CHAPTER Il, SECTION 5
STATIONS 1811.01 AND 1811.02
TRANSMISSION
SITES DELTA AND GEORGE
USER: NRLS

ENGINEERING. Criteria were received on 31
August. Station 1812.07 was relocated on 2
September.
Vhe Instrumentation Chart designated seven Stations. As criteria were not re-

GENERAL. Station 1811.01 consisted of an
electrical outlet on the roof of Station 1341.
Station 1811.02 consisted of a 10’- 0" x 32’-3”
x 17°- 0” high penthouse located on the roof of
Station 1550.
These Stations were used in
Project 18.) (light transmission).

and 112.08, the work on these four Stations was
held in abevance. Design drawings were started
on 15 September and three plans were submitted
on 25 September: they were approved on 16

ENGINEERING. Eleven plans were prepared
and submitted from 19 August to 3 September.
These plans were approved from 10 September
to 9 October.

CONSTRUCTION.
Work was scheduled to
commence on 10 October and to be comoleted on
31 December. Actual starting dates varied from
10 November to 15 January. Completion dates

CONSTRUCTION, Work on Station 1411.01

started on 1 January 1954 and was completed
on 23 January. Station 1811.02 was started on
19 December 1953 and was completed on 20
January 1954.

ceived

for Stations

1812.02,

1612.03,

1812.06

October. Figure 2-344, Station 1612.07, ts typi-

cal of the series.

varied trom 15 to 18 January 1954.

STATIONS la2042 - 1820.05
DOUBLE TRAILER PIER LOCATION
74 FT. TOWER BASE
SITES VARIOUS - USER: NRLS

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GENERAL. These trailer Pedestal Stations.
1920.02, 1820.03 and 1820.04, were used for
thermal measurements and were located on sites
How. Tare and Elmer respectively.
Station
1820.05, at Yvonne. was added in March 1954
due to the rescheduling of the Test Program.
These pedestals or supports consisted of three
parallel steel members, the tops being six feet

above the ground. Phe support covered an area
of 12°- 0" x 30% - 0" x 30°- 0" and the tops of the

Figure 2-144

Station 1812.07 - Typical

STATIONS 1812.01 - 1812.08
MODULATED LIGHT SOURCE
SITES VARIOUS - USER: NRLS
GENERAL. These Stations were located on
islands or reefs of both atolls. Station 1812.01
was a steel tower similar to Station 1560.02 and
is shown in Figure 2-382 with its relation to Station 20. Stations 1812.04, 1812.05 and 1812.07

consisted of 12’- 0” x 12’- 0” wood-tramedplat-

forms on top of 8’ -0”% x 8-0" x 15°-0" high
wood-framed towers. Power was supplied to all
four Stations. The three woolen towers had portable generators for this purjose. The User furnished the equipment to measure light transmission.

Figure 2-145.

Station 1820.05 - Typical
'

trailers were guyed to concrete anchors. Figure
2-145, Station 1820.05, is typical of this series.
ENGINEERING. The original design criteria
Were received on 13 July 1953, One drawing
was required and it was started on 20 August.
submitted on 18 September, approved and issued
on 6 November. GREENHOUSE Station 100
was reactivated and the work! consisted of
installation of blowers, generators and trans-

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