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CHAPTER II, SECTION 3

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1519
Cloud and Fireball
Photography
Able
DOD-15

1517
Cloud and Fireball
Photography
SITE:
Nan
USER:
DOD-15
PARTICIPATION: 10, 11, 12, 13 and 22
CONSTRUCTION: 3-12-56/7-20-56

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USER:

This station was an existing cab located
on a 300’ tower, CASTLE Station 1300. The
cab was rehabilitated and new roll-up doors
were installed which were similar to those in

except that the front wall at the camera port
was at a different vertical angle.

PARTICIPATION: 18
CONSTRUCTION: 2-20-56/5-16-56

This station was identical to Station 910

Stations 1513, 1515 and 1516. Power require-

ments were 8 KW, 120/208-volt, 3-phase. Minus
15 minutes, minus 15 seconds, and minus 5

seconds timing signals plus an interlock were
provided.
STATION:

PURPOSE:
SITE:

USER:

1518

Bhang Meters
Elmer

DOD-15

PARTICIPATION: All Eniwetok Events
CONSTRUCTION: 4-4-56/4-7-56

Existing IVY tower Station 301 was rehabilitated and known as Station 1518 for this

Operation. The work consisted of rehabilitating

the elevator and roll-up doors, spot painting the
entire tower, installing a 6” x 4” x %” x 12’ long
aluminum camera rack angle on the cab roof,
and building a 2’ x 4’ x 2’-6”-high wooden work
bench for the generator shed.
Power requirements were 8 KW, 120/208volt, 3-phase. Minus 15 minutes, minus 15 seconds, and minus five seconds timing signals,

plus an interlock were provided.

Figure 2-80.
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CONSTRUCTION:

Station 1519
1520
High-Speed Photography
Yvonne
LASL
24, 6 and 7
12-19-55/4-20-56

This station was a reinforced
bunker 60 x 36’x 15’ high with 3
walls and slabs designed to withstand
occasioned by the Stations 24, 6 and

concrete
foot-thick
pressures
7 events.

The station contained three instrument rooms,
an entrance corridor, a photo slot structure,

and an attached utility room. Two steel-frame
camera shelves with aluminum tops 14’ and
214’ were located in Room 2 so as to orientate

the cameras with eight 10’-diameter pipe sleeves

Figure 2-79.

Station 1519 - 13% Complete

in the concrete wall leading to Room 3. A helium
exhaust manifold was provided at each camera
shelf with vents leading through the roof. In
Room 3, four steel columns extending from
floor to ceiling were used as mounts for turning
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