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Boy I'd love to know what that HUGE facility adjacent to the antenna array is/was. The conical antenna is visible in Google street view but no identifying information about the site can be seen. I guess that was the old AT&T facility? A lot of the Havana Moon reports are subject to some... uh... not quite scientific accuracy, notably the articles surrounding the Jupiter Lighthouse site where there were never any good signs of any HF station... but the big missile tracking dish for Cape Canaveral always stimulated the imagination. However, that being said, I did positively identify a station that was reading 5 figure groups in Spanish in a V2a like format in fall of 2006 from a site directly north of Florida International University - across the street from the Sweetwater police station! It was in a then abandoned strip mall housing only one business, a small convenience store... with a wire antenna suspended across the roof. No, it didn't look like the feedline dropped into the convenience store. Would you care for some coded messages with your bag of pork rinds? The funny part is, it was active all through the investigation and the bust of Carlos and Elsa Alvarez, when Elsa worked right across the street at FIU... no idea if it was related to their specific operations though. I wonder who may have logged it around that time - one distinguishing factor to it was, the damn thing had NO consistency. The night I found it, it was on 9.310 AM. Other times it'd been observed in the 40 or 80 meter ham bands, AM or sideband, and sometimes as part of a Morse net. A friend of the family who lived nearby would routinely go find it with his HF radio receiving off a 2 meter 1/4 wave vertical trying to figure it out. It continued operation for a few months and then just ceased to be. The feedline appeared to descend into about where the tattoo parlor is now. https://www.google.com/maps/@25.7629245,-80.3725842,3a,60y,249.64h,85.06t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sgClvuzJ8XlQJuBvwiJu1UA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 I've always wondered about the reports around Palm Beach county and if maybe some of that activity actually was out west of the airport... that area was (and still is) a pretty interesting patchwork of remote and hard to reach places. I used to maintain a couple of FM broadcast transmitters out that way and it was always an amusing maze to navigate to find them! This area also used to have a lot of weird little airstrips on private property and it wouldn't surprise me if the Columbian Cartel would sneak in ... shipments ... there, just like they used to with the runway off Card Sound Road in the Florida Keys... I think my favorite was the one located on the same site as WPTV... it was a whole big complex of towers out there in the middle of nowhere, with one housing a weather radar... I was told that this radar and its tower had actually fallen over at some point in its history and been reconstructed. The TV tower was located in a swampy area that would have been amazing for AM broadcast use as the ground conductivity would have ruled - it was pretty much constantly under mud, if not outright water. Watch out for Broadcast Engineer Eating Mosquitoes. -- -- Tom Morris, KG4CYX Chief Engineer, Results Radio of Redding 786-228-7087 ______________________________________________________________ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
