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July 16, 2021

Talk About An Antenna Farm...

... that desperately needs harvesting...

 

On Steve K9ZW's blog WITH VARYING FREQUENCY – AMATEUR RADIO PONDERINGS, this story is a hoot:

IT ISN’T LONG DELAYED ECHOS, RATHER A DRONE TRANSMITTER NEVER TURNED OFF.. ZOMBIE TRANSMITTERS

Exerpt:

This “Mystery Transmitter” is very close to a survey done in 1978 of the Pentagon Rooftop.

At the time I was specializing in Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM). Anyway, our detachment commander was asked by the Secretary of Defense to “Survey the roof and find out what’s up there”.

So, about 10 of us Technicians went to the roof...

Read the rest here (well worth it).


Thanks for reading!
Steve Stroh N8GNJ
Bellingham, Washington, USA

 

Posted by on July 16, 2021 at 10:49 PM in Radio - Other |

  • About Steve Stroh N8GNJ

    Truth be told, to my fellow Amateur Radio Operators, Amateur Packet Radio was my first love. It combined three of my technological passions - radio communications, computers, and data communications. When I moved to the Seattle area in 1987, I fell in with a bad crowd which over the decades has become known as the "WETNET Mafia". That group built a number of Amateur Radio data repeaters (full regeneration) operating at 9600 bps, and operated TCP/IP (concurrent with the opening of the Internet to "civilians").

    I've sporadically written about Amateur Radio data communications over the years, including periods of writing for (and very briefly, editing) the TAPR Packet Status Register (PSR) newsletter, and a column in CQ Amateur Radio magazine.

    As of 2020, I'm semi-retired and living in Bellingham, Washington and devoting much of my time to exploring Amateur Radio Data Communications.

    I'm the Editor of Zero Retries Newsletter which discusses technological innovation in Amateur Radio.

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