HF Military Antenna Site

[simpilo]

This is a video post from a video I found on YouTube. First time I saw it I was thinking. Hmmm, that might be the home of "Skyking". I can't prove that. It's just speculation. I don't remember hearing the uploader telling where it is actually. The site markings are ambiguous. May we speculate?
(The video is over 5 years old the site might or might not exist still.)

 

[nd5y]

It sure looks like the Air Force site near Omaha (41.3464, -96.2442) but there are probably other sites like that in other corn growing areas.

 

[TerryPavlick]

It sure looks like the Air Force site near Omaha (41.3464, -96.2442) but there are probably other sites like that in other corn growing areas.

Try this link
Rural communications site has global mission > Offutt Air Force Base > Display

Terry

 

[iMONITOR]

Try this link
Rural communications site has global mission > Offutt Air Force Base > Display

Terry

Interesting article. Seems like they're giving out a lot of what should be classified information! I find the two quotes below are almost funny if not so serious.

"A lot of people don't even know we're out here," said Brady Bach, a telecommunications specialist with the 55th Strategic Communications Squadron. "Even members of the communications squadron on base have no idea where we're located a lot of the time." ah...we do now!

"I have had folks tell me that this place is the Air Force's best kept secret," Mr. Swigert said, "and I would have to agree." ah...not anymore!

 

[nd5y]

"I have had folks tell me that this place is the Air Force's best kept secret," Mr. Swigert said, "and I would have to agree." ah...not anymore!

Their real best kept secret was the space surveillance system that they took over from the Navy and later shut down.

 

[Hooligan]

The poor video footage is complimented by equally poor commentary. But yes, it's the Offutt AFB HF transmit & control annex near Elkhorn. One of the orginal USAF Global Communications (GLOBECOM) stations, with the HF receive annex on the grounds of the former Scribner Army Airfield. As for the rumored "secret bunker," there wasn't one at Elkhorn, but for a while in the early stages of the Cold War -- after HQ Strategic Air Command relocated from Andrews AFB to Offutt AFB but before the SAC Underground Command Center became operational in 1955, the Scribner location had "Site-X" -- an emergency relocation site for HQ SAC. It wasn't hardened, used a lot of the flimsy old WW-II AAF wooden structures and operated under a minor cover as an Ionosphere Research facility (which helped explain the HF antenna arrays). Back then, SAC also had an HF comms site out next to the Nebraska Ordnance Plant in Mead, as GLOBECOM was general-purpose USAF & SAC wanted/needed their own global HF command & control network.