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> What's about the British OHR installations on Cyprus? (wb)
What are these lines in the Akrotiri plant?
06] Antenna 'could disrupt National Guard systems'By Melina Demetriou
DEFENCE minister Socratis Hasikos said yesterday it was possible that the
giant antenna Britain wants to erect at the Akrotiri salt lake could
interfere with National Guard communications systems. During a marathon
meeting of the House Defence Committee yesterday, Hasikos said:
"Considering that even a mobile phone or a radio can interfere with a
communications system, then imagine what a giant aerial can do."
The Minister said that the govt had requested information on the matter
from the British Bases which have begun groundwork on the new 190- metre
communications mast at the Akrotiri mast site. But Hasikos also said that
according to ministry experts the army's radars would not be affected by
the aerial.
DIKO deputy Marios Matsakis argued, though, that the new antenna would be
so sophisticated that "it could interfere with our radar".
"We are not talking about an ordinary aerial. It is called 'over-the
horizon radar' because it can spy on both aircraft and ground troops," he
said. Matsakis doubted that the British would ever give the govt vital
information about the capabilities of the aerial in question. Meanwhile
the British Bases administration yesterday dismissed a report by Antenna
television suggesting that a receiver site in Ayios Nikolaos in the
Famagusta District posed a threat to health.
"The installation at Ayios Nikolaos is a receiver site. It poses no risk
to health and the only txions emanating from this site are directly
comparable in terms of power and freq to those of typical
telecommunications links throughout Cyprus and indeed Western Europe," a
bases annt said. Copyright Cyprus Mail 2001
Two pictures from near there. Also satellite receiving system and a
mystery installation.
(Mauno Ritola-FIN, SW TX site shortwavesites via wwdxc BC-DX Aug 29)
British Air Force Over Horizont Radar Cyprus, Limassol rx - Famagusta tx.
OHR - maybe Akrotiri plant is the receiving part of the system.
34 36 59 N 32 56 22 E
But the other location site mentioned in the press report of 2001, [I
guess two things mixed together in the report - the txing and rxing part
!] maybe the OHR transmitting part is located near Ayios Nikolaos in
Famagusta District in more rural area - after splitting Cyprus in two
parts in 1972, see location around
35 04 48 N 33 53 53 E
two transmitting antenna rows at 30/40 degr to FSU, and
another row one towards 100 degr to Middle East (IRQ, KWT, IRN, Persian
Gulf).
But the Famagusta tx area is partly vailed on low resolution image,
BUT NOT IN TOTAL !!!.
(wb, SW TX site shortwavesites via wwdxc BC-DX Aug 29)
ECUADOR 4909.25 R. Chaskis, Otavalo, 0435-0440* UT, talks, local instR.