The DRB proposed a site between five and six hundred miles from the Churchill Rocket Research Range, which was already being used for extensive aurora research with their rocketry program. Such a location would allow the radars to directly measure the effects of aurora on radar by tracking the rocket launches. Eventually a site outside Prince Albert, Saskatchewan was selected; it has been suggested this was due to it being Prime Minister's John Diefenbaker home riding. The new site was opened in June 1959, known as the Prince Albert Radar Laboratory, or PARL.