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Anonymous ID: 4a8744 June 7, 2021, 1:26 p.m. No.13851502   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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ASA ESTABLISHES FIELD STATION AUGSBURG

14 April 1970

On 14 April 1970, the Army Security Agency (ASA) established Field Station Augsburg in southern West Germany. The field station was a result of almost two years of effort to consolidate several field stations. The effort paid off and Augsburg would become the Army’s largest field station and a crucial Cold War asset.

In January 1967, Maj. Gen. Charles Denholm, the ASA commander, directed a study to consider how to centralize ASA sites in Germany. Denholm was searching for ways to maximize resources in the midst of the Vietnam War. He also wanted to exploit new technologies. Once both the Army and the National Security Agency (NSA) accepted the study’s recommendation, the ASA leadership chose the Augsburg area for both technical reasons and the ready existence of troop support facilities.

In July 1968, ASA Europe, the agency’s theater headquarters, formed the station’s first cadre as the ASA Provisional Command. Under Col.

Joseph P. Goldenburg, the provisional unit oversaw preparations for the new field station. Over the next nineteen months, Goldenburg

and his staff began the process of combining the manpower and missions of three field stations (Rothwesten, Herzogenaurach, and Bad Aibling); five company-sized border sites (Gross Gusborn, Wobeck, Mount Meissner, Mount Schneeburg, and Eckstein); seven small detachments (from Denmark to northern Italy); and Headquarters, ASA Europe (Frankfurt). In addition, small Air Force and Navy elements relocated to Augsburg as part of the field station. In April 1970, the Provisional In the Augsburg area, the new field station initially consisted of a headquarters, an operations center to run the mission, and a troop command with six companies. Each of the three components were located on a different kaserne. The headquarters was on Flak Kaserne to the west of central Augsburg while the troop command was on Sheridan Kaserne to the southwest. The all-important operations complex was at Gablingen Kaserne, north of the city.

In August 1971, Col. Richard H. Koenig replaced Colonel Goldenburg. Koenig continued to consolidate the various ASA assets into the field station. In October 1971, he stood up the Border Site Command to control and support the over 500 personnel scattered at the eleven remaining remote sites. Stationed at Flak Kaserne, this battalion-sized-command included a signal element, a separate data processing division, and maintenance and supply personnel. Moreover, at the end of December 1971, the field station received its most distinctive feature: its AN/FLR-9 antenna. Popularly known as “the Elephant Cage,” this circular antenna array was 120 feet tall, 1,500 feet in diameter, and covered twenty-eight acres.

On 12 January 1972, Field Station Augsburg formally began operations. At that time, it had absorbed the missions of three field stations, four border sites, and the theater headquarters. It had grown from a small organization of 68 people (seven officers, one warrant officer, and sixty soldiers) in 1970 to a robust one with 2,684 personnel (121 officers, 42 warrants, 2,511 enlisted and 10 civilians) in 1973. Likewise, its operating budget had increased from $415,501 (about $3,119,500 in today’s dollars) to $2,789,000 (or $19,269,500 today).

Throughout the Cold War, Field Station Augsburg remained one of the Army’s most important intelligence assets, supporting both national intelligence requirements as well as the tactical commanders in Europe. ─Michael E. Bigelow

Anonymous ID: 4a8744 June 7, 2021, 1:50 p.m. No.13851656   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1741

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The three simple electric charge characteristics as it relates to an antenna specifically a dipole antenna are:

 

  • Charged particles have an electric field at all times

  • Charged particles create an magnetic field when moving at a constant speed.

  • Charged particles create an electromagnetic field when accelerating or reversing

 

Half wavelength antennas at resonance have characteristics of a capacitor in that the current leads the voltage by 90 degrees within the antenna. Standing waves of voltage and current occur and each form their own distinct half sine wave over the antenna whereby the current is maximum whenever the voltage is minimum. The ends are voltage loops and the center is the current loop.

 

When a reversing current interacts with a resonant antenna it allows part of the antenna's collapsing electric field lines of force to be isolated from the antenna and loop on themselves and be propelled away from the antenna by the antenna electric field since the fields repel each other. The newly isolated moving looped electric field lines of force create magnetic lines of force that are in phase and have the same sign of magnitude. In the electromagnetic field the electric and magnetic fields are combined and in phase but 90 degrees apart or perpendicular to each other in space.

 

The local antenna electric and magnetic fields are called near field which along with properly timed new incoming charges allow for this creation of electromagnetic radiation which becomes the far field. The voltage versus current 90 degree phase relationship in the antenna and new charge timing allow this far field radiation to occur.