Radar installation

[PA39]

A pax friend asked me the other afternoon what is the radar instal situated just s/w of Yred. All these years and I've never noticed it....but its there as you can see it when driving west through Rothwell.

PS. True confessions!! I was NEVER a good VFR pilot, all towns, roads rail silo's etc etc looked the same to me. I obtained my IR very early in my career and even when instructing was always pulling radials/dme or a bearing off somewhere!!! :(

[Triple Captain]

I dont have the answer to your question, sorry! But there is also another radar installation beside the M7 a few clicks north of the old Hoxton park 'drome. ANy idea what this one is for?

[stevep64]

They're not talking about the 4QR mast at Bald Hills are they?

[PA39]

No Steve, the insrallation looks like a tracking or wx radar but not a doppler. There are 3 or 4 dishes with one big mother.

[OZBUSDRIVER]

Bit more specific...are you looking at the astronomy domes at one of the high schools in Rothwell? One school has a full on radio telescope.

[Lasiorhinus]

Someone post a photo!

[Going Nowhere]

I think this is the one, just south of Anzac Ave.

http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-27.217197,153.054678&z=19&t=k&nmd=20111103

Found the other 4 + 1, a bit further North near Ningi, just off Bribie Island Road.

http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-27.056498,153.063025&z=17&t=h&nmd=20111103

[Jabawocky]

The little one south of YRED is most likely a private antenna. What for?? :confused:

The array at Ningi near Bribie Island is the old OTC installation or Telstra now. From there a lot of Overseas Telecommunications Company traffic was processed.

It was allso the sight for "Brisbane Radio" the Marine equivelant for BNE CEN if you like. I used to have marine skeds's logged and you could actualy use the radio for radio-telephone connections. Not very private but they worked great. Latter in the piece you could make an automated call through there via VHF and only half the call was public :). Pre mobile phones, but they had repeaters up the coast so BN Radio was easy to get and so were phone calls. Was a great radio :ok:

[PA39]

I haven't seen them properly but the High School astronomy domes might be going close :O

[peuce]

Haven't been there for a while, but isn't there an SSR Radar on top of Redcliffe Hospital?

[Jabawocky]

I think that is for the Port of Brisbane....but could be wrong.

[Jamair]

Jaba yer not wrong. Decrepit perhaps, but not wrong....:E

[nitpicker330]

It's been a while but I do recall seeing a Big bunch of Sat receivers near there, certainly not a Radar site!!

Yawn.......:rolleyes: