolete equipment is thrown into large pits somewhere on the base. It is cool realizing that the equipment you are seeing at this location was once Ultra Secret state of the art stuff, expensive antiques now. I like this channel, always something interesting.
The room with receivers and amplifiers, all that equipment is in such good condition, amazing to be able to see it in such condition and imagine that room fully manned and operating.
Super Video, so peaceful up there with the birdsong, imagine how much money all that cost when it was new and cutting edge, with regard to the bolts, it’s good they overspeced everything as they are still intact and standing today
The multiple padlocks are from different people needing access to the building. If you don't have a key to an existing lock you cut the chain and then secure it with your own padlock. That way the building remains secure but you now have access.
I was expecting a huge bunker under those dishes or at least something underground. Still very impressive all the equipment still there and hasn't been destroyed. Well done Bod and your friends for showing us this amazing relic of a time of fear. 👍👍👍
Absolutely fascinating exploration Bob and nice to see the feisty and whacky Elaina.Loved the instruction she found "fill with sand after erection!" But seriously i was not aware of these ACE high stations and there were 5 in Britain where i live,sadly all demolished now.
Hi Bob Just to let you know the Minsk in china went on fire my friend it was on the china show on Friday live such a shame you did an excellent video on it keep up with the excellent informative content 👍👍👍
I worked in a remote research facility for a while. The whole camp ran off gensets. There were three. A 35kw and two 50kw gensets (one was a spare) there was a constant drone of diesel engines throughout the whole camp.
Great place! The Varta file states U Boot Batterien (=submarine batteries) on its cover and I'd say that there might have been a (Varta-) battery array as part of the uninterruptible power supply
Thank you, for this story, as a Armature Radio Operator we some times get to us Troposphere propagation for contacts. NATO history Great Stuff again thank you, stay well & 73 Best Wishes.
Great video, the technology at that time was pre semiconductor or rather it was not yet developed, the racks are predominately thermionic valves/tube requiring a lot of power and attention. The transmitter is using a Klystron again old but reliable tech, those need a not of angry pixies to run but out put a lot of power. The construction of the dishes is very over engineered but i think this was to reduce distortion from temperature changes as the dish is behaving like a lens to detect minute changes in signal time which may represent a target. The output of the Klystron was sent to the dish through copper / bronze wave guides some of the 'cable' at the dishes were in fact pipes, the heavy insulation was there to prevent the guides expanding and knocking the tuning out. . The projector was a Bacho properly used to overlay signal echoes on the screen. I think the engines were 8 cylinder Deutz. Can you post at the end of your videos any name plates images of control panels for us oldies. Thanks., Well done.
Very nice! I see some of the radio equipments comes from here (Italy)! I was in Kefalonia years ago for holidays but unfortunately didn't know about this place.
15:50 its generator maintenance records talking about filter changes and stuff 17:38 These are performance metrics of the ace high system 20:10 Basically, it is a registry of works being allocated and completed 23:06 power amplifier duh 23:19 setting ranges for the triodes 24:53 no these are used to perform various tests banana plugs bncs and stuff 25:38 Yes that's α δεξαμενη πετρελαιου if i have ever seen one
I noticed at 19:34 there are some frequency's listed in the 8 GHz band. As a ham radio operator the tropo effect is something I experienced myself. It starts on lower channels like FM radio where you could get the radio stations from Spain / Italy. They were sometimes stronger then the local radio stations here in The Netherlands. If I noticed this then with a little luck the 144-146 MHz band and maybe the 430-440 MHz band could have this effect as well. Meaning nice contacts maybe possible with south Europa. The high frequency of 8000+ MHz is maybe totally different with this tropo effect. Also the higher powers (10 KW) / large dish antenna's and shorter distances between the stations may effect the radio signals. Nice explore, Groeten 3FUS.
I met the crew of the station near Kulusuk, Greenland in the 1980s and talked to “Sob Story” on the radio when flying a light aircraft across the N Atlantic
Fantastic footage. There was an ACE High site 10km from my home in England, It closed in 1987. The site was cleared in 1991. There is now houses built on the site. This was in South East England and linked to Belgium and France. The equipment was ITT.
Best Adventure on old military installations. Those dishes pumped out um my guess 150,000 watts , notice the Wave Guides. And all the paint inside, probably Lead based.
Hi Bob. Amazing content as usual! Just curious, will you upload the videos in 4K or 1440P? I would love to watch your amazing videography skills in a higher resolution👍
Excellent! I was assigned to Coltano ASC 86-88. I know the site that I worked in has been completely demolished, only a concrete pad left. But the generator building and tech control facility. It's still intact as far as I know. Would love to see a video on that site in Italy
Can you say something more about it? I'm living in Pisa and I'm always been fashinate about the Coltano signal station. I know was a troposcatter station, but not part of the ACE High system. Also nearby there is one of the first radio installations of Marconi.
@DnaX there were several things there besides tropo, had satellite and line of site microwave also. I worked in the AUTODIN switch in the patch and test and also crypto. From the photos i've seen, there is nothing left but a concrete slab. When I was there, we were surrounded by two perimeter fences with constantina wire, guard dogs, ma's, Carabineri, and we even had geese which would go crazy if anybody got near the perimeter fence. If you do a search on AUTODIN, it will give you the basics on what it was all for, basically, with the advent of the internet, it eliminated the need for secure message trafficking.
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So close to Bulgaria, just check about "Object 17", there is a whole underground city..
This is an awesome Explore Bob!
The engines were straight 8's because all the cylinders are in a straght line, not V 8's which have two rows of 4.
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the soviet cold war city on their far east is super fascinating because they never cleaned up the KGB files on residents... just wild stuff.
Wow finally an ACE high station with equipment. This is so fascinating! I would really like to go there and study all the equipment and instructions for some days. Thank you Bob, for filming so many details in every video about such technical things. I'm really looking forward to all the other military stuff that has to be discovered, still.
Yes, this was a special one! I still have to post some other bunkers😁😎
A big YES to what you are thinking my friend 😊 it would be wonderful to have a person who worded there, teach a class on the operations just like we where new people being assigned 😊❤😊 I would love to understand those old panels 😊
I guess I'm just a nerd 😊 when I personally see panels like those, I want to be told how they work, what people had to do at the station there. With those huge Gen. Sets, the station was self controlled
That cement bunker ditch that was built into the ground, wonder if that was a protection foxhole for defense soldiers, plus that elevated guard tower. Those panels with all the massive connections
Plugs, the guy who does this channel, goes to some fantasy Locations in the world that the military used. 😊❤😊
Im very very fascinated on abandoned world war facilities and stuff like this cold war nato base tnx for filming it
About 10 seconds before you said, " All the old people know what these are." I was thinking, you should take me along with you because I'm old, 68, and know what a lot of that stuff is.
Can I come to. I prefer the glow of thermionic valves/tubes to the blue smoke I inevitable let out when fixing modern stuff, I must stop using a Megger as I have a 100% component failure when I do ?????
Haha! Amazing😬 I knew it!
Same here I'm 65 I used to fix that stuff when I was in the army
@@WOFFY-qc9teyou get that.
I’m 70 and I’m one of these old people who knows what that stuff is. My first year in the USAF was 50 years ago.
Thanks
Thanks! A little something towards your explorations.
Looks like an inline 8 with a tiny turbocharger.
Great video, love the research you do for each site. Radar sites are some of the best.
A series of them.
I think what you were assuming was a turbo was the cooling water pump.
That was an amazing video Bob! Thank you for all the hard work you put into your video's!! Glad to see Elena in your video too!!
Thanks al always 🫡 It takes quite some time to edit them😊And yes, more episodes with Elaina coming up
Thanks!
Thanks a million for your support🙏🙏🙏
So cool a lot of it was intact and the taggers haven't done their damage. I would have spent Hours pouring over the left documentation. Great footage Bob!👍
Yeah I like the documents too. Checking the date and the names
only unfortunate that videos like these change that fast. young people really love destroying
Brilliant explore! That weight in the generator house is a fire safety shutoff device. It’s held in place by a meltable link that breaks if a fire occurs, this releases the weight which drops and closes the fuel valves.
Saw this video about a month ago before holidaying in Kafalonia (September 2024), after searching the Island on Google Earth and discovering the Ace High site and wanting more information so Googled it..up poped this video.
Being a radio amateur I just _had_ to visit it on holiday. It is truly amazing with the tranmitter hall almost exactly as in the video, though now stripped of many things with all the component / equuipment drawers for instance emptied. The transmitter / reciever racks in the equipment cabinets still the same - all valves of course 6AU6's for instance in profusion; the video projector on the trolly and Signal Generator on its trolly; old computers and printers thrown around the rooms. It's really astonishing! - like the Mary Celeste - as if everyone dropped everything they were doing and just walked out.
Such a pity vandals insist on wrecking the place - windows smashed etc. . .
I think the Greek heritage department should immediately take it over as a first class example of a secret, highly important Cold War site. It is unique in its state even now, largely intact, and desperately needs preservation. . .it's almost certainly the only one left of these 49 stations in a reasonably intact state.
Here in the UK there are many wartime museums which are restored and of great interest to many visitors who pay good money to look at them. This site could be included in the visitor coach island viewing trips available and I suspect would be a real winner for interest.
Douglas Denny.
I’m always impressed with how much the people in the comments know about what ever the site is you guys are exploring.
Because we actually learned valuable information, invented and designed systems that created the foundation for today's modern world. Sadly so many of younger generations are incapable of even changing a flat tire on their car. 😅
Unfortunately there's not enough money in preserving it for visitors. It should be preserved, the whole facility is a museum piece. You can tell they spared no expense, the whole place speaks of a bygone era of fear and war. Thankfully, it's probably far too much of a bother for scrappers to strip it. Now we have equipment that can do very similar and most of it will fit in your pockets.
It was great to see.
There should be a guy like the guy who bought the old mining town of Cerro Gordo to buy that facility and restore it and preserve it. The owner could live there and be absolutely safe
Here in Canada we ripped out dew and pinetree line stations as they had lots of toxic waste from degreasers and touoluene, pcbs, etc.
@@dehumm9619 Yeah good point. Many of the chemicals they used can't be easily or cheaply cleaned up.
I have seen so many industrial properties sit vacant for decades due to toxins in the ground.
That was a awesome going to that Nato Base ,It's hard to believe they left so much equipment behind ,there is a lot of money in scrap value there .
Who are you going to sell the scrap to Einstein? The labor and ferry back to mainland you would probably lose money.
Yes, a real gem!
Probably not worth the dismantling and hauling. But I guess there will be more urbex ppl coming here now and they might clean it up
Besides steel and copper - there might be even a substantial amount of gold in some of those parts.
Back then - this was very expensive equipment.
This was an awesome location! Crazy to see how they just left and let so much behind. A lot of history left to see. Great video with good background music usage. See you in the next video Bob 👊🏻
I watched a video about 8 months ago of some of urban explorers checking out this base! Awesome to see two big channels cover it!
O really??? 🥹didn’t see that
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath It was Shiey but I don't think it was the same base.
yeah, they are shiey, checkmate, and urban oddysey. Same NATO base build for ColdWar but different place
Im very very fascinated on abandoned world war facilities and stuff like this cold war nato base tnx for filming it
Wow! You really go to some awesome places to film! If it wasn't for you we may never see most of the cool things that are out there. Thankyou Bob &Co 😻
This is INSANE man! This was So fun to watch, Also i think you should sometime bring a laptop And plug in a hardrive from some old computer on the site. There would be So many cool things on it
Should do a show on the Pinetree and dew lines in Canada but they're almost all ripped out due to toxic waste cleanup reasons. A few with radar domes still around. Northern Quebec has a few I believe.
What a great tour! Greetings and thumbs up from Canada!
Thanks for that 👊 😬
Such an enjoyable exploration. I love the history behind this place. Thank you.
Thanks for checking out!
You explained every part of this place, I love how you go into detail and tell the history, well done as always
Spend a lot of time in Kefalonia and see the dishes from Argostoli. Didn’t realise the site was so big. Definitely getting a car to go up there for a look around next year 👍🏼
Great video as always Bob.
That site must have been in use until fairly recently. Power here and there. Hot water. This base might even be on the books as temporary closed.
Great exploration! I was stationed at Prum Army/Air Force site in the Eifel, US Army Signal Corp 1972-73. I love this stuff.
Multiple locks like that security were common when multiple services had access. Each service had the key to their lock in the chain. And today much of that massive amount of equipment in those big cabinets has been reduced to microchips wave flow soldered onto little circuit boards...automatically monitored and controlled by computers. It's truly quite amazing!
Another awesome exploration Bod! Respect from Greece dude!
I cannot believe all of those old tubes in those panels in the equipment room haven't been pulled and taken. That place is a treasure trove of vintage knobs, dials, switches and indicator lamps.
Awesome, Bob. Always an interesting adventure, well worth the watch. Thx.
Very cool explore and the 2 explore partners were very cool too. Good job all thanks for sharing
Another great video, thank you!! This equipment was bleeding edge technology back in the day.
ACE high, and other remote comms and radar installations, was a 90 day temporary duty assignment for most of the service members. Some unlucky bastards were assigned to the base, like in Adak Alaska or Thule Greenland, this was considered PCS, or permanent change of station, and was a 3 year assignment. When you consider Government waste, this Station is a good example, now realize there were dozens and dozens of these scattered around the world. Some are still active and functioning, out dated or obsolete equipment is thrown into large pits somewhere on the base. It is cool realizing that the equipment you are seeing at this location was once Ultra Secret state of the art stuff, expensive antiques now. I like this channel, always something interesting.
The room with receivers and amplifiers, all that equipment is in such good condition, amazing to be able to see it in such condition and imagine that room fully manned and operating.
THX for your hard work and adventurism. Love these kinds of vids
Thanks for checking them😇🙏
Love your enthusiasm for these places. By way of a bonus Elaina is gorgeous (and distinctly mad).
I love the sound effects you put in looking at the panel I thought you hit something by accident😂
The weight are for fire, when the cable burns ,it snaps , the weight falls, which shuts off the valves
Thank you, that brought back some cool memories.
That was brilliant. I can smell the phenolic vapours from here.
This is a load of radio history worthy of preservation.
Thanks for documenting it.
great vid! wanted to visit it for years and never went through with it. hope the vid doesn't affect the place's condition
It’s pretty remote and not a secret so should be fine.
Great work and very good explained about Project ACE High. Thanks for Shairing
The electricity is still on perhaps for contemporary antennas on the tower at the end of the video. Great video!
Great video Bob. Thanks for making it
A very interesting explore and very nice too see everything was left wow.
Glad you liked it Rolf! It was a special one. More bunkers coming up🙏
Great adventure, Bob. Thanks for taking us along!
Super Video, so peaceful up there with the birdsong, imagine how much money all that cost when it was new and cutting edge, with regard to the bolts, it’s good they overspeced everything as they are still intact and standing today
The multiple padlocks are from different people needing access to the building. If you don't have a key to an existing lock you cut the chain and then secure it with your own padlock. That way the building remains secure but you now have access.
I was expecting a huge bunker under those dishes or at least something underground. Still very impressive all the equipment still there and hasn't been destroyed. Well done Bod and your friends for showing us this amazing relic of a time of fear. 👍👍👍
Always enjoy your vids man.
Excellent explore, really interesting.
Those discs are BIG. And that girl is a trooper. Climbing to the top like nothing. I myself like solid ground.
Ive been lately to the ACE-High Base near La Spezia in Italy, it was really awesome but not that good intact. Awesome video
You are one of the bravest human being in this world my brother !!!
Absolutely fascinating exploration Bob and nice to see the feisty and whacky Elaina.Loved the instruction she found "fill with sand after erection!" But seriously i was not aware of these ACE high stations and there were 5 in Britain where i live,sadly all demolished now.
Thank you for another experience i could not enjoy in person.
very interesting and informative coverage , thanks again
The transmitters transmitted on between 832.56 - 959.28 MHz with an average power of 10 kilowatts (10,000 watts).
Wow, that was awesome 👍
Another awesome explore!
Love your videos Bob! Always interesting to see!
I love your videos brother keep it up❤😊
Thanks🫡🫡😃
Totally unbelievable find. So jealous. Ty for posting
Thanks for taking me along hello from Australia that site is near on pristine hope it stays that way .
Thank you for sharing this, very interesting!
I worked at sites like these in the early 80s thanks for the memories.
Would make a great museum....love the birds sounds
Amazing righy?!
I have been there at September 5-6 years ago. So fantastic view
Your videos are so relaxing and I wish that I had the physical and financial ability to do this
Another great adventure. Ty for sharing Bob.
Awesome!!
Hi Bob
Just to let you know the Minsk in china went on fire my friend it was on the china show on Friday live such a shame you did an excellent video on it keep up with the excellent informative content 👍👍👍
I'm amazed all those dials and gauges are still fitted' they fetch a fortune on the open market, not to mention all those valves etc...
Not the last but one of the last !!! Good Job !
You know of a more intact than this one then?
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath Ace High Livorno on Giogo Mountain. Radio sistema Is in Place and Power sistem Is in place without cable
Sweet find thanks for the video.
Thank you for watching
I bet that generator house would have been really loud with all of those running, amazing it's just left the way it is
I worked in a remote research facility for a while. The whole camp ran off gensets. There were three. A 35kw and two 50kw gensets (one was a spare) there was a constant drone of diesel engines throughout the whole camp.
Love it! Great find Bob :)
Great place! The Varta file states U Boot Batterien (=submarine batteries) on its cover and I'd say that there might have been a (Varta-) battery array as part of the uninterruptible power supply
Thanks for the info! Interesting
Good spot, that was when Varta made good batteries.
It's so cool seeing history, though it is also sad to see damaging caused by individuals
Yes love seeing a new video
Have been busy (and still busy) with a TV series so there have been less uploads. But I recently hired an editor, so I will catch up 🙏😊
Although there was no "sneaking about", this was a great episode!
Thank you, for this story, as a Armature Radio Operator we some times get to us Troposphere propagation for contacts. NATO history Great Stuff again thank you, stay well & 73 Best Wishes.
Thank you for checking out🙂🙂🙂
Great video, the technology at that time was pre semiconductor or rather it was not yet developed, the racks are predominately thermionic valves/tube requiring a lot of power and attention. The transmitter is using a Klystron again old but reliable tech, those need a not of angry pixies to run but out put a lot of power. The construction of the dishes is very over engineered but i think this was to reduce distortion from temperature changes as the dish is behaving like a lens to detect minute changes in signal time which may represent a target. The output of the Klystron was sent to the dish through copper / bronze wave guides some of the 'cable' at the dishes were in fact pipes, the heavy insulation was there to prevent the guides expanding and knocking the tuning out. . The projector was a Bacho properly used to overlay signal echoes on the screen. I think the engines were 8 cylinder Deutz. Can you post at the end of your videos any name plates images of control panels for us oldies. Thanks., Well done.
Oui, très certainement des Deutz a 8 cylindres en ligne.
Very nice! I see some of the radio equipments comes from here (Italy)! I was in Kefalonia years ago for holidays but unfortunately didn't know about this place.
wow those computers take me back to my childhood..the printer there i believe is an old dmp..dot matrix printer, so 80s
That was station GKFZ. It talked East to GPKZ (Pentelikon, Greece) and West to IMMZ or Monte Mancuso, Italy. Nice to see one mostly intact!
My best guess is the bolts are for simply keeping the dish together. I don't see any signs at all of welding so... you need a loooot of bolts.
15:50 its generator maintenance records talking about filter changes and stuff
17:38 These are performance metrics of the ace high system
20:10 Basically, it is a registry of works being allocated and completed
23:06 power amplifier duh
23:19 setting ranges for the triodes
24:53 no these are used to perform various tests banana plugs bncs and stuff
25:38 Yes that's α δεξαμενη πετρελαιου if i have ever seen one
Cool episode!
I noticed at 19:34 there are some frequency's listed in the 8 GHz band. As a ham radio operator the tropo effect is something I experienced myself.
It starts on lower channels like FM radio where you could get the radio stations from Spain / Italy. They were sometimes stronger then the local radio stations here in The Netherlands.
If I noticed this then with a little luck the 144-146 MHz band and maybe the 430-440 MHz band could have this effect as well. Meaning nice contacts maybe possible with south Europa.
The high frequency of 8000+ MHz is maybe totally different with this tropo effect. Also the higher powers (10 KW) / large dish antenna's and shorter distances between the stations may effect the radio signals.
Nice explore, Groeten 3FUS.
I met the crew of the station near Kulusuk, Greenland in the 1980s and talked to “Sob Story” on the radio when flying a light aircraft across the N Atlantic
WOAH THIS IS AMAZING< they should turn it into a museum.
Fantastic footage. There was an ACE High site 10km from my home in England, It closed in 1987. The site was cleared in 1991. There is now houses built on the site. This was in South East England and linked to Belgium and France. The equipment was ITT.
Thanks for checking out! There are many stations.. but most got destroyed🫤
Best Adventure on old military installations.
Those dishes pumped out um my guess 150,000 watts , notice the Wave Guides.
And all the paint inside, probably Lead based.
9:11 no V8 there. Looks like inline6 all of them 😄
I see inline 8...😉
Straight 8 Deutz
Not 6 but, 8 inline
Yes sir and look like runners with a bit of tinkering.@@WOFFY-qc9te
It's inline 8
Hi Bob. Amazing content as usual! Just curious, will you upload the videos in 4K or 1440P? I would love to watch your amazing videography skills in a higher resolution👍
Fun to watch mostly.
@9:08 Those aren't "V 8s" lol those are inline engines, straight 8s, not V8s.
GREAT VIDEO BOB......
Damn, missed premiere. Nice one bro
No worries! I posted very little in the past year
@@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath I posted even less 😆
Excellent! I was assigned to Coltano ASC 86-88. I know the site that I worked in has been completely demolished, only a concrete pad left. But the generator building and tech control facility. It's still intact as far as I know. Would love to see a video on that site in Italy
Can you say something more about it? I'm living in Pisa and I'm always been fashinate about the Coltano signal station. I know was a troposcatter station, but not part of the ACE High system. Also nearby there is one of the first radio installations of Marconi.
@DnaX there were several things there besides tropo, had satellite and line of site microwave also. I worked in the AUTODIN switch in the patch and test and also crypto. From the photos i've seen, there is nothing left but a concrete slab. When I was there, we were surrounded by two perimeter fences with constantina wire, guard dogs, ma's, Carabineri, and we even had geese which would go crazy if anybody got near the perimeter fence. If you do a search on AUTODIN, it will give you the basics on what it was all for, basically, with the advent of the internet, it eliminated the need for secure message trafficking.
The Hewlett Packard 9845 computer on the handcart is a great piece. Seems to be in good condition.