Had I won yesterday's $540 Million Mega Millions
Lottery, I'd be tempted to buy this beautiful
former NSA monitoring post site for its
surrounding beauty, serenity and awesome weak RF
signal monitoring characteristics. It's inside
of one of the official U.S. Radio Quiet Zones. A
perfect DX location--with rooms for all SWLfest attendees.
Some of the homes could be rented out to people
who wear tin foil hats because they feel that RF
signals are screwing with their brain. Free labor.
-bernieS
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2016 18:04:14 -0400
To: [email protected]
From: bernieS <[email protected]>
Subject: Sugar Grove, West Virginia NSA listening post site up for auction
If I'd won yesterday's $540 Million Mega
Millions Lottery, I'd be tempted to buy this
beautiful former NSA monitoring post site for
its serenity and awesome weak RF signal
monitoring characteristics. An awesome DX'ing location.
Some of the homes could be rented out free to
people who wear tin foil hats because they feel
that RF signals are screwing with their brain,
in exchange for them maintaining the site.
-bernieS
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/shuttered-west-virginia-naval-base-ready-auction-article-1.2646312
Shuttered West Virginia naval base Sugar Grove
Station ready for auction with $1M starting bid
Shuttered West Virginia naval base ready for auction
BY Nicole Hensley
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Monday, May 23, 2016, 4:35 AM
A bidder with at least $1 million to spare could
soon call a shuttered naval base facility in
West Virginias Allegheny Mountains home, sweet home.
While ghost town sales have offered refuge to
potential buyers with just a handful of homes,
storefronts and other amenities, the former
Sugar Grove Station has 80 homes scattered
across an expansive 123 acres along the George Washington National Forest.
The Navy Information Operations Command booted
hundreds of contractors and employees who lived
in the single-family residences when the
government closed the campus in September 2015.
Interested buyers have been touring the remote
facility 170 miles southwest of Washington D.C.
since Thursday. The property has been lurking on
the U.S. General Services Administration auction block since February.
Eerie photos of abandoned places from around the world
A closing date will not be announced until after
a second open house scheduled for Thursday, according to the Washington Post.
[Image: NR] The former Sugar Grove Station
is going up for auction, with a starting bid of
$1 million. (Tim Wright/Getty Images/Corbis Documentary)
<http://realestatesales.gov/ATTACHMENT/REGNP/PEACH416004001/SugarGoveIFB.pdf>A
request for bids pitches the facility as a
provincial site free from noise and smog.
This area of West Virginia presents an
ever-changing picture that delights the eye and
rests the nerves, it reads, painting the site
as an ideal buy for a movie studio, university or resort.
You would be hard pressed to find such fresh
air and church-like stillness anywhere else.
The site was initially offered to the West
Virginia Department of Corrections as a womens
prison, but Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin believed the
proposal was too costly, the Metro News reported last year.
The General Services Administration are inviting
bidders to tour the former Sugar Grove Station
before it goes up for auction. (The Washington Post/Getty Images)
Although the town is equipped with dozens of
amenities such as a community center, fire
station, bowling alley and a baseball diamond,
the town has a caveat. It will require at least
$4.6 million in annual upkeep, the Washington Post warned.
The six decades of government operations on the
property are evident. Its located in one of the
countrys Radio Quiet Zone, which bans radio
transmissions that could interfere with the
National Radio Astronomy Observatory 28 miles west of the town in Green Bank.
Its also home to giant parabolic dishes that
documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward
Snowden linked to the NSA collection of international cell phone data.
Those dishes are not part of the auction, the Post reported.
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