At 11:45 AM 7/10/01 -0500, you wrote:
>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.

If you do a web search for "ELF michigan wisconsin", information will
pop up. It's fairly controversial, there have been protests- this is
the comm system that can order a full-fledged nuclear Trident strike.

It's also a pale shadow of what they'd like to build, probably to get
higher data rates than the current sub-Telex rates.

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