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- From: rick@rgb.com (Rick Davis)
- Newsgroups: ba.broadcast
- Subject: Re: Installation near Palo Alto
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.003356.1943@rgb.com>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 00:33:56 GMT
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- Well, last year ( or the year before last, depending when you see this ) I
- worked next door to that site, and took many strolls around the property.
- We used it like an open-air private meeting room. Anyway, the antennas are
- long-wire shortwave style, seemingly one for each band they operate on.
- There are both slant wire-tower combinations and horizontal arrays. They
- look to have been added at diffent times.
- The land around there is a real environnmental nightmare; the county dump
- is just over a levee and it seems to seep into the groundwater there. There are
- many foul-smelling pools of noxious liquids dribbling around the property.
- There are huge chunks of concrete everywhere; it looks like the site was
- entirely paved over at one point long ago. Amongst this debris there are
- a healthy population of rabbits and snakes, along with the ubiquitous rats
- and other small rodents. We refered to our meetings in this area as
- "snake walks", since the most successful meetings were those at which we
- actually saw snakes.
- As far as the radio emissions from the site, they are extremely strong.
- We were working on a video project, and it was very difficult to keep
- their noise out of our circuits. We actually had to go off-site to make
- our own noise measurements. At the time I was practicing for my Tech
- licence, so I tried to copy some of the signals at around 12 MHz but they
- were going to fast for me to get anything more that the station ID. We
- did have one guy who could copy some of their code from watching the
- noise bursts on the scopes though.
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- All 4 now;
- Rick Davis
- N6ZWI ( I did pass that tech test after all)
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