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Author Topic: City Dump Growth Blocks Radio Waves  (Read 5390 times)

tybee

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City Dump Growth Blocks Radio Waves
« on: April 24, 2025, 1456 UTC »
This isn't about broadcast radio, its actually reffering to the microwave communication system towers used by the county and city public safety departments, but still I never heard a story like this one..
The city dump is getting so high that officials are having difficulty  communicationing by radio..  It just occurred to me that the top of that landfill would be an ideal place to put a 100% compliant part 15 AM 3 meter whip and ground lead (if used) install.

Landfill growing so high it could block radio waves; City, County OK fix
https://www.wane.com/top-stories/landfill-growing-so-high-it-could-block-radio-waves-city-county-ok-fix/amp/


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Re: City Dump Growth Blocks Radio Waves? Believable...
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2025, 1647 UTC »
Huh... Reminds me of when I worked in telecom for Dominion Gas. Over at the Prattsburg, NY 6GHz relay tower site, Steuben County had proposed building a Wind Turbine Farm Array, just 1/3 mile South of the tower, with a main signal coming from that direction for the tower site. I knew that the Wind Farm would reek havoc with the 6GHz signal path. So, I raised that alarm with my supervisors and company engineers. That, was 2009. I left Dominion in 2010. Do you think that they did anything about it? At this point, don't know, don't care, but I doubt it.   
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