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Shortwave "Discone" Antenna, Former AT&T High Seas Radio Site, Ocean Gate, NJ, 2009.

All the pixels, somewhat obsolete, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4141766569/

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[-] mattblaze@federate.social 3 points 2 months ago

Captured with a DSLR and a 24mm shifting lens.

During the 20th century, AT&T operated a shortwave "radiotelephone" service for vessels on the high seas. Ships could contact an operator, who could connect them with any landline telephone number they wished.

The North Atlantic station, callsign WOO, occupied expansive transmit and receive "antenna farms" in marshlands near the shore in central New Jersey.

Rendered obsolete by satellites, the service ceased operation on November 9, 1999.

[-] OvertonDoors@infosec.exchange 1 points 2 months ago

@mattblaze@federate.social look up Lualualei ELF in wikipedia, we still have one!

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