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For non-hams, "high frequncy" here refers to the "HF" band of roughly 3-30MHz. Or, as anyone else might call it, low frequency. Afaik, it didn't work at whate
by creeble 7y ago
For non-hams, "high frequncy" here refers to the "HF" band of roughly 3-30MHz.
Or, as anyone else might call it, low frequency.
Afaik, it didn't work at whatever it was trying to do, which IIIRC had something to do with submarines.
- dylan604 7y agoThat was one of the stated purposes. They thought that they would be able to communicate with deeply submerged submarines with something more than 3 letter codes using ELF. They also thought they would be able to communicate further distances by reflecting the signals off of the ionosphere. They also thought they could disrupt warheads on re-entry. There was a lot of ideas about this place. I guess when you are getting the government to fund such a project it's going to need a lot of things it can pivot to when the original idea fails.