Sunday, April 12, 2015

Climbing the Russian Woodpecker

Duga-3 is an enormous Over The Horizon radar array, two of them actually, a 525 foot array for low frequency and another smaller one for higher frequency. The two arrays are associated with and powered by nearby Chernobyl.

The radar is protection from us.

The signal emitters are aimed straight out right past the horizon straight ahead as shown in the key frame, to bounce off the ionosphere and like a bat detect any changes such as rocket launches by the United States.

The site is so huge it is imagined by some to be designed to affect weather. Such is the weather paranoia. Concerns about terrorism have caused militia to appear all around the site to protect it even though it is long deactivated. Located in the Ukraine it is one such Soviet site that is attractive to tourists but now all that is stopped. There are videos of base jumping off the top, extraordinarily dangerous for the veritable cliff of snagging projections.



YouTube member bionerd23 has many more similar investigative videos of Chernobyl and the surrounding area, a lot of poking around testing radiation, exploring structures, examining flora and fauna, cooling ponds, eating apples, exploring the exclusion zone, the cemetery and the like.

8 comments:

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

"Structure lurking."

BTW, you can get a radiation meter at our Amazon portal.

Rabel said...

Product description from Lem's "radiation meter":

"NOTE: The dosimeter is for testing the electric field radiation, if the equipment like computer connect power ground loop well, it would lead electric field radiation to the ground, to shield it, then the test failed. Besides, metal will shield the radiation. If the meter display "0" always in testing. Please change a battery!"

All your radiation meters are belong to us.

It's built by the "generic" manufacturing company, so you know it's a quality product.

Chip Ahoy said...

Yes, the best radiation meters are by Acme.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

I have no use for a radiation meter unless it doubles as a breathalyzer.

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rhhardin said...

Ground loops are fairly minor signals. They give you an unremoveable hum in audio lines. They're big enough to amplify into audio but not to do much else.

It comes from an audio circuit having a common component with the AC power, namely the shield of the connecting audio cable. A slight resistance gives you a slight voltage swing and there you are.

Put an isolation transformer in the audio line and it's cured. Radio Shack

3rd attempt to fix self-destroying link.