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>>55160554
Sorry I fell asleep after the last post I made. I saw someone make a comment about using an iPhone. The pics were actually a mix of iPhone 6, Sony RX-100II, and 6D pics depending on what I had with me at the time.
Here's a view of some of the remaining upper level equipment. Back when they decommissioned this radar policies were a bit different. They would pull everything that is usable and then abandon in place anything that was unneeded. It then just generally becomes a free for all. It also helps that you can't exactly truck off scrap where we are so the site has remained mostly intact.
Basically things are literally just as they left it after decommissioning. All sorts of bolts all over the place....you can see how they tossed things to the side and they never have been touched since.
Again from the lower level. There were giant klystron tubes and their associated gear to the right and I believe a ton of capacitors to the left. The caps were known to occasionally explode :)
A bunch of gear oil drooled down some columns I believe from when they ripped the old dish down. Looks freaky in person.
>>55178193
fantastic threads
Thank you for sharing
a few more pics. This is the same main entry corridor in my building but tons of changes to it. Lots of support equipment, extra doors, etc. Oh and it doesn't look like its been abandoned 30 years.
An earlier view of the doors without the snow and before dark season. The crates are empty sadly. I was hoping for cool things too.
>>55178193
This is awesome OP, what kind of work do you do down there?
>>55180597
I'm a radar operator.
Fun side note. There are interesting differences between mu building and the abandoned 2 (one of which has since bene torn down). In 4003 the tunnel intersected at the rear of the building. In mine, it intersected at the 3/4 point roughly. This was because by building once housed all of the computers used to decipher the inputs. These spaces were then converted into usable staff space when they built the new phased array radar on top of it in the 80s. What once was 2 floors of mainframes and support equipment became a room of servers and the like.
>>55180776
Apologies on the typos. Didn't check for errors.
In all honesty it is amazing to stand in the presence of history. BMEWS has stood guard since 1961 and even with the upgrades we do the same job regardless of the tech. Terms and tech have changed but even today we do the same job as our predecessors. It's hard to put in words the respect I have for those before us.
