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General Category => Huh? => Topic started by: Oliver on April 10, 2016, 0623 UTC
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The former AT&T Lenox Earth Station in Preston County is for sale for $499,000. It has 103 acres of property and a barely used satellite dish.
See more at:
http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/20160409/perfect-man-cave-awaits-buyer-in-rural-preston-county
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That thing is great. AT&T also has (had?) their old Long Lines microwave relay sites.
And with 103 acres, could put up some nice towers for HF antennas.
Map:
https://www.google.com/maps/dir//721+Shatzer+Rd,+Albright,+WV+26519/@39.5688453,-79.5789627,249
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That part of WV has another interesting piece of radio related property for sale. The former Naval listening station at Sugar Grove. You may ask yourself, "Why would the Navy have a listening base at over 3000 feet in a landlocked state?" Because it was actually an NSA facility listening facility for radio, satellite and telcom traffic for decades. It was revealed by journalists as a domestic spying site under the Patriot Act in the latter part of the last decade and shut down. The Feds tried to give it to the state a couple of years back, the Governor said "We don't want it", so there it sits.
George Zeller could hear Martian pirates with his Watkin-Johnsons and the antennas they have there, no problem.
If you buy either, make 'em throw in a snowplow. I-68 near Terra Alta is regularly shut down by snowdrifts between November and April and Sugar Grove is a snow bowl deluxe. Happy bidding!
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Sugar Grove Naval Facility:
http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/20160216/former-navy-base-in-wv-goes-on-the-online-auction-block
That thing is much more expensive, but more complete.
Big snow plow would be nice, but it has a tennis court & a water tower and says its nearly self-sustaining. If the big snows bury the road, big deal. Fill that water tower with beer and heat the tennis court and you'll be all set.
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A rosette of rhombics and/or 3 to 30 log periodics would be lovely.
As well as a milspec emp hardened bunker.