I don't normally get excited by antennas but motoring up to this array as
the turn around point of our trip gave me the feeling you get when you look
at one of the biggest and most impressive of anything. 26 1000 foot tall
towers all interconnected with the most fantastic web of wires and bed
spring like arrangements you can imagine. It transmits at 25 Mhz to tell
our nuke subs which cities to vaporize. If there is a war, presumably a
nuke will go off just above it within one or two milliseconds of the ones
that go off over Washington DC. Strange to think that this wild and remote
spot is Ground 0.1.

http://home.maine.rr.com/rlma/Cutler.jpg

We motored right up to the dock where the sign says, "Do not approach within
300 feet." With typical government common sense, the type size is such that
the sign can't be read until you are within 100 feet. No signs of security
or any human presence except for a single van parked next to the
administration building. There is a building with about a dozen very large
diesel engine exhausts sticking out of the roof so I imagine this sucker
pumps out some real power.

There is something in the cruising guide about the transmissions from this
facility also being a prime means of measuring sunspot or solar activity due
to their effect on the ionosphere.

You can see the layout on Google Earth right at the end of our trip. They
don't bother to hide the towers on the chart, unlike the more impressive
structure that used to be in Prospect Harbor. In the curious blank spot on
the chart used to be a circle of towers about a mile in diameter and nearly
as tall as these. Around the top of the towers ran a flat coil of huge
diameter cable. The strands were maybe a foot in diameter and the entire
coil was wider than a highway. I don't know when this was dismantled but I
think it was still there when I went through in the mid 80's. No sign of
the remains or tower foundations visible on Google Earth that I can see.

--
Roger Long