Thoughts? Well, a link to the photo would be nice. I don't right click
block. Hell, I don't even put the website name on the photos.

I guess you mean this photograph:
http://www.lazygranch.com/images/basecamp/firetruck.jpg
The antenna certainly is a blade antenna. This is pretty common
practice. In fact, I use a rami blade on a piazza pan for a mil-air
antenna.

Here is a rami blade
http://www.rami.com/military/air/antenna-info.cfm?pid=11


The truck has a shovel on the side, probably for shoveling dirt on the
fire. I assume there is a real fire-truck on the base, but it wasn't
parked behind the firehouse.  IIRC, ufomind has a good photo of the
firehouse.

I would expect basecamp to have more than your average number of
kludges since the place is of dubious ownership. [Nellis, TTR, Langley
Parachute Club?] That is, how do you assign assests to a place that is
off the books? So they probably scrounge up a light bar here, a blade
antenna there, etc.  [As you probably know, some Groom Lake assets show
up on the books as Odgen Air Logistics.]