SGT Folly Lake was one of two such facilities in Canada and was located on the west slope of an unnamed hill along the eastern side of the Wentworth Valley, opposite Higgins Mountain.
It was owned by the Department of National Defence and operated by Canadian Forces personnel as a lodger unit of CFB Halifax.
The 13.716 m (45.00 ft) diameter satellite uplink dish was located on a perfectly flat concrete pad shielded by the Radar Dome.
The dish had electro-mechanical actuators and was constantly tracking a NATO satellite positioned in geosynchronous orbit off the coast of Africa which broadcast a signal in the Super High Frequency (SHF).
In this signal there could be 10,000 different channels of information which was received at SGT Folly Lake by a low-noise amplifier located on the dish.