Originally Posted by
ZOOKER
Mooncrest,
I remember doing a liaison visit to LBA.....We came via Pole Hill, by road, and took pictures of the DVOR on the way. The VCR was functioning normally, but Approach was being 're-furbished'.....Everything was balanced on card-tables, with lots of exposed wires hanging out of things.......Early 1980s.
That might have been a bit later than you think ZOOKER. When I first visited LBA tower in the summer of 1988 the radar room had only recently been commissioned and much of the equipment was sitting on tables. Two years later a proper job was done and the tables were gone. Since then radar has undergone another refurb with new processing systems and large flat Dell PC monitors for the radar displays. It's very swish. I think there is a time-lapse video of the installation on YouTube.