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DYE 4 Lead Radician Kevin Delaney enjoys the extraordinary
view from the radome catwalk. We had 'powered down' the antenna
for maintenance. Had it been operating, we might have suffered severe
microwave burns. Before powering down, prior military approval
was needed, and coverage assured at adjacent sites DYE 3 and in
Keflavik, Iceland. Kevin was (and probably still is) a strange bird.
He didn't like rules and he didn't particularly like me, so being
up there with him - illegally - was strange. Still, I appreciated
the opportunity. Kevin was a tremenous photographer who spent
much of his considerable DEW Line pay on equipment. Years
later, I invited him by e-mail to post some of his many photos on
the DEW Line pages of my site. He never replied. |
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From atop the radome, here was the view west toward
Kap Dan, the mainland village of Angmassalik (neither are in view)
and the mountains fringing the enormous inland ice cap. |
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This is the view in a similar direction
(see above) from a lower elevation on a different day, when the
peculiar condition I called ‘undercast’ crept from the
sea to surround the station and make it seem as though we were
floating atop clouds. The circumstances were rare but the effect
exquisite. |
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Here’s the undercast creeping in from a different
direction. |
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This shows the RTF building and one of our tropo
antennae bracketed the moon during a beautiful fall or spring evening.
Note the semi-darkness of the arctic twilight. |
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Another endless & indescribable sunset along
Greenland’s east coast on a nice spring or fall evening. |
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Icebergs were plentiful! |
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The sun at its customary fall and spring azimuth
over the North Altantic. |
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What can I say? It was beautiful there. |
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Ditto. The same general view from above, panned left.
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