Lake Kickapoo, TX Transmitter

In the mid-90s, while on a railroad history field trip to investigate the remnants of a rail line that once ran through Olney, Texas, I was surprised to see a small sign with an arrow referencing some cryptic sort of US Navy facility. Olney is well inland, so it wouldn't have anything to do with the floating Navy, and there were no airports in the area, certainly nothing the flying Navy would use. The implication was some sort of radar or other surveillance system. Sure enough, the Navy had built a transmitter site for the Navy Space Surveillance System near Lake Kickapoo. Interestingly, the transmitter is two miles long and actually crosses a farm road. Reportedly, the Navy transferred management of this system to the Air Force and presumably it remains in operation. Wikipedia claims this is the most powerful Continuous Wave transmitter in the world, generating 768 kW of continuous radiated power at 216.983 MHz. Guess I'll need to tune my UHF radio at the office to this frequency and see what's there.

US Navy Spasur Transmitter, Lake Kickapoo, Texas [33 33 09N, 98 45 47W]

Even more interesting, this farm road has been tracked with Google Street View, as shown below (looking north from the crossing)