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Over-the-Horizon Backscatter Radar Network, Mountain Home Air Force Operations Building, On Desert Street at 9th Avenue Mountain Home Air Force Base, Mountain Home, Elmore County, ID Contributor Names Historic American Engineering Record, creator Created / Published Documentation compiled after 1968 Subject Headings - radar tracking stations - radars - Cold War - military facilities - Idaho -- Elmore County -- Mountain Home Notes - Significance: The Over-the-Horizon Backscatter radar network was an important physical and scientific product of the Cold War. From theories that had been conceived in the days of early long-distance radio transmissions, and building over three decades of research into the subject, the network was a tremendous technological and military accomplishment. Although it was only starting operation as the Cold War was ending, the ability of a radar system to warn against low-flying aircraft at distances of up to 1,800 miles away was an amazing step forward in air defense. The west coast operation buildings is located at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho. Signals received by the arrays are analyzed by technicians in this building. There is only one operations building for the West Coast Radar System. - Survey number: HAER ID-44 Medium Photo(s): 8 Data Page(s): 4 Photo Caption Page(s): 1 Call Number/Physical Location HAER ID-44 Source Collection Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress) Repository Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Control Number id0480 Rights Advisory No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html Online Format image pdf Description