The view from the beach tower at Camp Perry
by Joe Graf
The pronematch.com staff got a birds-eye view of Camp Perry today when they climbed the stairs to the range control beach tower. Located northeast of the ranges along the shore of Lake Erie, the Ohio National Guard tower personel use radar, forward looking infared radar, marine radios, and a computer to monitor the weather and impact area of Lake Erie. They also have access to a patrol boat when necessary.
The impact area is within a pie shape wedge centered at the tower extending out three miles into the lake and three miles along the shore west of the tower. Recently updated radar equipment allow the personel to view markers that designate the restircted area, boat and other watercraft in the area as well as wake of the traveling watercraft.
Once we reached the top of the stairs, we entered the enclosure and was provided a tour of the equipment used by the range control personel. We turned around and looked west and south of the tower and was greated with a spectular view of the firing ranges.
We would like to thank SFC Reynolds and SFC Ridner for allowing us the opportunity to view the range control beach tower operations.
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- Dan Holmes
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- Even the tower guys check out pronematch.com
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- SFC Reynolds and SFC Ridner
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- Hap Rocketto and Joe Graf with
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- The view from the beach tower at Camp Perry
