At 11:13 AM 7/10/01 -0400, Olin Lathrop wrote:
> > No doubt billions of $$$ has been spent by the Navy. Don'cha know 8^)
>
>I thought the navy used very long wave transmission at a low data rate to
>send messages to its submarines (when they can't surface).  I remember
>hearing there is an antenna many miles long on the upper penninsula of
>Michgan for this purpose.  Of course, you never know how real or unreal
>things are you "hear" about military projects.

It's real. I used to live near one facility at Lualualei.
1MW at something like 19 kHz.
The newer ones are even lower freq, and I think more power.


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