Ground Air Transmit Receive
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Ground Air Transmit Receive (GATR) "control sites"[1] were the radio stations of a Cold War communications network in the ground-controlled interception using manned interceptors. Generally located near or, in some cases, on an Aerospace Defense Command radar station, a GATR site was used for the to communicate command guidance via "HF/VHF/UHF voice & TDDL"[2] to vector F-106 Delta Dart and other equipped aircraft[3] that had been dispatched by teams in Weapons Direction rooms of SAGE Direction Centers. GATR maintenance was by the 304x4 Ground Radio Maintenance career field[4] with initial radio training at Keesler Air Force Base,[5] and GATR sites included the (TDDL) equipment[6] providing output to an [7] with Varian klystron[8] and 20 kilowatt output (or earlier 100 watt, single-channel AN/GRT-3).[9] The aircraft receivers were either Hughes AN/ARR-60 or AN/ARR-61[10] "Airborne Radio Receivers" of the .[11]
Most "GATR/SAGE sites" are now Formerly Used Defense Sites such as the 6-acre (2.4 ha) site supported by Oakdale Air Force Station, Pennsylvania, and that were designated for closure by the 1995 Base Realignment and Closure Commission.[12]
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- Differing from Manual Air Defense Control Centers that networked Permanent System radar stations, NORAD Control Centers had simpler C3 equipment (e.g., for the "austere SAGE area" in the Zone of the Interior) than the Direction Centers' AN/FSQ-7s such as the General Electric AN/GPA-37 Course Directing Group with AN/GPA-67 Time Division Data Link equipment through transmitters to the AN/ARR-39 "SAGE Datalink Receivers" used in the F-86L Sabre Interceptor, which was the SAGE variant[10]—an F-86D Sabre Dog with equipment for day/night/all weather operations.[5] For example, by 1965, "Hamilton AFB and Richards-Gebaur AFB…operated as Remote Combat Centers (Hamilton had remote input from Reno Sector and Richards-Gebaur from Sioux City Sector)".[18]
- ^ http://www.epa.gov/reg3hscd/npl/PA5210022344.htm
- ^ [specify], Tim (September 21, 2007). "Re: Speaking of AUTOVON" (coldwarcomms message). Yahoo.com. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
A previously referenced AT&T training manual on SAGE/BUIC/AUTOVON phone systems does list all the AUTOVON/SAGE Switching Centers & includes their General Purpose (AUTOVON) NNX, their SAGE NNX, and … For example, Delta, Utah had 890 for AUTOVON, 764 for SAGE
CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Jump up to: a b c "Topsham AFS". Cold War Relics. copyright 2009. Archived from the original on 2010-06-12. Retrieved 2013-02-19.
the SAGE block house was bulldozed in 1985.
Check date values in:|date=(help) (image of entrance sign with arrow: "Bangor North American Air Defense Sector") - ^ http://www.radomes.org/museum/showroster.php?site=Minot+GATR,+ND
- ^ Blackburn, Charles A (2012-06-23). "[anecdote posting]" (PDF). AFdasf.org. Retrieved 2014-02-24.
Keesler for 304x4 training; GATR sites in Cut Bank, MO and Hastings, NE…last assignment to Andrews AFB GAR site at Brandywine, MD
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- ^ Jump up to: a b http://www.designation-systems.net/usmilav/jetds/an-arq2ary.html
- ^ http://www.f-106deltadart.com/sage_system.htm
- ^ http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-1998-05-12/pdf/98-12569.pdf
- ^ http://57thbombwing.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=58236http://www.radomes.org/museum/recent/SelfridgeAFBMI.html
- ^ http://wikimapia.org/5186065/Ground-Air-Transmitter-and-Receiver-GATR-Site
- ^ http://wikimapia.org/5186065/Ground-Air-Transmitter-and-Receiver-GATR-Site
- ^ http://wikimapia.org/5013155/GATR-site
- ^ http://www.radomes.org/museum/showsite.php?site=Minot+GATR,+ND
- ^ NORAD/CONAD Historical Summary, 1965B
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