IIRC, the output from the antenna "polarized" their brain so they had to
keep moving westward at an ever increasing pace.  If they did not, their
head exploded.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert E. Griffith [mailto:bob@JUNGA.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 11:22 AM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [EE]: Underwater RF


There was an X-Files episode where the Navy low frequency communications
caused someone to mutate into something :)

--BobG

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Behalf Of David VanHorn
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 12:45 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [EE]: Underwater RF

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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