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The upper white section of the tower is actually a plexiglass radome, concealing various microwave and UHF radio antennas. CARTWHEEL and its cousins were decommissioned around 1990. Most of the towers
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Despite CARTWHEEL being located in the middle of a residential neighborhood in a busy city and staffed by military personnel, officials went to great lengths to conceal the true purpose of these tower
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Obsolete secret infrastructure like CARTWHEEL tower, only revealed decades later, intrigues me not just for its scale and design, but also for the obvious question it gives rise to. If this stuff effe
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Local of Naarm/Melbourne. Most likely autistic. Certainly suffering from ME/CFS (#mecfs) since 2010. Software engineer & former research chemist (single crystal X-ray crystallography, coordination chemistry). Fan of # Americana , # PsychedelicRock , # StarTrek , # DoctorWho , # StarWars etc. Enjoys long walks off short piers. He/him. Bluesky: @pewnack.bsky.social (but hardly ever use it)
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I'm assuming the current secret physical infrastructure probably only needs to be very small and thus much more easily concealed.
Additionally, I'm gonna assume much of the current secret infrastructure is software rather than hardware.
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