Old Radar Base in the Keweenaw.

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Pizza Man

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I was reading about the cell tower in the Keweenaw and brought back a place we went to up there years ago. First time was in 1979-1980.
How many remember the old radar base up there??
We use to stop up there on our way from Mohawk (stayed at the motel there) to Copper Harbor. Back then, you could get in and have a few drinks and something to eat.
 
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ezra

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I have never been up there:rolleyes: it is not legal .
I was under the impression they put cams up there some time back and if u were to visit it would be wise to put masking tape over your numbers .
I have not been in at least 5 yrs.
If I was the state of MI or a local club I would be pushing hard to gsa to sign it over . the gsa has been dumping these types of sites for some time now for pretty cheep . if targeted letter campaign went out to gsa before it hit the auction block I guarantee it could be had for a song
 
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Pizza Man

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Last time I was up there would have been in the early 80's. It was still open for food and drinks. Then we went up 2 or 3 years later and it was closed.
 
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frnash

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More about the "Old Radar Base"

FWIW, (click →) Pasty.NET Internet service in the Copper Country employs Wireless DSL (DSL = Direct Stationary Link), which includes a major relay located at the "Old Radar Base" on Mt. Horace Greeley which passes their broadband signal from Calumet to Gratiot Lake, Gay, Lac Labelle, Brockway Mountain and all the points served from there (Copper Harbor to Eagle River). See more (click →) here.

snoluver1 said:
I havent been up there for a few years but last i heard the property was bought by some kind of youth camp?
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The "Keweenaw Academy", an educational facility for troubled youth, was closed over a decade ago.

The last I heard, the property belongs to Keweenaw County. It is "off limits", and yes indeedy (click →) the Keweenaw County Sheriff has a remotely controlled camera on the building where the radar dome was located. That camera can pan and tilt to get a view of most of the buildings on the property.

And incidentally, Pasty.net provides a number of (click →) Wi-Fi access points around the Keweenaw as well.
If you're really into it, you can find much more about the Calumet AFS a.k.a. the "Old Radar Base" (click →) here. There's much info from the Air Defense Radar museum; scroll down to see the note:
"By Scott, Illinois on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 06:55 pm:"
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… but it's a bit tricky to get to, see also my note:
"By FRNash/PHX, AZ on Saturday, May 28, 2005 - 10:13 pm:"​
for all the gory details.
 
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Tracker

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those bases were for the ELF PROJECT and PROJECT SANGUINE...been there on sleds many times and the remote location stations in the woods too. all those fenced in areas out in the middle of nowhere and some are no bigger than a garden plot in the city, are those as well...I believe it became HAARP and MINOS of today...which is all...FASTER THAN LIGHT TRAVEL EXPERIMENTS...some reading incase you interested of whats what today in science of the north woods....LOL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Sanguine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_low_frequency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINOS


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_anomaly
 
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mezz

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This base was an Air Force Radar Base. To the best of my knowledge, no connection to Extremely Low Frequency communication which was a Navy system. As Nash stated, it is owned by Keweenaw County & is off limits of which unfortunately, that is due to the vandalism done over the years which is too bad, it use to be a cool place to visit.-Mezz
 
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Pizza Man

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Mezz, I agree. We use to make that a "must stop" as the people were happy to see us and the money we spent at their club.
 
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Tracker

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mezz said:
This base was an Air Force Radar Base. To the best of my knowledge, no connection to Extremely Low Frequency communication which was a Navy system. As Nash stated, it is owned by Keweenaw County & is off limits of which unfortunately, that is due to the vandalism done over the years which is too bad, it use to be a cool place to visit.-Mezz
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yes it was all related unbeknowingst to most as part of the DEW and SAGE systems...Distant Early Warning line and Semi Automatic Ground Enviroment...all part of NORAD...you boys were and are still....ON THE FRONT LINES....LOL...so keep holdin the fort down fer us all and thanx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distant_Early_Warning_Line

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Automatic_Ground_Environment

the story is in here it joined SAGE in 1960

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calumet_Air_Force_Station
 
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jmvette427

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The Clam Lake facility, which served as the test site and was originally called the Wisconsin Test Facility (***) *** thats funny !
 
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ezra

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jmvette427 said:
The Clam Lake facility, which served as the test site and was originally called the Wisconsin Test Facility (***) *** thats funny !
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where is the clam lake site? I have spent a lot of time in those woods and never stumbled on anything resembling the MI site . ball park it between what roads ?
 
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harvest1121

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I remeber a few years back being in the Hayward area was a big fenced in area of green buildings. Did not look like anyone was there but everything was plowed and kept nice.
 
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frnash said:
Does this help? (click →) Wikipedia: Project Sanguine.

Here's much more detail:
(click →) US Navy Fact Sheet "Extremely Low Frequency Transmitter Site Clam Lake, WI". (PDF)
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hey...is there an ECHO in here? I thought I posted that a couple o posts ago...LOL



on a side note for those up to speed here's a ....TIDBIT....harvest1121 this might help with that question



The NuMI tunnels slant downward because the neutrino beam is aimed at the Soudan Mine in northern Minnesota, where the MINOS Far Detector is located. The neutrinos follow a line through the sphere of the earth, passing under Wisconsin and a bit of Lake Superior.
The NuMI tunnels took 2 years to excavate and 1 year to outfit. Most of the length of the tunnels were dug by a 22ft diameter tunnel boring machine.

info here
http://www-numi.fnal.gov/MinosAreas/layout.html
 
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