Photos:The huge abandoned over the horizon radar at Chernobyl+ more abandonment

[cdev]

Ive seen a number of articles on it but never quite as many photos of the "Woodpecker" OTH radar facility at Chernobyl

http://englishrussia.com/2010/09/15/chernobyl-2-a-pearl-of-the-past/

The antennas are of course horizontally polarized biconical broadband dipoles.

Some uncountably huge number of them.
Other truly epic abandonments are depicted there as well. Also here.

https://armahema.livejournal.com/tag/%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B5

[TheSteve]

The woodpecker really sucked!

[Moshly]

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/whats-left-of-a-russian-duga-3-radar-site/

[ANTALIFE]

Should go there OP. Chernobyl is a really cool place to visit, plus Ukraine is a very cheap to stay in.

[Ampera]

Should go there OP. Chernobyl is a really cool place to visit, plus Ukraine is a very cheap to stay in.

The OP is in the US, and trust me, a flight from the US to the Ukraine is anything BUT cheap. Lodging may be inexpensive, but everything else I will bet is not.

[ANTALIFE]

The OP is in the US, and trust me, a flight from the US to the Ukraine is anything BUT cheap. Lodging may be inexpensive, but everything else I will bet is not.

~600USD return does not seem that bad, https://goo.gl/u8sU9G

[razberik]

The OP is in the US, and trust me, a flight from the US to the Ukraine is anything BUT cheap. Lodging may be inexpensive, but everything else I will bet is not.

It depends.
It happened to us. We were wandering around streets in Kiev and we were looking for place to eat. We found some normal looking restaurant, so we went into. Personnel seemed to be OK, place was nice.
We received menu and then we realized that prices are quite comparable to prices in CZ. OK then, we ordered some food. We were the only persons in restaurant.
Then started to walk in ugly fat persons in suits escorted by top model chicks. Then we realized we were eating in expensive mafia restaurant, but still for prices which are normal for us.

Anyway, Chernobyl itself and Pripjat absolutely wasn't surprising for me. Nothing special that I never seen on pictures or videos on the Internet. Pripjat is definitely not a ghost city. It is a busy city full of tourists, workers and government personnel. And dogs. Lot of dogs.

Duga radar was perfect ! Surrounded by pine forests and under the radar site, there is marvelous sand beach !
Radar itself is in a good shape. Little bit care with  new painting and it would work like brand new !

[babysitter]

Don't you give them the Idea! 

[cdev]

 I have a health problem which keeps me out of moldy places like that.

Should go there OP. Chernobyl is a really cool place to visit, plus Ukraine is a very cheap to stay in.

[German_EE]

You would need to wear a mask anyway because of the risk of breathing in something that's an Alpha emitter so you might be OK with the mould thing.

[cdev]

I know but at this point...

At this point I cant discuss it.

I have two strikes here. The third one and I'm out.

You would need to wear a mask anyway because of the risk of breathing in something that's an Alpha emitter so you might be OK with the mould thing.

Also, tourism is for people with money I don't have right now. In the past I made decent money, hopefully I can again someday but right now recreational travel is not in my budget.

[T3sl4co1l]

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