Talk:Air Force Space Surveillance System
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[edit] Location
Added information on the receiver stations - Dmine45 13:01, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Corrected location link for Tattnall station (Glennville, GA instead of Ft. Stewart, GA) - Dmine45 13:01, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
- Glennville, Georgia is 25 miles from the site. Fort Stewart is 10 miles, Flemington, Georgia is 8.5 miles. The site is in Bryan County, Georgia on the base in the middle of no where, no towns nearby. Click the lat and long to see the location. As to why it is called Tattnall, Georgia. I have no idea, there is no Tattnall in the USPS zip code Data base, but several refs call it the Tattnall site in Georgia. 47CFR§2.106 Footnote US229 calls it Fort Stewart and gives the lat/long listed. Dual Freq 21:34, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
The site is no longer located on Fort Stewart. Glennvile is about 10 miles to the south. The Lat/Long coordinates are probably from the former Fort Stewart location. The site was moved to the current location in Tattnall county just west of US Route 301 in 1987. The site name was changed to Tattnall in the process. Dmine45 16:01, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
- Someone needs to tell the FCC, because they think it is located in the original location. In Federal law, 47CFR§2.106 Footnote US229 - Revised as of October 1, 2005. Reception of the sub-band 216.965-216.995 MHz shall be protected from harmful interference within 50 kilometers (31.1 miles) of the following sites: Fort Stewart, GA 31[deg]58[min]36[sec] N,081[deg]30[min]34[sec] W. Dual Freq 22:54, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
Its not surprising that the FCC doesn't know about the move. I'll have to dig out the current Lat/Long coordinates for the Tattnall site (I have it in a box of old NAVSPASUR stuff). Basically, the FCC restricts use of 216.98 MHz (with guard bands) for the Fence from coast to coast along the 33rd parallel. Pretty soon it may be a moot point since there is discussion of moving the Fence to the L-band or X-band for greater precision. Dmine45 11:20, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
- The Ft Stewart site ( ) does appear abandoned in the USGS aerial photos. Another site, west of 301 as you described, ( ) looks to be a likely location for the new site. It's just inside Tattnall County about 7 miles north of Glennville. I'm not sure I can add this location to the article because there is no source except your word and my original research based on that word. We need a reliable source to back this location up. Dual Freq 00:55, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
