14th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Travel
Tropospheric Scatter Dishes

Lying in a field in Lincolnshire are these four tropospheric scatter dishes, a left over from a NATO base that was located here when it was known as RAF Stenigot. Signals were bounced off of the troposphere and over the horizion to the next station. There were a network of them around Europe.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 06.2015
Date Uploaded: 11.2016
Photo Location: near Norwich, United Kingdom
Copyright: © Matt Emmett