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Mr. Luddite[_4_]

On 12/13/2017 9:13 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 17:39:13 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

NSS Annapolis started as a transmitter site in 1918 using an 500
kilowatt arc transmitter. Over the years it was continuously upgraded
for fleet HF and LF communications. The Very Low Frequency (VLF)
transmitter and antennas were constructed during the Cold War for
communicating with our submarine fleet. Satellite communications made
it obsolete and no longer needed.

I thought they still had some VLF stuff. I remember they were
protesting in Alaska because there was some kind of array up there
(HAARP?).
This array was supposed to be capable of talking to a sub under the
polar ice. They said it was screwing up the Caribou and Polar Bears,
maybe even altering human DNA or some other horrible thing. There were
signs hanging around everywhere once you got out of Anchorage.

There are several Navy VLF transmitters still in operation according to Wiki

There's one in Cutler, Maine, another in Washington state, one in
Australia and another in Hawaii. The one in Australia is no longer
operated by the US or Australian Navy. It's operation has been
subcontracted to Raytheon Australia.

I spent a total of four years at two different transmitter sites with
VLF equipment. The one in Ponce, Puerto Rico and the one in Annapolis
have since been decommissioned.