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UER Forum > Canada: Ontario > CFS-Carp Dunrobin Detachment (Viewed 2487 times)
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CFS-Carp Dunrobin Detachment
< on 11/14/2016 7:38 PM >
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First post on the forums lets do this.
CFS-Carp (The Deifenbunker) had two land linked unmanned radio receiver stations located in small concrete bunkers about 15 kilometres from the bunker. These stations would act as communication receivers for the bunker in case of nuclear war acting as backups enabling the people holed up inside the bunker to stay in contact with the rest of the world.
On a chilly November sundown we made our way out to the site to visit a piece of Canada cold war heritage


The road to the site

We parked at the entrance to the site and walked up the long overgrown road to the bunker. On our way down the road we found the remains of power lines with the ceramic insulators till somewhat intact


Further down the road we got our first sight of the bunker the 1.5 inch thick steel doors left open invitingly


The inside of the concrete cube was divided into an airlock with the first chamber holding the intakes for filtered air as well as a concrete slab for


Inside the second chamber was a desk where operators would have sat. When the site was still active the table probably held monitoring equipment for the station. The inside was pretty badly trashed with beer cans and other junk strewn on the floor.


The bunker still had its cable system more or less intact with cables hanging from the ceiling and snaking in and out of racks on the floor and walls.



Wall mounted cable rack with plugs for transmitter cables


The electrical box for the bunker

On our way our we were just in time to the the fantastic sunset and the huge moon (No pics they are too blurry).

I hope you all enjoyed.
Next week a derelict power dam in the Ottawa valley
(or maybe a farmhouse if we can find it)






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Re: CFS-Carp Dunrobin Detachment
< Reply # 1 on 11/14/2016 9:21 PM >
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nice work, i thought the Diefenbunker was a tourist attraction though...?




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It is now but at the time that Dunrobin station was operational it was intended to house all of Parliament in case of a nuclear attack.




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nice




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< Reply # 4 on 11/16/2016 8:58 PM >
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A nice find. Relatively intact.

That's a transmitter or repeater housing, possibly for obsolete coaxial long lines. The work station is probably more of a work bench. Normally these small sites weren't manned.
Harden against the weather, cold, heat, and dust more than anything else. Semi harden at best.
Some of the long line sites are harden with blast doors, living facilities and fully self sustaining for a month, some have harden microwave antenna, some are underground.




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