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| Posted by: iceman October 11, 2005 03:35 pm |
| Hello to anyone , I am new on this forum and I will hope you will have understnding for my mistakes. From my dad I heard that close to Airport Bucrest Otopeni in WWII there was a radar and telemetric station called " tiger" of the germans army or luftwaffe.Do anyone know the exact location of the installation and have any photos ? This station was used till 1944 under ground and good camufalge iceman |
| Posted by: Carol I October 11, 2005 07:32 pm |
| German radars position map Originally http://www.worldwar2.ro/forum/index.php?showtopic=1883&view=findpost&p=27862 by Cantacuzino. |
| Posted by: iceman October 11, 2005 08:54 pm |
| General Carol Thank you very much for your help but I am affraight to say the chart is only pertinet to to use of the night fighters and the landing signalling facilities and not any Radar locations in Rumania . I am looking for the location of Wuerzburg , Freya and Lichetnsteins radars stations in Rumania between 1943 to 1944 Iceman |
| Posted by: Carol I October 11, 2005 09:22 pm | ||
Sorry for the error. I just remembered Cantacuzino posting this image as the map of the German radars, but not the subsequent correction. |
| Posted by: Victor October 12, 2005 05:06 am |
| The radar locations in Romania were: -Medias: Freya radar -Timisoara: Freya radar -Focsani: Freya radar -Piatra Neamt: Freya radar -Buzau (Brutus): Würzburg radar -Bujorei (Belisar): Würzburg radar -Comana (Cornelius): Würzburg radar -Giurgiu: Freya radar -Jilavele (Justinian): Würzburg radar -Manastirea (Marius): Würzburg radar -Targoviste (Tiberius): Würzburg radar -Pietrosita (Pompeius): Würzburg radar -Valenii de Munte (Varus): Würzburg radar -Zilistea: Wotan II -Targu Jiu: Freya radar -Techirghiol: Freya radar, Wasserman I radar -Mahmudia (Marta): Freya radar -Bucharest: ---Baneasa: Knickebein radar, Jagdschloss IFF station, Wotan II ---Otopeni (Octavian): Freya radar, Würzburg radar, Wotan II -Chisinau: Freya radar Information from Inceputurile radarului in Romania - Cu ochii scrutand cerul in bezna noptii by Ioan Iordache, in issue 4/2005 of Modelism International. Btw, as far as I know the Liechtenstein radar was mounted on night fighters, so it didn't have a fixed position.  |
| Posted by: Carol I October 12, 2005 06:45 am | ||
These locations also appear on Cantacuzion's map with the designation "beacons" (Germ. "Leuchtfeuer"). Does it mean that the locations contained both equipments? |
| Posted by: iceman October 12, 2005 09:01 am |
| Dear General Carol Thank you for your messages. I think there is a possibility that the german chart also applies to the German radars locations at least some of them but I doubt it has something to do in majority with Radar stations I mostly think is showing the night facilities for fighter aircraft coordination and landings at night ....so I am still puzzled where the location of all Rumanian and German radars was in WWII in Rumania Thank you ! ICE |
| Posted by: Victor October 12, 2005 01:10 pm | ||
The list I wrote mentions the radar types and their locations in Romania. Isn't that what you wanted? |
| Posted by: Victor October 12, 2005 01:13 pm | ||
Yes, it seems they also had radiobeacons at those locations. |
| Posted by: iceman October 12, 2005 02:02 pm |
| Dear Victor thanks for informing me more, do I correcly understand that the placement of the light beacons were also radar guidance stations ? Perhaps you can help me to download images of 500 KB into my topics, I tried all possibilities and doesnt work. Do I need to download a special Shark software ? Iceman |
| Posted by: Cantacuzino October 12, 2005 03:21 pm | ||
They were complementary. Wurzburgs radars with serchlight unit ( that probably means the light beacons on the map), AA guns units and night fighters work toghether as a team. See one of the tipical arrangement below: http://imageshack.us |
| Posted by: iceman October 12, 2005 03:35 pm |
| Dear general Cantacuzino I want to post some photos and chart of Bucharest aa defenses, I am not able to download the photos with Shark...can you please help ? Thank You Iceman |
| Posted by: Cantacuzino October 12, 2005 03:52 pm | ||
First you "browse" for the picture ( should be max. 200Kb) than you push the "Host it" button. You wait for loading the Image shack, select and copy -paste (to your message board) the "hotlink for forums" from the image shack links. http://imageshack.us |
| Posted by: Victor October 12, 2005 04:45 pm |
| You have an image attachment guide here: http://www.worldwar2.ro/forum/index.php?showtopic=2093 |
| Posted by: Victor October 12, 2005 04:48 pm |
| Cantacuzino, I believe the beacons on the map are radiobeacons, not searchlights. They were used to help the night fightrers to determine their current position, by measuring the relative position to the beacon. |
| Posted by: iceman October 12, 2005 07:05 pm |
| Dear Mr Victor If all syetms on Internet work like shark I will better give up my historical work.-----shark is time consumining and a nothing but ***! |
| Posted by: dragos October 12, 2005 07:32 pm |
| iceman, that kind of language is not allowed here. The http://www.worldwar2.ro/forum/index.php?showtopic=2093 is pretty straightforward IMO. I'm sorry to hear it did not help. |
| Posted by: iceman October 12, 2005 10:13 pm | ||
MR Dragos I am sorry about my frustrating language, neverthless I cant work with Shark is hard and an inefficient system Ice |