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Google Is Building a Big, Mysterious Radio Transmitter in the Desert
- finnn 11y agoOriginally found by hackaday[0] from the FCC[1] [0]: http://hackaday.com/2016/03/02/google-is-building-a-100kw-radio-transmitter-at-a-spaceport-and-no-one-knows-why/ http://hackaday.com/2016/03/02/google-is-building-a-100kw-ra... [1]:https://apps.fcc.gov/els/GetAtt.html?id=173188&x= https://apps.fcc.gov/els/GetAtt.html?id=173188&x=
- dbcurtis 11y agoKiloWatts and GigaHertz? Ummm... just wow. Other than big mother military radars, that much power at that high a frequency is.... unusual.
- hatsunearu 11y agoIt's suspicious. Because at gigahertz you definitely cannot go above the radio horizon even at very high powers. So it must be trying to either do non-communications tasks, or point upwards into space, so it can do comms with things in orbit.
- techabuse 11y agoThe ERP numbers are misleading. I've read elsewhere that the transmitter's output at the antenna connector is on the order of a half watt.