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

[Tom Azlin, N4ZPT]

and another interesting page with many tropo links around the world...

http://rammstein.dfmk.hu/~s200/tropo.html

73, Tom n4zpt

Michael O'Dell wrote:
> 
> http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=card+sound+road,+florida&sll=37.579413,-95.712891&sspn=46.626969,71.103516&ie=UTF8&ll=25.325609,-80.404121&spn=0.001644,0.00217&t=h&z=19
> 
> 
> 
> take a look at the two antennas facing southwest. they sure look like
> tropo antennas
> 
> in fact, Wikimapia has the details....
> 
> http://wikimapia.org/#lat=25.3229931&lon=-80.4039788&z=17&l=0&m=a&v=2&search=troposcatter
> 
> 
> 
> and 
> http://wikimapia.org/#lat=25.3192011&lon=-80.3459358&z=13&l=0&m=a&v=2&search=troposcatter
> 
> 
> 
> and here's its mate in Cuba!
> 
> http://wikimapia.org/#lat=23.163888&lon=-82.155303&z=18&l=0&m=a&v=2&search=troposcatter
> 
> 
> 
> 
> in fact, searching for "troposcatter" in wikimapia produces a number
> of juicy things
> 
> 
> 
> if you look a bit further up Card Sound Road, there's clear evidence
> of what sure looks like a decomissioned Wullenwebber DF site.
> 
> there's on of those near Boca Chica Key that's still working. sitting
> in a hotel in Key West i've overheard contractors talking about a
> major antenna overhaul they were doing at the site.
> 
> -mo
> 
> 
> 
> Richard Barth wrote:
>> 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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