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Watch live aerial view of the California wildfires on Saturday (11 January) as the deadly blazes continue to rage. Officials continue to battle the stubborn blazes eating up more than 35,000 acres ...
NEXRAD or Nexrad (Next-Generation Radar) is a network of 159 high-resolution S-band Doppler weather radars operated by the National Weather Service (NWS), an agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) within the United States Department of Commerce, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) within the Department of Transportation, and the U.S. Air Force within the ...
This feed shows aerials over San Francisco Bay after northern California was hit by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake late Thursday morning (5 December), prompting a tsunami warning. The quake struck ...
The KXTV/KOVR Tower (also known as the Sacramento Joint Venture Tower) is a 2,049 ft (625 m) communications tower in Walnut Grove, California, United States. Built in 2000, it is the tallest structure in California , second-tallest structure in the United States , third-tallest guyed mast in the world (as of 2001), and the eighth-tallest ...
The squadron was assigned to the "Fort MacArthur AI" [6] (Army Installation) and operated the San Pedro Hill radars which included a General Electric AN/FPS-6B Radar and an Avco AN/FPS-26 Radar for height finding. In 1964, the station's Westinghouse AN/FPS-27 Radar was installed (removed 1969) and the AN/FPS-6B was modified to an AN/FPS-90.
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Emblem of the 751st Radar Squadron Photo of the Station in 2013. Mount Laguna Air Force Station (ADC ID: P-76, NORAD ID: Z-76) is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located 24.3 miles (39.1 km) north-northeast of Tecate, California .
In 1955 the Air Force added an AN/FPS-3 search radar to the facility. During the following year, an AN/GPS-3 search radar was also added. 1958 saw the addition of an AN/MPS-14 long-range height-finder radar. In 1958, plans were made to relocate the 669th AC&W Sq from Santa Rosa Island to the mainland.