as much as we hated the racket it produced back in the day , now it's fascinating to see these structures . imagine the amount of work it took to make these structures . I'd love to be able to hook a receiver into just one bank of these caged dipoles just to hear what we could on them. - probably would overload a common receiver. the elephant cages would be fun to play around with as well. imagine setting up a ham radio special event station on DUGA ( if the world was at peace) that would be really cool. - thanks for bringing us radio nerds this great content . I always look for your videos and watch your posting as soon as I see them. 73 to you! ..
I've seen TH-cam videos of ham operators tapping into the antenna. Although I'm not a ham myself, I've heard that it's a thrill to transmit to your radio buddies from one of the baddest antennas on the planet.
@@RevMikeBlack you've got my interest going! And yes indeed it would be excellent to transmit on the infamous woodpecker array! I've watched videos on people walking around on this array and investigating the control rooms / buildings around the town of Pripyat and needing to check their exposure during their hike. Albeit, I'll never get the chance to do that . I was a ham in the early 1980s and just a teenaged lad , my dad and I loved to listen to the numbers stations and had interference from the "Russian woodpecker" on my (even then) old Heathkit HW-101 radio. Hearing that stuff back then was really spooky.
If you really want to play with a big antenna (25m dish), you could get in touch with CAMRAS, the people operating the Dwingeloo telescope. It might be what you are looking for.
I heard a story of someone using the older curtain arrays I believe the US had. He said compared to a standard dipole it was like someone "turned a light on" and suddenly got signals clear as day from around the world.
The Mikolaiv Duga transmit site is known as Kopani. It was the site of the Soviet superpower shortwave broadcasts, some of which used 2x 500 kW transmitters in parallel for 1000 kW TPO. This site is along the main road between Kherson and Mikolaiv near the village of Luch, and takes its name from the area town of Posad-Pokrovske, which used to be called Kopani. As a matter of fact, the small railway depot nearby is still called Kopani station. Besides shortwave, the site also hosts 2 medium wave transmitters. This site has been in the middle of a bunch of war activity, so I don't know its present status.
I think you did a great job clarifying some of the common misunderstandings about the Woodpecker receiving antenna. Too bad we don't have detailed imagery of the transmitter, but much of that info may still be classified in one way or another. I've always wanted to visit the exclusion zone and see the big antenna, as well as Chernobyl itself. I think the antenna is amazing. Sadly, it looks like I may never get an opportunity due to regional instability.
You've seen the transmit antenna. It's built to handle megawatts of energy. It doesn't take MEGAWATTS of energy to RECEIVE a signal!!!!!! Receivers don't need a NUCLEAR POWER PLANT to power them!!!!!!!! The only reason it still exists is that it is in the Chernobyl nuclear radiation exclusion zone.
Dear Ringway, great stuff as always. I am of an age when the ionosphere was known as the Kennelly-Heaviside layer. Oliver Heaviside is a neglected figure in electrical communications and his contributions are on a par with with James Clerk Maxwell. I have a biography of Heaviside by Paul Nahin, which I will admit was a hard slog to get through. I have enjoyed this series on the varied intercept and transmissions sites. All the best Phil Sharp.
Dang. I had forgotten the "Kennelly" part of the Kennelly-Heaviside layer. Hence I had usually just called it "the Heaviside layer" (since the early 70's).
On a mildly related note, back in my misspent youth as a gubmint apparatchik I shared an office with a guy who'd worked on ROTHR, the U.S. Navy AN/TPS-71 Relocatable Over The Horizon Radar (ROTHR). He had (passed away several years ago), and I now have, a Fleet Surveillance Support Command bumper sticker that says: Big ROTHR Is Watching You
I've been to Pripyat and seen the structure, didn't know it was a receiver. My Dad was a maritime radio operator and had a chuckle at it, saying it used to 'annoy him to no end'.
6:00 - sadly that one is also gone, only the buildings remain, some parts of the antennas are piled up in the woods but the structure had been dismantled several years ago. Even the buildings are mostly empty, with the basement flooded most of the year and only accessible when it freezes, I have a video of this site on my channel.
Also just watched it. Awesome video thanks. Man i would love to see the array with my own eyes and go exploring. But sadly Australia is basically the other side of the planet.
Thanks Lewis, I can only imagine the amount of behind the scenes research and time you put into these and it shows in the quality of the final product. Really enjoy the videos. Thank you.
Thank you for FINALLY clarifying this "mis labeled" Duga! SO many posters keep labeling this as the Duga 3 transmitter, when it is NOT #3 and NOT a transmitter!
Thanks again Lewis. Most followers of your videos probably don't realise how much time is required for all the research you do and images you find. Well done you! Unfortunately you'll never end the BS/confusion of some aspects of the subject no matter how many videos you make.
Do we know anything about how Duga worked? From the antenna layout, it feels like a giant phased array to me, but there certainly wasn't enough DSP power in the 70s for any kind of digital steering.
It is not just featured in Call of Duty. The DUGA receive array in Pripyat is also used in the city wall in the film Divergent during the opening sequence.
Brilliant video - much of the content about the Duga radars make incorrect references to ‘Duga 3’ and ‘the Chernobyl transmitter’. There are images of the Mykolaiv Duga and the Duga-2 transmitter site pre-demolition on the internet, albeit they are quite hard to find because Google Images is full of the Duga-1 reciever site.
Probably answering my own question here. So is it possible the woodpecker sound so famous with this station is the waves bouncing back and forth between the structures and targets?
Does "Beam Forming" and the resulting very high antenna gain, work for reception as good as it does for transmitting? I suspect that it does,which make monolithic antennas like this a relic of the past.
Sweet little video Ringway, seems you have found your niche in the YT radio world over the last year or so, this and pirate radio vids have drawn us in and the channel is growing nicely... Great to see and looking forward to the future of this channel...
@@RingwayManchester my guess was also frequency’s, to gain all possible information since there will be interference from pretty much anything as it bounces it’s mhz. I’d of loved to of seen the equipment in its hay day to see exactly what it could see and how it displayed such information. This will be something we will never ever know.
You can actually go onto Google Earth and use the timelapse feature to look at old satellite imagery. Though it's blurry, you can see the shadows these Dugas cast at each of the sites
I'm trying to post a web site claiming to be a photo of the transmit antenna. But each time I include it in a comment here it disappears. I guess YT does not allow web links?
What is the reason for the pointed/conical shape of the dipoles? Klaus Landsberg's original CH 5 VHF TV transmit antenna was similarly shaped. W6XAO - now KTLA. That design and the batwing/turnstyle VHF/FM antennas were that shape for a reason, but I just don't know the reason. Thanks
Add the new to be out soon game Stalker 2 to the list! The receiver seems to have been faithfully recreated in the exclusion zone. There is a very good screen shot on the games steam page.
I immediately knew why before I even clicked on this video. There is no 3rd DUGA antenna array and there is only 2, a reciever array and a transmitting array.
Sadly, that day will be in roughly 1/4 million years if you use accepted formula of 10 times the half-life of the nasty you wish to avoid which in this case is plutonium 239 and anything that decays faster.
Thanks for the complete and thorough explaination and mapping of the duga system, certainly fascinating, if for no other reason than its massive power and documented disruption of other radio traffic world wide, including the USSR.
@@Calamity_Jack never said that the steam was cold, they boil water in a tank around the anode and as you no doubt know water at sea level (15psi) can not get hotter than 100deg C the steam isn't cold its just cooler than the tube anode. In a similar way to the coolent in your vehicle cooling system isn't cold, normal operating temperature is around 70 to 90deg C depending where in the system you measure the temperature yet this is COOLING the engine etc... go Google " the Stanley Steamer" !!!
Could you make an episode about the history and development of radio communication between ground stations and submerged into the deep submarines, please. So, no communication via satellite or through a towed floating device. Thank you.
@@RingwayManchester try asking the sub brief channel for some unclassified resources or pictures you could use. Aron and the dude from covert shores are extremely knowledgeable.
Ironically little old Australia has the JORN (Jindalee Operational Radar Network) a still functioning OTHR array that was not just superior to this but is still doing its job to this day
I want one of the “bird cage” pieces from DUGA so freaking bad. No idea why…just always have. I’ve scoured the web for any detailed information on the array. Blueprints would be amazing. Alas, I’m afraid I’ll never find them.
So you want to pick it apart and scavenge it? I think it'd be better off to see it maintained as a museum piece when the current war is over. You could always build replicas of the various parts, though, maybe even make your own scaled down version of the antenna.
@@RCAvhstape, no, I don’t think it should be scavenged. However, in the past there were talks of destroying it. If it were ever to come down, I would love to have a piece of it…as long as the radiation levels were safe. Part of my search for detailed information is to build a scale model of it. I’d also love to frame a set of blueprints and hang them on the wall.
Dear Lewis, I can never emphasise enough the amazing quality and content of your videos. I love them so much. Are your videos uploaded on any other video site? It is increasingly impossible to watch videos nowadays with the constant advert assault of TH-cam.
Fun fact Russia is using some of the parts from the Original DUGA systems and other retired radar systems on some of the new Resonance-NE radar systems that are popping up all over Russia right now. mostly the structural parts.
Love all this :) Theres is some footage on here of one of these arrays being taken down, i think they just blew it up or something. I'll see if i can find the link. In the video with of the transmitter site there is footage near the end of them up on the array. It looked as big as the one Duga 1 receiver site, but maybe only the one array. I did find a website ages ago that looked as if it was for past employees of one of these sites, a few pictures on there but mainly people don't remember seeing much else. I didn't attempt to translate any of it! Also there's a fairly new channel on here which is more about old Soviet computing of this era, i think they're going to cover some of the technology computing wise behind the Duga sites. There's some other antenna arrays that are formed in a V shape, i did find some interesting videos on those. Not sure what they're called off hand. One was open and all powered up in the control room but i think it was more for show as might of been an open day type thing. It looked similar era technology as the Duga sites but i guess everything Soviet looks old.😆
Duga does not exist anymore but we have 29B6 Kontayner systems which seem to be everywhere and spoil the bands, including amateur & broadcast, just as well as the Duga did. As for Mykolaiv radio site, it was active on mediumwave in recent years. It carried Ukrainian Radio on 549 kHz in the 1st weeks of ruZZia's invasion, afterwards it fot silenced. I don't know its current status, whether it could be brought back to operation or it is destroyed. I know another Ukrainian MW site, Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region (but just outside of the self-proclaimed "DNR") on 873 kHz, had been destroyed by rashist shelling in December last year.
I know it's real, I saw it on the internet. ;) I enjoy your content, I have to say for everything people make up. There is some very real things out there that are far more interesting. Radio is just one piece of those interesting things.
So, indeed, Duga sites existed in the past but most of them are gone. I have seen reports on the internet for many years that some sites were demolished. What took their place?
If DUGA-3 doesn't exist, then how come there are literal images of the receiver today? Also, if DUGA-3 doesn't Exist, then that would mean that the other DUGA systems are also apparently fake according to your logic, which wouldn't make any sense, especially sense you mention the other DUGA radio systems which would also be fake according to your logic, but you don't say they're fake despite saying DUGA-3 doesn't exist.
There is no such thing as Duga-3 because the structure that everybody refers to as ‘Duga-3’ is actually the Duga-1 Reciever. There was never a Duga-3, just Duga (the experimental prototype in the Mykolaiv area). Duga-1 (in the Chernobyl area) and Duga-2 (in the Komsomolsk-on-Amur area).
Have you ever seen this video of the Chernobyl one being climbed? Later you see similar parts laying on the ground the guy was climbing on earlier. Kinda scary. Wonder how much longer they'll survive th-cam.com/video/jGPjj4B_jEk/w-d-xo.html
it was used for fighter aircraft navigation and triangulation, they did not have gps and even to this day russian aircraft use something similar of a system to navigate and know where exactly they are .....cute pronunciation tho :D :D :D
@@RingwayManchester maybe, my grandpa was a USSR radar operator in Ukraine, he told me that, but he told me lots of bs as well, so I could imagine he know actually nothing about this..... But the pronunciation is still cute tho
That great. I remember the hearing the woodpecker on HF and CB bands in the US . the signal at times were S9 or even higher at times depending on propagation. The Ukraine being a receive cite makes sense. the receive only direction finding antenna array right buy. was wondering if anyone has the year the woodpecker was taken off line? 73's Boston NY,USA
nice dude! i believe this is footage of the experimental system, considering the location given in the video title. according to the Duga wiki page, the first experimental system was built just outside the town of "Mykolaiv" which is the "Mikołajowa" in the video title. in the video we also see a sign with a town name on it called "Kalynivka" which is right next to Mykolaiv and which contains the remains of the first duga experiment at this location on google maps 47.04207031794521, 32.19676450847759
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as much as we hated the racket it produced back in the day , now it's fascinating to see these structures . imagine the amount of work it took to make these structures . I'd love to be able to hook a receiver into just one bank of these caged dipoles just to hear what we could on them. - probably would overload a common receiver. the elephant cages would be fun to play around with as well. imagine setting up a ham radio special event station on DUGA ( if the world was at peace) that would be really cool. - thanks for bringing us radio nerds this great content . I always look for your videos and watch your posting as soon as I see them. 73 to you! ..
I've seen TH-cam videos of ham operators tapping into the antenna. Although I'm not a ham myself, I've heard that it's a thrill to transmit to your radio buddies from one of the baddest antennas on the planet.
@@RevMikeBlack you've got my interest going! And yes indeed it would be excellent to transmit on the infamous woodpecker array! I've watched videos on people walking around on this array and investigating the control rooms / buildings around the town of Pripyat and needing to check their exposure during their hike. Albeit, I'll never get the chance to do that . I was a ham in the early 1980s and just a teenaged lad , my dad and I loved to listen to the numbers stations and had interference from the "Russian woodpecker" on my (even then) old Heathkit HW-101 radio. Hearing that stuff back then was really spooky.
@@RevMikeBlack
I gotta watch that!!
If you really want to play with a big antenna (25m dish), you could get in touch with CAMRAS, the people operating the Dwingeloo telescope.
It might be what you are looking for.
I heard a story of someone using the older curtain arrays I believe the US had. He said compared to a standard dipole it was like someone "turned a light on" and suddenly got signals clear as day from around the world.
>does not exist
That’s exactly what a soviet agent would say
The Mikolaiv Duga transmit site is known as Kopani. It was the site of the Soviet superpower shortwave broadcasts, some of which used 2x 500 kW transmitters in parallel for 1000 kW TPO. This site is along the main road between Kherson and Mikolaiv near the village of Luch, and takes its name from the area town of Posad-Pokrovske, which used to be called Kopani. As a matter of fact, the small railway depot nearby is still called Kopani station. Besides shortwave, the site also hosts 2 medium wave transmitters. This site has been in the middle of a bunch of war activity, so I don't know its present status.
I think you did a great job clarifying some of the common misunderstandings about the Woodpecker receiving antenna. Too bad we don't have detailed imagery of the transmitter, but much of that info may still be classified in one way or another. I've always wanted to visit the exclusion zone and see the big antenna, as well as Chernobyl itself. I think the antenna is amazing. Sadly, it looks like I may never get an opportunity due to regional instability.
Never say never! But it is amazing, if you got a good head for heights! ( Which I havent) !
You've seen the transmit antenna.
It's built to handle megawatts of energy.
It doesn't take MEGAWATTS of energy to RECEIVE a signal!!!!!!
Receivers don't need a NUCLEAR POWER PLANT to power them!!!!!!!!
The only reason it still exists is that it is in the Chernobyl nuclear radiation exclusion zone.
I have found a clear image of the transmitter site on reddit
Dear Ringway, great stuff as always.
I am of an age when the ionosphere was known as the Kennelly-Heaviside layer.
Oliver Heaviside is a neglected figure in electrical communications and his contributions are on a par with with James Clerk Maxwell. I have a biography of Heaviside by Paul Nahin, which I will admit was a hard slog to get through.
I have enjoyed this series on the varied intercept and transmissions sites.
All the best
Phil Sharp.
Dang. I had forgotten the "Kennelly" part of the Kennelly-Heaviside layer.
Hence I had usually just called it "the Heaviside layer" (since the early 70's).
On a mildly related note, back in my misspent youth as a gubmint apparatchik I shared an office with a guy who'd worked on ROTHR, the U.S. Navy AN/TPS-71 Relocatable Over The Horizon Radar (ROTHR). He had (passed away several years ago), and I now have, a Fleet Surveillance Support Command bumper sticker that says:
Big ROTHR Is Watching You
I've been to Pripyat and seen the structure, didn't know it was a receiver. My Dad was a maritime radio operator and had a chuckle at it, saying it used to 'annoy him to no end'.
It WASN'T a receiver antenna.
RECEIVERS don't annoy a whole GLOBAL POPULATION of radio listeners.
@@manifold1476 it was a receiver 💀
6:00 - sadly that one is also gone, only the buildings remain, some parts of the antennas are piled up in the woods but the structure had been dismantled several years ago. Even the buildings are mostly empty, with the basement flooded most of the year and only accessible when it freezes, I have a video of this site on my channel.
Very cool! I just watched it.
Also just watched it. Awesome video thanks.
Man i would love to see the array with my own eyes and go exploring. But sadly Australia is basically the other side of the planet.
Thanks Lewis, I can only imagine the amount of behind the scenes research and time you put into these and it shows in the quality of the final product. Really enjoy the videos. Thank you.
I must agree entirely.
Thank you for FINALLY clarifying this "mis labeled" Duga!
SO many posters keep labeling this as the Duga 3 transmitter, when it is NOT #3 and NOT a transmitter!
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@@manifold1476 you mad as shit you wrong just sht up 💀
I always thought it's called Duga 1 and is the receiver. Thanks for clearing it up, that this was actually the sender for Duga 3 :)
I'm always impressed by the level of research you put into your videos. Always an interesting watch. Thank you.
Thanks so much
Thanks again Lewis. Most followers of your videos probably don't realise how much time is required for all the research you do and images you find. Well done you! Unfortunately you'll never end the BS/confusion of some aspects of the subject no matter how many videos you make.
Much appreciated! 2 days this one took 😂 cheers Ian
@Ringway Manchester (I worked at the BBC Receiving Station, Crowsley Park for 15 years and am very familiar with many of the subjects you cover.)
Hi there is a large structure which looks like this just off Nene Parkway in Peterborough
What is/was its function? Do you have a location or coordinates?
Are both structures at duga-1 RX for receiving or is the smaller lattice for something else?
not quite sure.. but what i heard, both served as receiver antenna.
just working at different frequencies (?)
I heard for a different frequency band.
Do we know anything about how Duga worked? From the antenna layout, it feels like a giant phased array to me, but there certainly wasn't enough DSP power in the 70s for any kind of digital steering.
It is not just featured in Call of Duty. The DUGA receive array in Pripyat is also used in the city wall in the film Divergent during the opening sequence.
Thanks
No thank you!!
have you ever looked up the Tyrolean Music Station, where it would often play yodelling music, it's sign is G01
Brilliant video - much of the content about the Duga radars make incorrect references to ‘Duga 3’ and ‘the Chernobyl transmitter’.
There are images of the Mykolaiv Duga and the Duga-2 transmitter site pre-demolition on the internet, albeit they are quite hard to find because Google Images is full of the Duga-1 reciever site.
Probably answering my own question here.
So is it possible the woodpecker sound so famous with this station is the waves bouncing back and forth between the structures and targets?
Does "Beam Forming" and the resulting very high antenna gain, work for reception as good as it does for transmitting? I suspect that it does,which make monolithic antennas like this a relic of the past.
Thank you for the clear and concise explanation and description of the Duga sites and the naming scheme.
Peaceful Skies.
Sweet little video Ringway, seems you have found your niche in the YT radio world over the last year or so, this and pirate radio vids have drawn us in and the channel is growing nicely... Great to see and looking forward to the future of this channel...
Any idea why the Duga-1 receiver has 2 structures? One colossal one and then one about half the size? 5:39
I’m not sure, could be one is for lower frequencies and the other is for higher. Eg 3-10mhz and 10-30mhz
@@RingwayManchester my guess was also frequency’s, to gain all possible information since there will be interference from pretty much anything as it bounces it’s mhz.
I’d of loved to of seen the equipment in its hay day to see exactly what it could see and how it displayed such information. This will be something we will never ever know.
@@DSPrints_that’s the hard part of oth technology, you literally are looking for the needle in a haystack full of noise 😅
@@biggeorge191 no lol they aren’t placed right next to each other.
George you’re clueless mate
6:38 Huh, the place is still used by the air defences. That's an S-300P battery.
You can actually go onto Google Earth and use the timelapse feature to look at old satellite imagery. Though it's blurry, you can see the shadows these Dugas cast at each of the sites
If only old spysat pictures were public so we could see those behemoths properly. Hehe
I'm trying to post a web site claiming to be a photo of the transmit antenna. But each time I include it in a comment here it disappears. I guess YT does not allow web links?
Drop me an email ringwaymanchester@mail.com
We always called it "Steel Yard".
Shiey has an UrbEx video where he climbs it.
I was ever fascinated by Duga 3 antennas
Hi Lewis, great video as always! Love this series and the balance between video length and information is perfect!
Keep it up!
Every time I see pictures of the Chernobyl site I want to repurpose one of those 40m conical dipoles that are going to waste
What is the reason for the pointed/conical shape of the dipoles? Klaus Landsberg's original CH 5 VHF TV transmit antenna was similarly shaped. W6XAO - now KTLA. That design and the batwing/turnstyle VHF/FM antennas were that shape for a reason, but I just don't know the reason. Thanks
Add the new to be out soon game Stalker 2 to the list! The receiver seems to have been faithfully recreated in the exclusion zone. There is a very good screen shot on the games steam page.
👏👍Nice one Lewis cheers
oh it all makes sense now
I’m loving this content. I always wondered where DUGA-3 was and we finally know.
I immediately knew why before I even clicked on this video. There is no 3rd DUGA antenna array and there is only 2, a reciever array and a transmitting array.
That makes two of us
Thanks and cheers from the Midwest U.S.
Maybe one day it will be safe to go and see it
Sadly, that day will be in roughly 1/4 million years if you use accepted formula of 10 times the half-life of the nasty you wish to avoid which in this case is plutonium 239 and anything that decays faster.
Thanks Lewis, very interesting!
Too bad the transmitter sites aren't still intact somewhat, so we could see what the antennas looked like....
The receiver is all that’s what’s remanding
great video
“Cobra Mist” did 😀In the UK
This video proves they are hiding Duga 3 from us.
Thanks for the complete and thorough explaination and mapping of the duga system, certainly fascinating, if for no other reason than its massive power and documented disruption of other radio traffic world wide, including the USSR.
*_"You understand, Captain, that this mission does not exist, nor will it ever exist."_*
*-- APOCALYPSE NOW [1979]*
With an Antenna like this you can hear radio from other galaxies - i hope the play better music 😄
These sites are amazing
DIG-DUGA LF antennas linked to a world wide underground network of arcade machines.
I loved that game
@@yankeeclipper4326 heh, my son has just returned from Japan with a game system - we are enjoying the retro games and hopefully find a dig-dug clone!
I would give anything to have seen the transmission gear , monster Soviet steam cooled pulse Vacuum tubes for sure
Steam... cooled?
@@Calamity_Jack yes
@@T2D.SteveArcs Huh. Never heard of cold steam. New one on me!
@@Calamity_Jack never said that the steam was cold, they boil water in a tank around the anode and as you no doubt know water at sea level (15psi) can not get hotter than 100deg C the steam isn't cold its just cooler than the tube anode. In a similar way to the coolent in your vehicle cooling system isn't cold, normal operating temperature is around 70 to 90deg C depending where in the system you measure the temperature yet this is COOLING the engine etc... go Google " the Stanley Steamer" !!!
@@Calamity_Jack and by the way if you subject water to a Vacuum it will boil at room temperature.. cold steam🤷♂️
Could you make an episode about the history and development of radio communication between ground stations and submerged into the deep submarines, please. So, no communication via satellite or through a towed floating device. Thank you.
Im trying but it’s a toughie
@@RingwayManchester try asking the sub brief channel for some unclassified resources or pictures you could use. Aron and the dude from covert shores are extremely knowledgeable.
@@RingwayManchester hey thanks for the info i stand corrected check out the Bionerd23 vids for closeups.
The Duga looks like a very large center fed "Lazy H Curtain array" HRS style
I wonder why Ukraine was chosen as the place for the DUGA1 and not somewhere in European Russia...? Does anyone know? Im just curious
Its neat that today we can look over the 1900s and see what use to be really up back in the day
Great video, again. I was so tempted to ask "What about Duga-4 and Duga-5?": but thought it would be pushing the joke too far.....
Nice video 👍
Now you tell us doh.cheers sir have a good week.
Ironically little old Australia has the JORN (Jindalee Operational Radar Network) a still functioning OTHR array that was not just superior to this but is still doing its job to this day
Ah, but that's what they _want_ you to think! :p
I want one of the “bird cage” pieces from DUGA so freaking bad. No idea why…just always have. I’ve scoured the web for any detailed information on the array. Blueprints would be amazing. Alas, I’m afraid I’ll never find them.
So you want to pick it apart and scavenge it? I think it'd be better off to see it maintained as a museum piece when the current war is over. You could always build replicas of the various parts, though, maybe even make your own scaled down version of the antenna.
@@RCAvhstape, no, I don’t think it should be scavenged. However, in the past there were talks of destroying it. If it were ever to come down, I would love to have a piece of it…as long as the radiation levels were safe.
Part of my search for detailed information is to build a scale model of it. I’d also love to frame a set of blueprints and hang them on the wall.
@@83Yankee A working scale model would be cool. Good mad scientist's toy for your backyard.
@@RCAvhstape, I’d be happy with a non-functional model made from plastic on a diorama. Lol
Duga1,2 did exist at one point
But it doesn’t exist anymore
So there were four, and the numbers go up to "2". Cool.
Those things are awe inspiring and I'm sure the reason for the first couple of RBMKs have you looked at the dates concerned
Very Cool. Thanks Again RM. Take Care and Radio On*****
Dear Lewis, I can never emphasise enough the amazing quality and content of your videos. I love them so much. Are your videos uploaded on any other video site? It is increasingly impossible to watch videos nowadays with the constant advert assault of TH-cam.
Soviet era ~ Let’s have fun with concrete, lots of it😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🎉🎉
Very great video sir! Thanks again for creating quality content.
Another great video Lewis!
Its 2 and thats the receiver a old one and a new one. Never seen anyone call it 3
These videos are a great window into the creepy tech behind the cold war :)
Just to get this clear for me: 'Duga-3' is, in fact, the receiver for Duga-2.
🍌🤔
These have all been fascinating. Thank you!
Fun fact Russia is using some of the parts from the Original DUGA systems and other retired radar systems on some of the new Resonance-NE radar systems that are popping up all over Russia right now. mostly the structural parts.
I very much doubt that
amazing
Love all this :)
Theres is some footage on here of one of these arrays being taken down, i think they just blew it up or something. I'll see if i can find the link. In the video with of the transmitter site there is footage near the end of them up on the array. It looked as big as the one Duga 1 receiver site, but maybe only the one array.
I did find a website ages ago that looked as if it was for past employees of one of these sites, a few pictures on there but mainly people don't remember seeing much else. I didn't attempt to translate any of it!
Also there's a fairly new channel on here which is more about old Soviet computing of this era, i think they're going to cover some of the technology computing wise behind the Duga sites.
There's some other antenna arrays that are formed in a V shape, i did find some interesting videos on those. Not sure what they're called off hand. One was open and all powered up in the control room but i think it was more for show as might of been an open day type thing. It looked similar era technology as the Duga sites but i guess everything Soviet looks old.😆
Duga does not exist anymore but we have 29B6 Kontayner systems which seem to be everywhere and spoil the bands, including amateur & broadcast, just as well as the Duga did.
As for Mykolaiv radio site, it was active on mediumwave in recent years. It carried Ukrainian Radio on 549 kHz in the 1st weeks of ruZZia's invasion, afterwards it fot silenced. I don't know its current status, whether it could be brought back to operation or it is destroyed. I know another Ukrainian MW site, Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region (but just outside of the self-proclaimed "DNR") on 873 kHz, had been destroyed by rashist shelling in December last year.
Horizon is 40Km, thus the sender n receiver can Not be 37km apart…
Don’t be silly
The problem is people getting all their information from video games and TH-cam videos and doing no research of their own.
I know it's real, I saw it on the internet. ;)
I enjoy your content, I have to say for everything people make up. There is some very real things out there that are far more interesting. Radio is just one piece of those interesting things.
Thats because it's really called the brain scorcher
Never will?
So, indeed, Duga sites existed in the past but most of them are gone. I have seen reports on the internet for many years that some sites were demolished. What took their place?
One thing that is interesting is what technology they used for those circular arrays. Not the actual recivers but the analysis..
If DUGA-3 doesn't exist, then how come there are literal images of the receiver today? Also, if DUGA-3 doesn't Exist, then that would mean that the other DUGA systems are also apparently fake according to your logic, which wouldn't make any sense, especially sense you mention the other DUGA radio systems which would also be fake according to your logic, but you don't say they're fake despite saying DUGA-3 doesn't exist.
If you watched the video you’d understand. I can’t be any clearer
It’s all fact by the way. Complete fact, nothing secret, all the info is out there if you research.
There is no such thing as Duga-3 because the structure that everybody refers to as ‘Duga-3’ is actually the Duga-1 Reciever. There was never a Duga-3, just Duga (the experimental prototype in the Mykolaiv area). Duga-1 (in the Chernobyl area) and Duga-2 (in the Komsomolsk-on-Amur area).
Have you ever seen this video of the Chernobyl one being climbed? Later you see similar parts laying on the ground the guy was climbing on earlier. Kinda scary. Wonder how much longer they'll survive
th-cam.com/video/jGPjj4B_jEk/w-d-xo.html
The Arecibo radiotelecope was also a project of over the horizon radar, but by the USA
it was used for fighter aircraft navigation and triangulation, they did not have gps and even to this day russian aircraft use something similar of a system to navigate and know where exactly they are .....cute pronunciation tho :D :D :D
You couldn’t be more wrong on all of the above
@@RingwayManchester maybe, my grandpa was a USSR radar operator in Ukraine, he told me that, but he told me lots of bs as well, so I could imagine he know actually nothing about this..... But the pronunciation is still cute tho
That great. I remember the hearing the woodpecker on HF and CB bands in the US . the signal at times were S9 or even higher at times depending on propagation. The Ukraine being a receive cite makes sense. the receive only direction finding antenna array right buy. was wondering if anyone has the year the woodpecker was taken off line? 73's Boston NY,USA
you Duga video :)
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Not quite sure which site this was. Video of an array coming down!
th-cam.com/video/p3qLNzb_PpY/w-d-xo.html
nice dude!
i believe this is footage of the experimental system, considering the location given in the video title.
according to the Duga wiki page, the first experimental system was built just outside the town of "Mykolaiv" which is the "Mikołajowa" in the video title.
in the video we also see a sign with a town name on it called "Kalynivka" which is right next to Mykolaiv and which contains the remains of the first duga experiment at this location on google maps 47.04207031794521, 32.19676450847759
Sounds like wishful thinking. Meaning that they wish that Duga 3 existed, so they pretend that it does.
I thought the one near chernobyl was the transmitter, purposely located to supply the huge power needed.
Nope, only the receiver
Can you do a story on the Australian Jindalee Over the Horizon Radar (JORN)... 😊
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I thought Duga system was located in Ukraine