Comments on: Villager Peak Conquered http://www.spicygoliath.com/2007/03/12/villager-peak-conquered/ Explore. Dream. Discover. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:01:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Andre http://www.spicygoliath.com/2007/03/12/villager-peak-conquered/#comment-142 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:03:00 +0000 http://www.spicygoliath.com/2007/03/12/villager-peak-conquered/#comment-142 Thanks Doug, I changed the post main photo to one of your pics. Thanks Doug, I changed the post main photo to one of your pics.

]]> by: Douglas Lock http://www.spicygoliath.com/2007/03/12/villager-peak-conquered/#comment-141 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:45:33 +0000 http://www.spicygoliath.com/2007/03/12/villager-peak-conquered/#comment-141 Andre If you want to post or use the pictures that I took of you when you flew over our camping site then feel free to use them in any way you wish. Doug Andre

If you want to post or use the pictures that I took of you when you flew over our camping site then feel free to use them in any way you wish.

Doug

]]> by: Douglas Lock http://www.spicygoliath.com/2007/03/12/villager-peak-conquered/#comment-140 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:39:44 +0000 http://www.spicygoliath.com/2007/03/12/villager-peak-conquered/#comment-140 Andre, Yes I believe the concrete structures must have been part of the antenna array. I rode my mountain bike out onto the dry lake one day and went to the very center of where the landing strip had been. There was absolutely no evidence of two crossing runways right there. There was however lots of small insulators, pieces of ladder line and wires scattered across the lake to show there had once been a significant antenna array on the lake. Andre, Yes I believe the concrete structures must have been part of the antenna array. I rode my mountain bike out onto the dry lake one day and went to the very center of where the landing strip had been. There was absolutely no evidence of two crossing runways right there. There was however lots of small insulators, pieces of ladder line and wires scattered across the lake to show there had once been a significant antenna array on the lake.

]]> by: Andre http://www.spicygoliath.com/2007/03/12/villager-peak-conquered/#comment-139 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 03:26:11 +0000 http://www.spicygoliath.com/2007/03/12/villager-peak-conquered/#comment-139 Hi Doug, Thanks for the interesting facts about Clark Lake. It sure is a fantastic area to camp and I hope it stays in it's current status for as long as possible. I wonder if those concrete structures were part of the antenna... Hi Doug, Thanks for the interesting facts about Clark Lake. It sure is a fantastic area to camp and I hope it stays in it’s current status for as long as possible. I wonder if those concrete structures were part of the antenna…

]]> by: Douglas Lock http://www.spicygoliath.com/2007/03/12/villager-peak-conquered/#comment-137 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:54:19 +0000 http://www.spicygoliath.com/2007/03/12/villager-peak-conquered/#comment-137 The history of Clark Dry Lake near Borrego Springs is interesting. It was an emergency airfield prior to and during WWII. The airfield was not shown on aeronautical maps after about 1955. Sometime in the 1960's the University of Maryland built a state of the art (at the time) radio observatory on the lake bed. It consisted of a large antenna array that was capable of operating from 10 Mhz to around 150 MHz and was used to map RF emissions from outer space. It was abandoned in the early 1990's. The land was owned by the Clark family until a few years ago when arrangements were made to have it transitioned into the Anza Borrego State Park. As I understand it the Clarks still technically own it but they don't have to pay taxes on it and some year it will really become a part of the Park. The history of Clark Dry Lake near Borrego Springs is interesting. It was an emergency airfield prior to and during WWII. The airfield was not shown on aeronautical maps after about 1955. Sometime in the 1960’s the University of Maryland built a state of the art (at the time) radio observatory on the lake bed. It consisted of a large antenna array that was capable of operating from 10 Mhz to around 150 MHz and was used to map RF emissions from outer space. It was abandoned in the early 1990’s. The land was owned by the Clark family until a few years ago when arrangements were made to have it transitioned into the Anza Borrego State Park. As I understand it the Clarks still technically own it but they don’t have to pay taxes on it and some year it will really become a part of the Park.

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