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- From: tonyz@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Tony Zugates)
- Newsgroups: ba.broadcast
- Subject: Installation near Palo Alto
- Message-ID: <56570001@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 22:47:41 GMT
- Organization: the HP Mtn.View Resp. Cntr.
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- Well, I found out what the radio facility is sitting next to Hiway 101
- next to Palo Alto... I had posted elsewhere on just what this was..
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- It is used for maritime communication..I suspected this, as my front end
- overloads with CW and I suspected it was from this installation as I
- drove by it every day. I thought maritime communication was modern
- in these times and I suspect that other aspects of maritime comm's use
- up to date transmission modes...but CW appears still in use and extremely
- cheap though slow.
-
- One of the towers apparently was used to notify Pearl Harbor of an
- impending attack (which came too late...)
-
- The City of Palo Alto would like to buy the property, but the owner
- wants over 500k while the city has had the property appraised at around
- 350k I think.. now there is a fight between the property owner and
- the city about the duck pond in front.. interesting bit of info I
- thought.
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- Source: Penninsula Times
-