Comments on: Sentinel of Silicon Valley: The Radar Tower at Mount Umunhum is Saved /blog/sentinel-of-silicon-valley-the-radar-tower-at-mount-umunhum-is-saved/ Connecting People to Places Wed, 09 Nov 2016 19:02:46 +0000 hourly 1 .org/?v=7.0.2 By: Ranger Gaudinski /blog/sentinel-of-silicon-valley-the-radar-tower-at-mount-umunhum-is-saved/#comment-91932 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 22:43:05 +0000 /?p=10933#comment-91932 In reply to Jen.

Great Jen. I will let you know when we can go. Thanks!

]]> By: Ranger Gaudinski /blog/sentinel-of-silicon-valley-the-radar-tower-at-mount-umunhum-is-saved/#comment-91929 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 22:39:34 +0000 /?p=10933#comment-91929 In reply to Ari Salomon.

OK Ari will let you know when it comes up. Thanks!

]]> By: Ari Salomon /blog/sentinel-of-silicon-valley-the-radar-tower-at-mount-umunhum-is-saved/#comment-91914 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 16:33:19 +0000 /?p=10933#comment-91914 I would also love to get a tour thank you

]]> By: Jen /blog/sentinel-of-silicon-valley-the-radar-tower-at-mount-umunhum-is-saved/#comment-91913 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 16:04:24 +0000 /?p=10933#comment-91913 I would be very interested in taking the hiking tour!

]]> By: Ranger Gaudinski /blog/sentinel-of-silicon-valley-the-radar-tower-at-mount-umunhum-is-saved/#comment-91867 Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:42:33 +0000 /?p=10933#comment-91867 In reply to John Haskey.

Thanks John. I have updated the post.

]]> By: John Haskey /blog/sentinel-of-silicon-valley-the-radar-tower-at-mount-umunhum-is-saved/#comment-91863 Mon, 24 Oct 2016 18:46:56 +0000 /?p=10933#comment-91863 “It was demolished without warning under the cover of early morning darkness”

This statement is misleading. The demolition took place over many days and was visible to the surrounding area. At the time I was working in Sunnyvale and a co-worker took daily ‘progress’ photos of the demolition as it happened.

]]> By: Glenn Thompson /blog/sentinel-of-silicon-valley-the-radar-tower-at-mount-umunhum-is-saved/#comment-87764 Sun, 29 May 2016 03:59:15 +0000 /?p=10933#comment-87764 An interesting article that both brought back memories & provided some surprising new insight for me. Once, back in the 60s, as a teenager, I rode my motorcycle up the Mt. Umunhum road, on through the radar station, & on down the other side, ignoring the stern warnings not to do so. Interestingly enough for me, by 1965, I was being trained to maintain SAGE computers, then deployed to Sioux City Air Base, & finally to Hancock Field, before being discharged in Nov, 1968. I still have considerable SAGE training material saved from my military classes.
One clarification I might make to the narrative: The passage that reads “The station atop Mt. Umunhum was one node in a network of 24 SAGE “direction centers.” is misleading. Almaden Air Force Station was a radar site, not a Direction Center, that fed radar data into a Direction Center, probably Hamilton Air Force Base. The figure of 24 DCs throughout the country sounds correct, although the number varied throughout the SAGE era. There were also a smaller number of or Combat Centers (CCs) to accompany the DCs. This early experience was pivotal to my ultimate career which revolved around IBM mainframe computers, as was the case with a good number of others trained on these systems.

]]> By: Ranger Gaudinski /blog/sentinel-of-silicon-valley-the-radar-tower-at-mount-umunhum-is-saved/#comment-87679 Wed, 25 May 2016 19:43:33 +0000 /?p=10933#comment-87679 In reply to HeatherGail Lovejoy.

Great thanks Heather. I will let you know when we start planning.

]]> By: HeatherGail Lovejoy /blog/sentinel-of-silicon-valley-the-radar-tower-at-mount-umunhum-is-saved/#comment-87677 Wed, 25 May 2016 17:38:50 +0000 /?p=10933#comment-87677 I would be very interested in joining the tour! Thank you for the great article. I learned a lot of historical details I didn’t know!

]]> By: Ranger Gaudinski /blog/sentinel-of-silicon-valley-the-radar-tower-at-mount-umunhum-is-saved/#comment-87646 Wed, 25 May 2016 00:52:48 +0000 /?p=10933#comment-87646 In reply to Tim McMurray.

Will do Tim. If you feel like posting a picture of the tower from your house – on the Facebook post that would be fun.

]]> By: Tim McMurray /blog/sentinel-of-silicon-valley-the-radar-tower-at-mount-umunhum-is-saved/#comment-87644 Wed, 25 May 2016 00:04:08 +0000 /?p=10933#comment-87644 Please add me to the list for the guided hiking tour. I can see the radar tower from my front yard.

]]> By: Ranger Gaudinski /blog/sentinel-of-silicon-valley-the-radar-tower-at-mount-umunhum-is-saved/#comment-87631 Tue, 24 May 2016 21:08:11 +0000 /?p=10933#comment-87631 In reply to Charlotte Hemmer.

Great! I will e-mail you when we schedule it. Thanks.

]]> By: Charlotte Hemmer /blog/sentinel-of-silicon-valley-the-radar-tower-at-mount-umunhum-is-saved/#comment-87627 Tue, 24 May 2016 18:57:03 +0000 /?p=10933#comment-87627 I would love to go on the guided hiking your! Thank you!!

]]> By: Ranger Gaudinski /blog/sentinel-of-silicon-valley-the-radar-tower-at-mount-umunhum-is-saved/#comment-87496 Sat, 21 May 2016 05:48:21 +0000 /?p=10933#comment-87496 In reply to ASHIS poddar.

Thanks. So glad you feel a connection to the tower.
If you go to the Mount Umunhum Conservancy website, linked to several times in the article, you can donate to the cause.

]]> By: ASHIS poddar /blog/sentinel-of-silicon-valley-the-radar-tower-at-mount-umunhum-is-saved/#comment-87494 Sat, 21 May 2016 04:51:26 +0000 /?p=10933#comment-87494 We live right below the mountains of alamaden and love take a guided tour.i would love to help the conservancy in some form or shape if possible.Whenever I drive home back from north, the tower gives a feeling of home-coming after a long tirng day 🙂 thanks to all who put great effort saving this landmark

]]> By: Daniel Rich /blog/sentinel-of-silicon-valley-the-radar-tower-at-mount-umunhum-is-saved/#comment-87482 Fri, 20 May 2016 21:20:33 +0000 /?p=10933#comment-87482 Great piece on the tower, but there I have one correction for you. “… The Blue Cube. It was demolished without warning under the cover of early morning darkness.” — that’s not really accurate, the demolition lasted for months. They started dismantling the building in Sept of 2013 and performed the final demolition over two days in April 2014. The final demolition was somewhat secretive more likely due to the secure nature of the site, not to avoid any preservation attempts.

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