krj wrote in
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No, It was BMEWS. Each of the three antennas was 165' x 400' and weighed
2 million pounds. Operated at 425 mhz with 5 megawatts.
krj


425 Mhz I can handle....The chirping of the OTH radars on HF is awful.

For years I've been using NAVSPASUR CW radar on 217 Mhz to monitor meteor
scatter blips during meteor showers. This thing runs 3 transmitters in the
megawatt range for space surveillance.
http://www.fas.org/spp/military/prog.../spasur_at.htm
http://www.k5kj.net/meteor.htm
When the moon is overhead, you can hear its 800KW (Alabama) signal all the
time bouncing off the moon.
Nasa has a receiver on the net using SPASUR in, of all places, Roswell, NM.
It's address is:
http://science.nasa.gov/audio/meteor/navspasur.m3u
But I couldn't get winamp to connect to it just now....

Low-band VHF TV is good for meteor scatter reception, but Charleston has
316KW transmitters on channels 2, 4 and 5 so that puts out so much noise on
the bad as to be useless, here.

--
Larry