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Like most early radar stations, {{{AFS}}} originally had separate radio transmitter and receiver sites used by local controllers for voice direction of fighter interceptors to their targets. With SAGE, the SAGE Direction centers had the primary task of directing intercepts and the local radio sites were reconfigured, usually into a single site that was known as the Ground to Air Transmitter Receiver (GATR) site. The GATR site communicated with the interceptors from either the local site or the SAGE direction center via voice commands and/or a digital data link.