RADIO FACILITIES NEAR KUN-MING, CHINA

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• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04560A001100010075-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 2004
• Sequence Number: 75
• Publication Date: April 1, 1963
• Content Type: REPORT

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RADIO FACILITIES NEAR KUN-MING, CHINA
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RADIO FACILITIES NEAR KUN-MING, CHINA
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A radio broadcast station a radio com4
munication station, and a
Kun-ming, China (Figure 1).
The radio broadcast station (24-53N 102-
29E), about 15.5 nm southwest of Kun-ming,
is a medium- to high-frequency facility com-
posed of three support areas serving groups
of curtain antenna arrays, two directional ver-
tical radiators, a horizontal dipole, and an
omnidirectional vertical radiator (Figure 2).
Each curtain array consists of an active
curtain backed by a passive curtain, suspended
from pole frame towers or self-supporting
towers. There are 10 groups of pole frame
towers and 5 groups of self-supporting towers,
arranged according to height, spacing, and sim-
ilarity of construction (Figure 2, Items Ca
through Co). The directional vertical radiators
(Figure 2, Items DVa and DVb) are guyed
towers backed by parallel rows of towers which
act as passive reflectors; antenna DVa also
has buried ground radials. The horizontal
dipole (Figure 2, Item HD) is suspended
between guyed towers, and the omnidirectional
vertical radiator (Figure 2, Item OV) is a self-
supporting tower. Dimensions and operational
characteristics of the antennas are given in
Table 1.
Each support area contains a transmitter
building, various other electronic facilities or
housing and maintenance buildings, and one or
two cooling ponds. Underground transmission
lines connect the transmitter buildings with
the antennas, but specific connections between
all buildings and antennas cannot be traced.
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AREA B
ROAD
FENCE
TRANSMISSION LINE
SELF-SUPPORTING TOWER
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FIGURE 2. RADIO BROADCAST STATION.
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SUPPORT
AREA C
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SUPPORT
AREA A
KEY TO ANNOTATED ITEMS
I.
TRANSMITTER BLDG
6.
TRANSMITTER BLDG
2.
TRANSFORMER YARD
7.
COOLING PONDS
3.
DIESEL/ELECTRIC
8.
GENERATOR BLDG
GENERATOR BLDG
9.
TRANSMITTER BLDG
4.
COOLING POND
10.
COOLING POND
5.
WATER TOWER
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KEY TO ANNOTATED ITEMS
1.
TRANSMITTER BLDG
5. 3 DUPLEX HOUSING
2.
ADMIN BLDG
BLDGS
3.
MESS & RECREATION
6. HOUSING &
BLDG
MAINTENANCE
4.
2 MULTI-UNIT HOUSING
7. MAIN ADMIN BLDG
BLDGS
8. 10 STORAGE BLDGS
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TRANSMISSION LINE
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The transmitter building in Support Area A
(Figure 2, Item 1) measures 100 by 85 feet
and serves antennas DVa, DVb, IID, and Co.
The area also has a diesel-electric generator
building, 25 by 25 feet; a transformer yard,
75 by 50 feet; a cooling pond, 50 by 20 feet;
and a water tower of undetermined dimensions.
Support Area B, the largest at the station,
has a transmitter building (Figure 2, Item 6)
which measures 155 by 55 feet and appears
to serve antennas Ca through Cg. Other
facilities in the area include a generator build-
ing, 50 by 30 feet; two cooling ponds, each
50 by 20 feet; and numerous housing and
maintenance buildings. The transmitter build-
ing in Support Area C (Figure 2, Item 9)
measures 120 by 40 feet and apparently serves
antennas OV and Ch through Cn; the cooling
pond in the area is
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The radio communication station (24-56N
102-48E), about 8.5 nrn southeast of Kun-
ming, consists of 14 rhombic antennas, a trans-
mitter building measuring 180 by 30 feet, and
numerous support buildings (Figure 3). The
large number of storage and barracks-type
support buildings suggests that, for logistical
purposes, the station is located at a military
garrison or storage area. The station could
be a point-to--point broadcast-relay facility,
but the long-range rhombic antennas (Table
2), oriented to most points
and the
nearby indicate thatithasa radio communication
function. It is also doubtful that more than
one radio broadcast station would be located
in the. Kun-ming area.
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