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thunder
 
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On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:45:21 +0000, Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:


They still have one out in Wisconsin and Michigan I think.


According to this, they were shut down and disassembled recently (2004).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZEVS


The interesting thing about ELF is that it can take up to 2 hours, 53
minutes to receive one letter. The shortest is something on the order of
15 minutes I think.


I had to do a little reading on this. My thick skull couldn't fathom why
it would take so long, interesting stuff. A general overview:

http://www.elfrad.com/clam.htm

Been a while since I read up on it. I don't think they use the ELF system
anymore.