CHAPTER Il, SECTION 3
STATION:
PURPOSE:
SITE:
USER:
1528
High-Speed Photography
George
DOD-15
PARTICIPATION: 10, 11, 12, 13 and 18
CONSTRUCTION: 12-21-55/5-5-56
OCCUPANCY:
3-12-56
The work for this station consisted of re-
habilitating and modifying existing CASTLE
Station 1342. The station was a photo bunker
of massive concrete construction, which was
equipped with dehumidification units and had
a steel drop blast door with an opening that led
to a series of mirrors which reflected images
down a chimney to cameras. Modifications in-
cluded constructing a new photographic dark
room, adding camera mount beams, deepening
the concrete ledge in the chimney slot, providing an electric hoist, installing a 500-gallon
fuel storage tank, and supplementing the air
conditioning and electrical systems. The large
camera shutter door was modified to eliminate
the bounce at closing and also so that it could
be operated from within the station. Power requirements were 10 KW, 120/208-volt, 3-phase.
Minus 15 minutes, minus 1 minute, minus 15
seconds, and minus 1 second timingsignals were
required.
STATIONS:
PURPOSE:
SITES:
USER:
PARTICIPATION:
1540.01 and 1540.02
Cloud Tracking Cameras
William and Wilma
DOD-15
All Bikini and Eniwetok
Events
CONSTRUCTION: 2-17-56/5-10-56
These stations were 5’ x 5’x 4”-thick concrete pads for mounting User-furnished theodolites. No power or timing signals were re-
STATION:
PURPOSE:
SITE:
USER:
1580.01
Weather Radar
Elmer
DOD-15
PARTICIPATION: All Eniwetok Events
Station 1580.01 was a 4’ x 8’ wooden plat-
form mounted on wooden poles, 40 feet above
the ground. A User-furnished radar unit was
placed on the station. On the ground below the
platform was a shelter 4’ x 1’-6%x2’ high in
which a 5 HP motor generator set was housed.
Power of 208-volt, 3-phase, 4-wire was provided to the motor generator. Conduit for 33
conductors was run from a weatherproof junction box on the platform to a junction box
inside of Station 71.
STATION:
PURPOSE:
SITE:
USER:
PARTICIPATION:
CONSTRUCTION:
OCCUPANCY:
1580.02
Weather Radar
Nan
DOD-15
All Bikini Events
4-11-56/4-11-56
4-11-56
This station was a User-furnished radar
unit mounted on a new platform at the 3714’
level of the existing Station 70 tower. A Userfurnished and-installed motor generator set was
installed in Station 70. Conduit for thirty-three
User-furnished conductors was run from a junction box at the radar platform to Room 1 of
Station 70.
STATIONS:
PURPOSE:
SITE:
1590 and 1591 thru 1596
Mirror House (1590) and
Baffles (1591 thru 1596)
Yvonne
quired. Station 1540.01 was first constructed in
USER:
DOD-15
PARTICIPATION: 24
CONSTRUCTION: 2-18-56/4-21-56
1515.
Located in front of Station 1520 was a
wood frame building 11’x 37’x 7 high with a
concrete foundation 11’x37’x 5thick which
was known as mirror house Station 1590. Inside
accordance with the plan location but as this
location did not provide the required clear line
of sight to Station 18, it was relocated at Station
STATION:
PURPOSE:
SITE:
USER:
PARTICIPATION:
1541
Fireball Photography
Alice
DOD-15
23
Station 1541 was a camera mount located
on top of existing CASTLE Station 1343. A 2%
KW. 110-volt, single-phase generator with an
extension cord to the second floor was provided.
Four pair of timing signal wire were terminated
in the second floor room of the station.
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this station was a plywood baffle with its end
wall containing two slots which were the beginning of a series of six wooden billboard-type
baffles that extended to within 1,000 feet of
Station 1524 and collimated the light path from
Station 24. These six baffles were Stations 1591
thru 1596. The distance in front of the Station
1590 working point for each baffle station was
as follows: 1591 - 50’, 1592 - 100’, 1593 - 250’,
1594 - 500’, 1595 - 2,125’ and 1596 - 4,508’. In
size, Station 1591 was 8’ x 8’, Station 1592 was
28’ x 8’, Station 1593 was 12’ x 8’, Station