Trained in Southern California, under IV Fighter Command initially equipped with specifically modified twin-seat black painted P-38M Lightnings equipped with AN/APS-6 radar in an external radome underneath the nose, relocated radio equipment and anti-flash gun muzzles.
The system used two, later three, hydrogen filled balloons positioned above each other along a common tether to support a 9 metre diameter resin-bonded terylene spherical radome inflated by a built-in fan to a pressure of 980 pascals (10 cm H2O).
A radome containing Primary Surveillance radar (PSR) and Secondary Surveillance Radar (SSR) antennae, various towers and fencing crown the summit.
In 1967 Kaminski installed a 20 meter parabolic antenna in a radome, with which all Apollo missions were followed.
Because of their distinctive barrel-shaped radome and their automated nature of operation, Phalanx CIWS units are sometimes nicknamed "R2-D2" after the famous droid from Star Wars.
In the 1980s the station was used as the site for a Met Office weather radar station with a 'golf ball' styled Radome, still in use today.