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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: ba.broadcast
- Subject: Re: Installation near Palo Alto
- Message-ID: <ubvt564@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 06:40:09 GMT
- References: <56570001@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com> <56570002@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com> <ejQQrAAIBh107h@grafex.Cupertino.CA.US> <1993Jan1.003356.1943@rgb.com>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <1993Jan1.003356.1943@rgb.com> rick@rgb.com (Rick Davis) writes:
- | 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.
-
- Nope. Large low frequency transmitters have pretty complex antennas.
- I don't know how many frequencies they actually transmit on, but it
- is a far smaller number than the number of wires. For an even large
- example, go look at the large antenna arrays up on Pt. Reyes (also
- for marine communications).
-
- | 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.
-
- They look pretty typical of most marshes I've been in (that are *not*
- polluted). Perhaps I've missed some bad ones on the property, but
- I'll bet it is normal marsh decay products.
-
- | 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
-
- Nope; never. Those huge chunks are anchors for antenna arrays that
- are no longer there.
-
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
-