Excellent content but you should absolutely lose the movie music. It makes it hard to hear, understand and process for those of us with a hearing loss.
9:58 The comparison of power consumption with Alabama’s generating capacity is off by a factor of 1000. GW and MW shouldn’t be confused. It’s still a big chunk of energy, of course.
I've been in contact with one of the people who designed the computer system managing the phased array radar. Of course there is a lot he can't disclose, but the challenges they had to deal with are interesting, and it is rather amazing they managed at all, seeing how this was still quite challenging 20 years later.
Hey Ryan, I wouldn't terribly mind the background music to actually be in the background. If I want to be able to hear you, I'd have to turn up the volume so high it hurts.
I knew someone who worked at Raytheon. He would never say anything other than he works at Raytheon. Just said he was a manager. Never really asked about it out of respect.
Gone before I was born, Nike missile base NY-73 was located just a mile or so from where I live. Very little remains of it, other than some barbed fencing and some concrete pads at the radar site. There is a pretty well preserved Nike site in Sandy Hook, NJ
American Radar tech actually got smaller because our computer signal processing tech allowed us to build phased arrays of smaller radar transceivers. The AEGIS system on Navy ships is the best example of a super-powerful Radar in a smaller footprint, but there are many others.
Cheers from Las Cruces NM! Not far from WSMR… my dad used to work at HELSTF in WSMR High Energy Lazer System Telemetry Facility in the 80s… aka “Star Wars”.
@7:02- I am sorry but that background music seems to be swelling in intensity and is quite distracting. Another thing - the word is nu-CLEAR, NOT NUKULER. I refuse to listen to anyone who cannot differentiate.
Great video. I did not know this existed but I knew about the Safeguard Complex but not this system. Thanks! I think this must be the place that shoots orange lasers from the Strategic Defense Initiative now. Definitely do a video on that.
While the laser tests themselves probably aren’t on the table yet, I can tell you as a channel researcher that they will be included in another video sooner rather than later
The “Over the Horizon Radar System”, of the 1980’s ~ 90’s, might be a topic of interest. Last I knew, (early 2000’s), it was still being used by military and DEA, at least in Bangor, ME..
Back in the early 60's I was somewhere around 8 years old, I can remember my parents talking about Uncle Ozzy working for Western Electric, and nobody could know what he did. This was it.
If you could, a research of hidden and secret Military Bases/Bunkers within Western Washington (near the USN Bremerton Shipyard) would be greatly appreciated. Sadly my state does not release such information to "common citizens", because I have looked...
America is a young nation, and some see it as a country without much history. But for me, equally fascinated by American history as any other, its 'youth' is a massive benefit - all the locations, sites, buildings abandoned or otherwise, to me it's all so close, like it only just happened and anyone interested can put themselves right in the presence of this history and see how it all fits.
I wonder if that was the inspiration for the sneaker company.. Must have been a cool experience for your brother though...No matter where those sweat shop purveyors got their inspiration.
I love your channel it's like watching the history channel. Very impressive. Thank for All the knowledge you have given to me I love to learn Also was wondering do score your own documentary because the score on the radar platform I love could I get the score to this documentary ? Any info you could give about this score I'd appreciate Thank you looking forward to your future works
The computers for the North Dakota sites were a pair of CDC 7600's, by far the fastest computers of the early 1970's. They had a pair as the computers were not very reliable, they had a mean time between failures of like six hours. Couple that with the failure rate of the radar TWT's and you had an overall system uptime of maybe 50%? Not so good. When the sites were shut down there was a big auction, some grad students at my university drove up there and bought some of the scrapped CDC 713 terminals. 16 lines of 80 characters, luxurious at the time. Not terribly well designed terminals, the monitors did not have DC restoration or high voltage regulation so inverse video was iffy at best.
Hey enjoyed the vid and enjoy listening to the great info but please turn the background music down a little bit more, it’s not that I can’t hear you but it’s that it takes over and I’m losing what you say because I focus on the music, kinda gives a headache trying to block it out when it’s just so there.
Beale Air Force base has a giant building that houses a phased array RADAR. It is named PAVEPAWS and the tower controllers caution aircraft transitioning the class D to not get too close to it.
The background soundscape (“music”) seems to something that creators believe is necessary for their videos. It would be less distracting for videos to do away with the background soundscape and focus on their narration.
people were led to believe they were in imminent danger because when people are afraid they are less likely to ask questions about the money being spent or lengths being gone to in order to "keep them safe "
Your Alabama power consumption comparison is off by several orders of magnitude. If this facility consumed 4 MWh, that's not 1/3 of Alabama's 2021 power consumption of 11,556,000 MWh.
8:01 - - MAR-1 - - 1st phased array radar in US (R2D2’s head) *SEE MENU (above “...more”) FOR CHAPTER + TOPIC BREAKDOWN* - - 0:46 - - Radar basics 1:03 - - *ROBERT ALEXANDER WATSON WATTS* (Scottish) laid foundation for all contemporary radar systems - - his initial creation aimed to aid pilots in challenging weather conditions (thunderstorms + heavy rain)
I haven't watched any of the video. The DEW line, Mid-pine tree , there was one more here in Northern Canada. It was to detect Soviet bombers and ICBM, SLBM etc. The Yanks left a toxic mess.
You’d be surprised how much it enhances the experience. Movies use music throughout entire films without you really noticing but it really enhances your perception of the mood the creator is trying to portray
@itstvil4339 I bet you are a real peach to be around. Someone says they don't like something and you do your best to try and convince them that they don't know what they are talking about. I don't care what they are trying to convey, I hate it.
All I know; It all sounds EXPENSIVE!!!! Not hard to imagine where else we should've probably invested all that $$$. This is what happens when a countries gets hijacked via "fear" by very disgruntled individuals. So you better understand, we basically got taken ($$$) and those that oversaw it happen legally made out w/ alot of $$$..... Don't for a second think this isn't the case today. Follow the $$$...
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Have done corea Maine we called it dino cage it was huge could see for miles. Same town got like 5 on stands look like almost golf ball . . Huge base on national Park to had store movie theater huge gym fire department
Excellent content but you should absolutely lose the movie music. It makes it hard to hear, understand and process for those of us with a hearing loss.
Yep, its too loud. It would be fine if it was turned down a bit though imo
Kind of puts you to sleep a lil 😒
9:58 The comparison of power consumption with Alabama’s generating capacity is off by a factor of 1000. GW and MW shouldn’t be confused. It’s still a big chunk of energy, of course.
Came here to say this. Thanks
Sometimes I slip up in my research adaptations 😂 I really need a proofreader
That or Alabama was incredible power efficient😉
@@frederikschiler1394 I’m an amateur. I need a more dependable proofreader 🤣
I've been in contact with one of the people who designed the computer system managing the phased array radar. Of course there is a lot he can't disclose, but the challenges they had to deal with are interesting, and it is rather amazing they managed at all, seeing how this was still quite challenging 20 years later.
Hey Ryan, I wouldn't terribly mind the background music to actually be in the background. If I want to be able to hear you, I'd have to turn up the volume so high it hurts.
Yeah it's frigging awful
I wouldn't mind downloading the music for separate listening.
Hehehe i wouldnt mind if it was in the background not in front of your mouth
As a old Navy Radar and Fire Control Tech 75-95, I learned allot from this video.
I knew someone who worked at Raytheon. He would never say anything other than he works at Raytheon. Just said he was a manager. Never really asked about it out of respect.
This channel is one of the truly great ones with regard to history, and technology.. thanks!!
Very interesting topic.
Side note: the music mixing was a bit loud mixed with the complex topic made if difficult to follow. See 16:00 for example.
Gone before I was born, Nike missile base NY-73 was located just a mile or so from where I live. Very little remains of it, other than some barbed fencing and some concrete pads at the radar site. There is a pretty well preserved Nike site in Sandy Hook, NJ
American Radar tech actually got smaller because our computer signal processing tech allowed us to build phased arrays of smaller radar transceivers. The AEGIS system on Navy ships is the best example of a super-powerful Radar in a smaller footprint, but there are many others.
Cheers from Las Cruces NM! Not far from WSMR… my dad used to work at HELSTF in WSMR High Energy Lazer System Telemetry Facility in the 80s… aka “Star Wars”.
Thanks for another great in depth video. I always learn so much from your videos.
I’m glad to see hear (see what I did there) that you took everyone’s advice and trimmed back on the music volume on your current videos.
where do you get this stuff getting me to look forward to each of your broadcasts thank you very much God bless you
In the movie War Games, the phased array radar COBRA DANE is mentioned a couple times.
TH-cam needs to implement user controls for background music levels this is intolerable
@7:02- I am sorry but that background music seems to be swelling in intensity and is quite distracting. Another thing - the word is nu-CLEAR, NOT NUKULER. I refuse to listen to anyone who cannot differentiate.
The music is great
Great video. I did not know this existed but I knew about the Safeguard Complex but not this system. Thanks! I think this must be the place that shoots orange lasers from the Strategic Defense Initiative now. Definitely do a video on that.
While the laser tests themselves probably aren’t on the table yet, I can tell you as a channel researcher that they will be included in another video sooner rather than later
The “Over the Horizon Radar System”, of the 1980’s ~ 90’s, might be a topic of interest. Last I knew, (early 2000’s), it was still being used by military and DEA, at least in Bangor, ME..
The Russians also had one, it became famous for “mysterious signals”.
The Chain Home system is very interesting
Back in the early 60's I was somewhere around 8 years old, I can remember my parents talking about Uncle Ozzy working for Western Electric, and nobody could know what he did. This was it.
If you could, a research of hidden and secret Military Bases/Bunkers within Western Washington (near the USN Bremerton Shipyard) would be greatly appreciated.
Sadly my state does not release such information to "common citizens", because I have looked...
They wont if they are still active even for reserves storage ect.
growing up i lived very close to beale afb. i remember the sr71 and the u2 and the pavpaw
Is the phased array radar at Elgin AFB still online? I toured it in the summer of 1968 as an AFROTC cadet, and I remember that tour to this day!
America is a young nation, and some see it as a country without much history.
But for me, equally fascinated by American history as any other, its 'youth' is a massive benefit - all the locations, sites, buildings abandoned or otherwise, to me it's all so close, like it only just happened and anyone interested can put themselves right in the presence of this history and see how it all fits.
You should check out the PAVE-PAWS bace of El Dorado, Texas!!! 🤠👍
My brother was a radar technician at a Nike base in 63'.
I wonder if that was the inspiration for the sneaker company.. Must have been a cool experience for your brother though...No matter where those sweat shop purveyors got their inspiration.
Does anyone know what the etymology of “Nike” means?
I agree completely.
My grandfather was one as well in the late 50s then went into the chp
Are you serious?
Its the goddess of victory.
What filter were they using to filter out cosmic rays again?
9:47 that figure is super far off 4mw I think was mistaken for 4gw of power being 1/3rd of Georgia’s peak power consumption
No, 915 antenna roughly all using 5000w is 450,000w which would be 450kw which is 4.5mw
@@shanerorko8076 450kw is .45mw but my point is the state of Georgia uses way more than 4.5MW, they probably confused it with gw
The Soviet version looks like a chicken coop covered in tar paper😂
We have a nice phased array here in the UK at RAF Fylingdales .
I had the Nike Missile less than 1/8 of a mile away from me as I grew up all my life.,.,.,. 2 miles from Walden Pond .,.,.Ironic
There are still the remains of a horizontal missile silo at Blue Hills, the radar site is gone.
Nike sites in Marin headlands and Halfmoonbay above Mavericks. Makeout and burns
I love your channel it's like watching the history channel. Very impressive.
Thank for All the knowledge you have given to me I love to learn
Also was wondering do score your own documentary because the score on the radar platform I love could I get the score to this documentary ? Any info you could give about this score I'd appreciate
Thank you looking forward to your future works
Excellent!
From the time humans have fought, gaining information about your enemy 1st always gives you an advantage.
The computers for the North Dakota sites were a pair of CDC 7600's, by far the fastest computers of the early 1970's. They had a pair as the computers were not very reliable, they had a mean time between failures of like six hours. Couple that with the failure rate of the radar TWT's and you had an overall system uptime of maybe 50%? Not so good.
When the sites were shut down there was a big auction, some grad students at my university drove up there and bought some of the scrapped CDC 713 terminals. 16 lines of 80 characters, luxurious at the time. Not terribly well designed terminals, the monitors did not have DC restoration or high voltage regulation so inverse video was iffy at best.
Very well done however I found the volume of the background music to be distracting.
Hey enjoyed the vid and enjoy listening to the great info but please turn the background music down a little bit more, it’s not that I can’t hear you but it’s that it takes over and I’m losing what you say because I focus on the music, kinda gives a headache trying to block it out when it’s just so there.
The F35 also uses Phased Array Antennas for its radar and secure radio transmissions. We've come a long way.
The videos are great. But the background music on some sections is just obnoxiously loud compared to the speech.
Alabama only used 12MW of electricity in 2021? Did you mean 1921?
Beale Air Force base has a giant building that houses a phased array RADAR. It is named PAVEPAWS and the tower controllers caution aircraft transitioning the class D to not get too close to it.
Thanks for the history lesson on the predecessor of my old duty station: PAVE PAWS West.
Not sure why so many complain about the music. I like it.
Reading Eagle ..say Red ing. It’s in Penciltuckey. (good city to be from and makes great pretzels)
Military: "Should we try to recoup some of the Taxpayers money ?
Naaaah, Let the University have it." ...
The summer electrical capacity of Alabama is 28,911 MW. I think your power consumption comparison is a bit off.
The background soundscape (“music”) seems to something that creators believe is necessary for their videos. It would be less distracting for videos to do away with the background soundscape and focus on their narration.
Would like to hear more about the Colgate amplifiers.
Noted!
thanks bro
Still looks in good shape using Google Earth (2016 image) and surrounded by a lot of infrastructure. 32°38'2"N 106°19'52"W
Very informative video but the background music is too loud, very annoying and distracts from your narrative.
In wwii the crucial piece of radar technology brought to the US from Britain , in a suitcase , was the klystron .
man oh man this who video gave me fallout 4 vibes. maybe it was the music. but i love learning things!
Weeeee got a thing! And it’s a-called, Radio Detection and Ranging Loooove!!!
How about the history of fire control apparatus and te torpedoes it supports...?
people were led to believe they were in imminent danger because when people are afraid they are less likely to ask questions about the money being spent or lengths being gone to in order to "keep them safe "
Nothing like a klystron...used as a preamp, for the p.a. klystron. Gota think BIG!
Any object moving through the air creates turbulence….that is possible to see ….. but you have to know where to look first 😊
I'd never heard of this. I've never actually seen much on White Sands despite knowing the name.
Your Alabama power consumption comparison is off by several orders of magnitude. If this facility consumed 4 MWh, that's not 1/3 of Alabama's 2021 power consumption of 11,556,000 MWh.
Sterling Colgate sounds like a new, gimmicky version of toothpaste
Great video but please please turn down the music bed and get rid of the fake film grit. Distracting and unnecessary.
I like the music
I like your videos, but what's the point of the loud and disturbing music?
The intro and bizarre background music really detract from your work.
8:01 - - MAR-1 - - 1st phased array radar in US (R2D2’s head)
*SEE MENU (above “...more”) FOR CHAPTER + TOPIC BREAKDOWN* - - 0:46 - - Radar basics
1:03 - - *ROBERT ALEXANDER WATSON WATTS* (Scottish) laid foundation for all contemporary radar systems - - his initial creation aimed to aid pilots in challenging weather conditions (thunderstorms + heavy rain)
We had a few Nike Ajax on long island new york with nuke payload it was admitted .
Lived next door.
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@@Maldoror200 4th July extreme if it went off
The music gives it a TRON layer, awesome
American Might. I love it 🇺🇲
Two words worth a video.
Cobra Mist
OMG ( new clee ur) and the plural for apparatus is apparati.
Abandoned in Puerto Rico too . Must be obsolete technology.
Spy Balloon Defeated Them All...
😂🎉❤🎉😂
just pumping 5 million watts into the sky, impressive
Great video very interesting content need to loose the bombastic music though
Ive been working on distributed Quantum Radar system at home that makes this look like a childs toy.
The "music" is overbearing.
Also, dude, New-cue-lar is not the preferred nomenclature. New-klee-R please.
I haven't watched any of the video. The DEW line, Mid-pine tree , there was one more here in Northern Canada.
It was to detect Soviet bombers and ICBM, SLBM etc. The Yanks left a toxic mess.
All glassed!?!? From sand being nuked, not so much with other materials.
The music killed it, stopped watching.
There is no need for the background music. It is Annoying and does nothing to make the video better. Why do so many channels continue to do this?
You’d be surprised how much it enhances the experience. Movies use music throughout entire films without you really noticing but it really enhances your perception of the mood the creator is trying to portray
@itstvil4339 I bet you are a real peach to be around. Someone says they don't like something and you do your best to try and convince them that they don't know what they are talking about. I don't care what they are trying to convey, I hate it.
@@joshuabidgood2915Ok. But your opinion isn’t shared by the mayority. Yea it’s a little loud. But background music does improve the experience.
Just got to lose the music!
10/10 prefer the professional face came setup
Yes. Please. I love listening to your channel, but this music makes it impossible to feel relaxed and concentrate on the content
Looks like a deathstar
All I know; It all sounds EXPENSIVE!!!! Not hard to imagine where else we should've probably invested all that $$$. This is what happens when a countries gets hijacked via "fear" by very disgruntled individuals. So you better understand, we basically got taken ($$$) and those that oversaw it happen legally made out w/ alot of $$$..... Don't for a second think this isn't the case today. Follow the $$$...
Can you turn the foreground music down please.
Lose the background music, very distracting. I had to turn the video off !!
and could cook a full size turkey from
5 miles away in 10 minutes
Love the music.
Every time you say and you're watching its history AlwaysI replace It with and you're watching Disney Channel🤣🤣
BOISE manor? It was BAWDSEY manor. What horrible intrusive music. Without that it might be watchable, but I quit 7 minutes in.
805kW * 5 is 4 Megawatts, but the "context" about Alabama in 2021 doesn't make any sense.
Excellent bg music
Would have been better without the annoyimg 'galloping' background noise.
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Appolo ??
Umpama dia SKETSA sebuah BANDAR UDARA dan LANDASAN PACUNYA TAKE OFNYA baik navigasi bandara udara dan parkiran serta terminal penumpang bahkan terminal EUANG TUNGGU SERTA GAPE PER GAPE lebih GAMPANG baru di carikan KEUANGANNYA kebanding PESAWAT MELABRAK TERMINAL BANDARA UDARA 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️🚝🚝🚝🚝🚝🚝🚝🚝🚝🚝🚝
Do we have anything left of the missile defense system? Just in case North Korea or communist China or Russia sends some our way??
Americas SAMs are mostly Ship based, there are some Aegis Ashore systems in Hawái and Guam.
No!
Have done corea Maine we called it dino cage it was huge could see for miles. Same town got like 5 on stands look like almost golf ball . . Huge base on national Park to had store movie theater huge gym fire department
Old world blues