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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USASA_Field_Station_Augsburg

United States Army Security Agency (USASA) Field Station Augsburg was the site of a Wullenweber AN/FLR-9 (V8) radio direction finder, established during the Cold War. Field Station Augsburg was located on Gablingen Kaserne, near the village of Gablingen just north of Augsburg in Bavaria, West Germany. It was one of nearly 20 field stations positioned strategically around the world by the U.S. Armed Forces during the Cold War. Field Station Augsburg opened in 1970[1] and closed in 1998, at which time it was turned over to the German government.

The Station was owned and managed by the National Security Agency and staffed by the United States Army Security Agency (USASA), which later became U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), in conjunction with other branches of the U.S. Military and various allied forces. Personnel assigned to Field Station Augsburg were composed[ of individuals who scored high enough on the Army entrance exams to be classified as "ST" or a skilled technician, which is the Army's top-ranked job category. The Station was staffed 24 hours a day, by means of rotating shifts.[1] The Station's mission was to monitor the communications of Cold War enemy nations, their allies, and client states around the world. The information gathered was time-sensitive and, based on its importance and classification, that information was collected, analyzed and passed through intelligence channels on a "real-time" basis.

With the end of the Cold War, Field Station Augsburg lost much of its strategic value. It is currently reputedly used by the Bundesnachrichtendienst.[2] The Wullenweber / Flair-9 antenna is still in place as of March 2022.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circularly_disposed_antenna_array

A circularly disposed antenna array (CDAA), sometimes referred to as a circularly disposed dipole array (CDDA) or a wullenweber,[1] is a large circular antenna array used for radio direction finding. They are used by military and government agencies to triangulate radio signals for radio navigation, intelligence gathering, search and rescue, and enforcement of broadcasting laws. Because their huge circular reflecting screens look like circular fences, some antennas have been colloquially referred to as "elephant cages". The term "wullenwever" was the World War II German cover term used to identify their secret CDAA research and development program; its name is unrelated to any person involved in the program.

Post-war development

Although Pietzner, Schellhoss, and Wächtler retired in West Germany, some of their second-echelon technicians were taken to the USSR after the war. At least 30 Krug (Russian for circle) arrays were installed all over the Soviet Union and allied countries in the 1950s, well before the U.S. military became interested and developed their CDAAs. Several Krugs were installed in pairs less than 10 kilometers from each other, apparently for radio navigation purposes. At least four Krugs were installed near Moscow; just to the north, east and south (55.46408°N 37.3698°E) of the city. The Krugs were used to track the early Sputnik satellites, using their 10 and 20 MHz beacons, and were instrumental in locating re-entry vehicles. The Soviet Krug arrays also use the 40-element CDAA configuration.

The array in Skibsby was extensively studied by the British and then destroyed following the war in accordance with the Geneva Convention. Dr. Wächtler arranged to have a second array built, at Telefunken expense, at Langenargen/Bodensee, for further experimentation after the war. In the years following the war, the U.S. disassembled the Langenargen / Bodensee array and brought it back to the U.S., where it became known as the "Wullenweber" array.

One of the German antenna researchers, Dr. Rolf Wundt, was one of hundreds of German scientists taken to the U.S. by the Army after the war under Operation Paperclip. He arrived in New York in March 1947 on the same ship as Wernher Von Braun and his wife and parents. He was first employed by the U.S. Air Force and then GT&E Sylvania Electronics Systems on CDAA and other antenna projects.

I know the long episodes on HW exist but is it just an inside joke or is there more to it?

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Hi Mr. Anthony I love your podcast about hats

All of this reminds me of how cults came to dominate Japanese religious life in the postwar years & became intimately bound up with the Japanese Diet. Even the Moonies, which started in the Republic of Korea, notoriously did way more "business" in Japan than the ROK

https://xcancel.com/The_Wub_/status/1860833378280284489

real sense in which this admin is getting the WACL team back together

Link to the tweet

Also to avoid hurting the feelings of the French, they brought in white people instead for parades dressed as French troops rather than the African troops who saved them.

And as a side note, Africa's reward for being instrumental in France's liberation was having the French overthrow many, many of their leaders.

I'm beginning to realize i really don't want to learn as much about Western history any more. Stalin shouldn't have stopped at Berlin.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6340824

sources are claiming the president elect has locked himself in the bathroom with a gun and is refusing to come out

#FidelPorSiempre

the homogenization of the US by these chain companies is disgusting. they show up like parasites to any town once they reach some arbitrary population density and suck up business that should be going to locally owned operations. completely destroys the culture. 90% of american towns are just a strip of gas stations and the same fast food chains

hyper local chains are still kinda cool though. shit that only exists around cities and their burbs. still has local flavor and culture, so they get a pass thus the 100 mile radius limit.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6339705

Good songs and a gif that keeps of giving!

We've been a group on Discord for a little over 2 years. We try to meet on Sundays at 7:00PM EST and play til 10:30-ish. We're currently playing Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th Edition. Being a Warhammer rpg, there's a reasonable amount of combat and for various personal reasons, our two most melee-oriented characters have had to leave. Currently, the party has been making do with a Halfling guard whose build is more geared toward ranged combat and an NPC Dwarf they freed from the town stocks, who is also not geared for combat.

We tried recruiting some fighters about 3 weeks ago, but the two who responded never got back to us. The last time we got people to join us was when EstraDoll included a picture of Biggs, so she's given me this exclusive Biggs photo to entice further applicants.

Unfortunately, EstraDoll do not supply me with the updated list of user tags for Biggsposting.