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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Started conversation May 20, 2009
Hi, Pedros!!
I was at SV 1978-1979
Yes, T80, T13, S259!!
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Pedros_Ecosse - I always look this confused! :) Posted May 21, 2009
i was there 98-00 best 16 months in the RAF, worked on tx/rx and TACAN!!
It was a 101 when I was there in the dome!
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted May 21, 2009
Did they still tell the tale about the 80 aerial going walkabout during a particularly nasty storm, before the dome got built???
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Pedros_Ecosse - I always look this confused! :) Posted May 22, 2009
now this is interesting as I believe that one of the antenna went walkabout during the storm hogmany 90 into 91.
the story I heard was that there was a dome there amd one of the panels came loose, with the wind inside the dome it ripped it apart and dumped a 75 ton radar in the north sea!!
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted May 22, 2009
The 90-91 walkabout may have been the t13 height finder. It regalarly got bent!!!!
But as to the t80, that happened around 72-73, before the dome was built.
The story goes that during the storm, the scopies rang the hill complaining that they had lost their picture, and what the techs were doing about it.
The message sent back is unprintable here, but the jist of it was, "You've lost your picture, we've lost our ********* antenna!!!
I beleive it took North Luffenham 3 months to fix, and a Norwegian Dome Building four months to build the Dome!!!!
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted May 22, 2009
Sorry, Pedros!
Forgot to mention, the wind only chucked it 50ft!!
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted May 23, 2009
The 80 antenna weighed 18 Tons, now I remember!!!
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Pedros_Ecosse - I always look this confused! :) Posted May 25, 2009
ah gotcha didn't even reaise it had happened before 90-91!
the dome, radar (75 tons) the lot were scrapped off the top of Saxa hill et al, it was brutal by all accounts
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Pedros_Ecosse - I always look this confused! :) Posted May 26, 2009
ah you see you learned gentlemen could steer me back on the right path!!
last time i went to the lodge was 3 years ago in cyprus when I was out doing some work for 3 weeks, when I lived there got nagged to go for 2nd and sat in the chair a few times and no pretty much everything you need
one of the brothers joined the order way back in the 80's and as far as I know he is still 1st degree
does he care - no! to chilled for that
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Pedros_Ecosse - I always look this confused! :) Posted May 26, 2009
sorry thats a 'know' rather than a 'no' in the previous post!
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