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KingElvis
28-07-2008, 09:44 AM
This is what remains of RAF Stenigot which was part of the NATO secure communications system called Ace High. It was one of five Forward Scatter Stations (FFS) built in the UK. The system stretched across the whole of Europe. The sad remains of the Cold War.

These massive dishes weigh over 100 tons each and have just been cut off and left in the field at the top of the site. There is also an old control building which was part of the Chain Home Radar system used after WW2. The whole site was abandoned in the early 1990s after microwave and space based comms became the norm.

SubBrit article here

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/s/stenigot/index.html

This place looks easy to find but it isn't LOL

Visited with Squirrel68 who took most the better pictures :thumb


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The old Chain Home Radar control building

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