Tropo-scatter site on Card Sound Road....

[Richard Barth]

Tropo?  You sure?  In this day of satellites, I didn't think we were 
using tropo for much of
anything any more.  It's been strongly discouraged for some time -- 
too wasteful of spectrum.

At 04:04 PM 6/17/2009, Mike O'Dell wrote:

>I was playing with Google Earth to see if i could
>get a better idea of what it is, and yes siree bob!
>
>There's a tropo scatter site on Card Sound Road just
>"logical north" of Alabama Jacks (far south florida)
>
>i was trying to guess where it was pointed because
>i don't remember seeing anything that looked like
>it might be the mate down the Keys (and it's flat
>enough that hiding much is hard). seems to be pointed
>about 45 degrees west of south - hmmm could it be Gitmo?
>
>i'll have to go looking. (grin)
>
>but i thought someone on the list might just "know"
>for some odd, random reason, and might even be able
>to admit it. (grin)
>
>         -mo
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