This brings into question the planners thinking about OPSEC once the base is in its active role. One school of thought is that COMINT leakage is not a problem, because the base is working and revealing its location is not an issue. The other would be the planners knew of some persistent threat and felt the need to maintain proactive measures to counter COMINT.
Giving the events at Prime Base with Krell, it would seem the former to be the case. However Bruce knew, according to 4th ed canon, that Krell was a persistent threat to the Project. We also know the Bruce did not want to be included in the planning for Prime Base so he has no knowledge of its location and presumably little input into its planning. It is also possible that Bruce passed information to the planners early that there may be parties that would make trouble at Prime if its location were haphazardly announced, and pushed for signals security even in the active phase.
Each of these scenarios have problems reconciling the published events at Prime and secrecy of the base's construction and passive operational phase. As already mentioned, the physical interconnecting of the antennas and the transmitters introduces secrecy challenges. Because if someone it curious enough, they will ask themselves why there are all these antennas interconnected and terminating at this fiber optic cable going off into uninhabited desert mountains and they will try to find out.
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