338 Comments for NRL Satellite Facility

If you are ever in SF check out the restored Nike base in the Golden gate National Recreation area. They let you ride down on the missle elevator with a rack of formely nuclear tipped spears. They have restored the radar and 1962 targetting computer in the vans. You can sit at the old style raytheon phosporus display azimuth and eleveation radar console srrounded by racks of humming vacume tubes and manipulate the controls as it runs through a training simulation of incoming soviet bombers. Very very creepy.

The only one I know of with so much restored equipment.

I used to hang out on a nike base in PA that had been used as a similar microwave earth station in the 1970s. They were still doing research in the 1980s there.There was lots of old abandoned equipment from previous projects. We took a number of tube amplifiers and made awesome guitar and PA amps out of them. I still have 2 of them. Weapons of the cold war truned into well used tools of joyfull expresion.

Oh my...they've used the phrase "city within a city" about a thousand times already, and it's on 25% finished.

Sheesh.

BTW, these are some groovy pics. I hadn't checked out this gallery yet.

Ummm...I didn't know an appropriate place to post this, so i just picked a picture with no comments on it yet.

Tonite, at 8pm EST on the National Geographic Channel, there's a show about Grand Central Station. From the commercials, it seems like it'll be a really interesting show for people into UE. There's supposed to be lots of stuff you don't normally see.

Just thought i'd pass alomg the info to some people who might be interested.

8-10pm EST, National Geographic Channel.

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But its not that long ago cause there is a heartagram in the name bam up there above the big red heart. bam is a new age skater/tv host. so its not that old.

The Silo is still there, its across the street, There is another complex similiar to this one about 20 miles away from the other end of waldorf. Ive driven by and stopped at the second site, but have yet to explore it..

i by no means condone graffiti, but the image would not be the same without it

Sorry rich, I guess I was vague. I don't agree with vandalism of any kind. I meant that these folks should take it off the street and out of buildings, and go to art school! Sorry, I should have elaborated.

I suppose someone wants the land to cover in identical 'executive' homes with hot tubs and double garages or some such rubbish.

I wonder if the missile silo is still there? I read an account on a UE site of two kids who explored one in New Mexico. This country is full of disused Cold War nuclear bunkers and underground command centres, I guess good old Blighty would have been first in the line of fire if the Soviets had ever decided to get bolshy lol...

Well said about grafitti. The good stuff belongs on the walls of youth centres and other specified places... MAYBE even brightening up dull concrete bridges and culverts... in other words where it's appreciated rather than being an eyesore on something beautiful. Tags on the other hand are just dumb. Why the desire to leave a mark anyway?

Either way, this dish would still be an amazing place to wath the stars with a loved one.

I'm almost positive this shot was taken at dusk. It was also taken a while ago, considering it the graffiti has almost tripled in the last few months. I life in waldorf, and this satellite has become quite popular. If you want to check it out, you best do it soon, the dish looks as if it will be coming down sometime in the near future.

If anyone would like, I could get addition pictures of the dish, and surroundings.

I agree with Trevor. Graffiti is not art and is not appreciated by those of us with refined tastes. It is petty vandalism. 'Tho those who tag well, should take their art and do something good with it. There is great talent out there. As for Braaa!, sounds like "in urban latvia there is a large(?) telescope."

WhAT?!? does any one else under stan Braaa!?

The pic is B E A Utifl except the grafiti
Curs you Malcom...

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i have more pictures of this military base. email me at exlax_max@hotmail.com or Aol Instant Messenger: Maxamilliyo . this base is in the middle of the neighborhood i live in, and most of the buildings have been tore down now. but i have pictures prior to the buildilngs being torn down