An eerie "Over-the-horizon" radar in the shadow of

Sat Apr 04, 2009 9:06 am

Hope this isn't old news (I did a search) but I was reading up about Chernobyl the other day (as you do) and I spotted this - http://www.chornobyl.in.ua/en/chernobyl-2.htm . A huge metallic structure hidden in the woods nearby.

I also discovered some unexpected information. Nature in the Zone of Alienation near the reactor "seems to have not only survived, but flourished due to significant reduction of human impact. The zone has become a 'Radiological Reserve', a classic example of an involuntary park" (from Wikipedia).

In a bizarre way, 20 years after the accident, Chernobyl has become a beautiful place out in the country.

Last edited by philtr on Sat Apr 04, 2009 10:06 am, edited 1 time in total.

Sat Apr 04, 2009 9:49 am

what an eyesore! interesting read, thanks for the other links provided with it.

Sat Apr 04, 2009 4:37 pm

woah! that's cool. thanks for sharing, very very interesting stuff =)

Sat Apr 04, 2009 4:47 pm

sweet find! i love surfing around informational websites. wikipedia is awesome and convenient but it doesn't have the character or the personality you encounter when you're just cruising around the internet looking at pages

Sat Apr 04, 2009 4:49 pm

Awesome! Amazing that were still finding references after all those years :shock:

Sat Apr 04, 2009 4:51 pm

Who wants to add the info to the bocpages? http://bocpages.org/wiki/Over_The_Horizon_Radar

go go go

Sat Apr 04, 2009 6:49 pm

Great find Philtr!

Thanks for sharing!
I guess BoC refers to this with the track 'over the horizon radar'.

Sat Apr 04, 2009 8:33 pm

Very innaresting!!!

Sat Apr 04, 2009 10:47 pm

I wouldn't call that an eyesore, it's quite impressive.

Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:16 am

FASCINATING

Mon Apr 06, 2009 6:44 pm

cool find.

Fri Mar 12, 2010 8:59 pm

There is a 3-D model of this on Google Earth now. Very impressive it is too. Was snooping around Chernobyl/Pripyat (as you do) and saw it off in the distance. At first I thought it was a graphics glitch! Check it out at:

51°18'23.29"N / 30° 4'3.86"E

I'd seen photos of this thing before, but I never realised it was so close to Chernobyl. :shock:

Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:33 pm

Nice work Finding this. Its give me some ideas about what music to make for a chernobyl documentary shammen delly are doing which i cant wait now. Fingers crossed the doc gets the thumbs up first

Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:02 pm

ShammenDelly wrote:Nice work Finding this. Its give me some ideas about what music to make for a chernobyl documentary shammen delly are doing which i cant wait now. Fingers crossed the doc gets the thumbs up first

Hey - keep us updated on this please!

Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:22 pm

fascinating stuff!
kind of sinister in a way for some reason as well

Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:37 pm

fascinating, thank for sharing

also interesting http://www.dirjournal.com/info/abandone ... the-world/

Sat Mar 13, 2010 12:20 pm

great find - i had no idea of the origins of that track title. fascinating..

Mon Mar 15, 2010 10:25 pm

That's probably the array responsible for the infamous "Woodpecker" signal on ~7000 kHz which was a blight on the shortwaves back in the 1980s...

and which I am sure is the inspiration for the lads' paean to remote radio-detection.

ah, yes, just found this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Woodpecker

Mon Mar 15, 2010 10:32 pm

Some more info here:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/steel-yard.htm

And a recording here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2B8J-RrVT8

Tue Mar 16, 2010 7:49 am

Correct-a-mundo!

EDIT: the 'Woodpecker' or 'Buzzer' can also be heard on the Conet Project. Disk4, track 32.