Naval antenna ID

[hfxChris]

I guess this is the right section... technically this is a receive antenna I'm curious about

NRS Mill Cove is the Canadian Navy's east coast receive site. I happened to be in the area today and took a quick drive up. Of course since this was unplanned, I didn't have my camera and couldn't take any half decent shots.
This Google Maps view shows two cleared circular areas...the south area is your typical log periodics and conical monopoles. The north area however...
https://www.google.ca/maps/@44.56914,-64.1008387,1340m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
As you can see there's a small white shack in the middle, with a circular antenna structure around it. The wires are supported by small posts maybe 4 - 5 feet high. There were no tall masts, everything was just a few feet off the ground. It was difficult to tell from the ground level (and built up vegetation) but the entire cleared area was full of these short posts, possibly radiating outward from the center.

Any thoughts on what type of antenna this may be, and what it's for?

 

[Citywide173]

VLF array for the subs maybe?

 

[k1agh]

Yeah I think that is a vlf site, need a street view pic to verify.

 

[hfxChris]

Yeah, no street view out in the middle of the woods I'll have to try and get a picture sometime.

 

[invergordon]

I would hazard a guess at a DF site.

There is one near where I live at Tangimoana (https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Ta...041873f391f67:0x500ef6143a30880!6m1!1e1?hl=en) used by the countries spy agency and looks very similar.

If you google "HF DF array" and view the Images you may be able to decide if this is the sort of thing you saw.

Michael
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[sigint1]

Possibly related

Mill Cove

 

[krokus]

The towers look too short for a VLF or HF DF site.

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[k1agh]

I found it weird its in line with the VLF station in Cutler Maine.

 

[k1agh]

NRS HLX Site Mill Cove
1062 Parkwood Drive
RR 2, Hubbards, Nova Scotia

Its a Naval Radio Section of the Dept of National Defence. It is operated remotely from CFB Halifax.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFS_Mill_Cove

 

[hfxChris]

Possibly related

Mill Cove

Yep that's the site. The article on that page was written when the site opened back in the 60s, and it mentions the dipoles and monopoles, as well as a "Technical Materials Corp. vertical whip covering 15 to 300 kHz" but it doesn't say anything about this large array-like antenna. It could've been built since the station opened.

The towers look too short for a VLF or HF DF site.

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I agree, the "towers" are just short wooden posts maybe 3 or 5 feet in height.

 

[hfxChris]

According to this:
http://www.mwlist.org/vlf.php
They do have a transmitter on 73.6 kHz. Oh and by the way, I've got a massive signal showing on 73.6 - must be them.

 

[majoco]

Looks like it used to be a "wullenweber" HF DF antenna system, aka the CDAA system. Google for pix.

I have one near me.

(Now I see Mike's post - apologies!)

 

[hfxChris]

Looks like it used to be a "wullenweber" HF DF antenna system, aka the CDAA system. Google for pix.

I have one near me.

(Now I see Mike's post - apologies!)

When I google that, the pictures I see all have masts significantly taller than the 3-5 feet this one has..

 

[krokus]

Looks like it used to be a "wullenweber" HF DF antenna system, aka the CDAA system. Google for pix.

I have one near me.

(Now I see Mike's post - apologies!)

The Wullen-Weber antenna structures that I have been around have been much taller than those supports appear to be.

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