I am – Hercules!!


Last week brought a “John From Cincinnati” in which the title character did not appear!

HBO says:

Episode #10: "His Visit: Day Nine" (season finale)
Debut: SUNDAY, AUG. 12
Butchie (Brian Van Holt) and Kai (Keala Kennelly) wake up to a joyous revelation; Imperial Beach plays host to a makeshift parade organized by a revamped Stinkweed. Written by Zach Whedon; directed by Dan Minahan.

A reader writes:

I read your JFC post and you said: "Say. What's with that circle of chain-link John Monad keeps staring at?"

I read this over at TivoCommunity.com:

Actually, that thing is called a Circular Disposed Antenna Array (CDAA). My husband recognized it from his time in the Navy when they first showed it several episodes ago. It was part of the Imperial Beach Naval Security Group Command, which is no longer active. It is a large circular antenna array used by the military to triangulate radio signals for radio navigation, intelligence gathering and search and rescue.

Below are some pictures and explanations of what it does. Personally, I find it extremely fascinating that the show is making use of something like this.

Cheryl

photo of antenna array

http://www.navycthistory.com/IB_JackSmith_1.html

CDAA = circular diposed antenna array
Nicknames - elephant cage, wullenweber

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wullenweber

Purpose - High Frequency Direction Finding - detecting particular radio signals.

http://www.navycthistory.com/Imperial_beach_intro.html

local.live.com has a great overhead view of the one in IB.

If you zoom out, you can see it is right down the street from the El Camino Motel, where the Snug Harbor scenes are shot.

Dennis
CloverfieldClues.com

Is this a season finale or a series finale?

The two top HBO execs said at the channel’s Television Critics Association presentation several weeks ago that “Cincinnati” had not yet received an order for a second season, but talkbacker “AnimalStructure” keeps telling us some friends of his are already preparing to shoot season two this autumn.

9 p.m. Sunday. HBO.

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$97.99 At The Moment!!

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