Goldilocks94941
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« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2009, 02:56:32 PM » |
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Nice follow ups to the original posts. And it's not even from "dittoheads"!
Otherwise, is this a once a year event? If I get enough advance warning, next time I can try to monitor from Seattle, if the signals will reach northward. Or make a trip down.
As you might tell from my moniker, I used to live in Marin County, and that old radio site is among my 'sacred places.' I recall, maybe 15 or 20 years ago, coming across an old wooden building, about the size of a one-room schoolhouse (or a 7-11, for a more modern comparison), that was located in a field near that site. The remarkable thing was that the one big room inside the building was empty, apart from being completely covered in copper. I think it was somewhere to the left of the road as you drive toward the lighthouse, and not far from the shortwave tower sites. Recognizing what wire thieves will do for copper, I'm wondering if it still exists, and if any of you on this board have ever peeked into the windows of that building?
Last couple of times I was at Pt Reyes, I couldn't find that building, and no one at the visitor center knew what I was talking about. Even tho it was all locked up at the time I did see it, just peeking into the window of an old building whose walls and ceiling were completely covered in copper plating (I understood it was intended to help boost radio transmissions is some way I can't quite grasp) was an amazing site to behold. And, I imagine, a tough job to keep it intact if it's still there.
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