It is located off the Kamehameha Highway just inland from the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii, south of Kawela Bay.

[4] Under the command of Col. Wilfred H. Tetley the AWS established six mobile radar detector sites on O'ahu at Kawaiola, Wainaae, Kaʻaʻawa, Koko Head, Schofield Barracks, and Fort Shafter.

The set comprised four trucks carrying the transmitter, modulator, water cooler, receiver, oscilloscope, operator, generator and antenna.

[3][5] Tyler reasoned that the activity was a flight of Army B-17 Flying Fortress bombers, and advised the radar crew not to worry.

Tyler told investigators that a friend in the Bomber group advised him that whenever the radio station played Hawaiian music all night, a flight from the mainland was arriving, and using that for navigation homing.

[3] Today, a modern Navy telecommunications station occupies the top of the Opana Hill adjacent to the site.