NASA tracking station adventure

[Outback]

Thanks Martin. It was fun to take the wife and kids up there. If anyone heads out this way and if im in town I would glady show you all where she is.

 

[Outback]

I found a few historic pictures of the Ely site.

 

[Outback]

By looking at the winter picture above (1st one) and comparing to the ones I took yesterday you can see that the station was added onto at some point in its life. The generator build was expanded to include two more generators. Two additions were also added to the main building. One addition added at least 35% more square footage while the other was for another radar dish and dome housing. The dome housing is now gone from both of there mounts. I would like to go back up there and take much more detailed pictures if anyone would like to join me. We just need to work out the dates. Maybe an over night stay up at the base?

 

[angusdevil]

Sweet! Looks like it was a fun trip. Reminds me of the Comm tower that was just north of Four Peaks that was abandoned for the longest time but the tower was still up. It was pulled down and revamped a couple months back so you can't go exploring but I got lots of pics before it was closed back up

 

[Outback]

Historic pics

 

[PHXtaco]

Nice. I love these "modern day ghost towns." I did not know of this historic aviation location and will add it to my to-visit list.

 

[angusdevil]

A couple pics of the tower for whomever is interested

 

[Desert Dan]

I found a site a while ago that listed old and or abandoned airfields around the country. It was pretty interesting.

In NV there were several emergency landing strips on dry lakes for test aircraft etc.

 

[txtumbleweed]

A Couple of Websites That Might Be Interesting

http://members.tripod.com/airfields_freeman/index.htm

http://www.airforcebase.net/index.html

 

[Outback]

What a great list TXTumbleweed!

 

[wanderer-rrorc]

it must be WAY out...I cant beleive the scrappers didnt get all the copper yet!!

awsome adventure...:elkgrin:

 

[moose70]

I spent the last 7 1/2 years of the station's life working up there...started as a radar tech., then Radar Leader, then Technical Advisor (Site Engineer), ended up as Site Manager for a short while during closing. RCA had the contract with NASA to operate the Station many years before it closed. As you can imagine, it was always an adventure working there, especially in the winter months..I "really" saw it snow up there in August! A routine chill factor in winter was -50 degrees.
If anyone has any questions that I might answer for them, my E-mail is:
glennbrown20@gmail.com A little sad, but thanks for the pictures. moose70