COMMUNICATIONS SITE VEL'KE KOSTOLANY, CZECHOSLOVAKIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T04751A000300080031-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2001
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: June 22, 1960
• Content Type: BRIEF

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JOINT PHOTOGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE BRIEF
ARMY-NAVY-CIA
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(Published and Disseminated by CIA/PIC)
SUBJECT? : Communications Site NO : PIC/JB-111/60
DATE: 22 June 1960
LOCATION: Vel'ke Kostolany, Czechoslovakia LAT .480311N 25X1D
LONG: 17?43' E
MAP DATA:
ACIC. US Air Target Chart, Series 100, Sheet 0232-1248-100A,
1st ed (Prov), May 56, scale 1:100,000 (S)
A fence-enclosed communications site covering approximately 75
acres is located at 48?31'N/17?43'E, 0.5 nautical miles north of Vel'ke
Kostolany, Czechoslovakia (see Figure 1). The site, which is road
served, contains a control building and seven support buildings having a
total roof area of 35, 800 square feet. The site has five .rhombic antennas
(items 1-5, Figure 2)', two guyed vertical radiators (items 6 and 7), and
two self-supporting towers (items 8 and 9). Of the two guyed vertical
radiators, one (item 6) is 380 feet high and the other (item 7), 290 feet
high. The two self-supporting towers (items 8 and 9) are 240 feet high
and are 400 feet apart. Three possible tuning houses are located in
line between the two self-.supporting towers. Each rhombic antenna has
a dissipation line, indicating a transmitting capability. Data on the
rhombics are given in the following table (antenna numbers are keyed to
Figure 2).
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boundary. Some of the other international boundaries
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FIGURE 1. LOCATION MAP
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
1950 International boundary or limit
of administration
1937 International boundary not
now effective
Kraj boundary
National capital
p Kraj capital
The names of administrative divisions
are the same as their capitals.
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Rhombic Major Minor Leg
Antenna No Axis (ft) Axis (ft) (ft)
1 710 Z90 3 90
2 710 290 3 0
3 390 170
4 710 290
5 390 170
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^ ^ -SELF SUPPORTING TOWER
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VERTICAL RADIATOR
TO VEL'KE KOSTOLANY
500 0 500 1000
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FEET
'~ COMMUNICATIONS SITE AT VEL'KE KOSTOLANY, CZECHOSLOVAKIA. This drawing is based on
hotography.
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