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United Nations Secretariat Building, NYC, 2021. (fedia.io)

submitted 5 months ago by mattblaze@federate.social to c/photography@fedia.io

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United Nations Secretariat Building, NYC, 2021.

All the pixels, with simultaneous translation into multiple languages, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51381729335

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[–] auroran@mastodon.social 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@mattblaze@federate.social The vertical is for ham HF? Interesting. I could picture other reasons for HF, but wouldn't expect ham.

[–] mattblaze@federate.social 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@auroran@mastodon.social Yeah, there's a small but active amateur radio club for the staff and friends there (4U1UN).

[–] n1vux@mastodon.radio 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@mattblaze@federate.social @auroran@mastodon.social
Geopolitical-aware nerds at the UN, figures.

I would expect the station would be dual-use in a communications emergency. There's usually a reason besides staff morale to allow roof use like that: contingencies.

I wouldn't be surprised if they had a Rockwell full coverage 5kW 0-30Mc transceiver from the supply available to the state CD bunkers in 1950s-60s. Beautiful.

[–] mattblaze@federate.social 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@n1vux@mastodon.radio @auroran@mastodon.social Way back when I visited a few times, it was just some higher-end Yaesu rig. I think the station is just amateur; the NY UN HQ isn't where most the operational stuff (peacekeeping, etc) is based.

[–] mattblaze@federate.social 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

@n1vux@mastodon.radio @auroran@mastodon.social Also, it's an off the shelf HF amateur-band-only vertical, not the monster wideband log periodic that you see on typical "real" gov't type stations.

[–] n1vux@mastodon.radio 1 points 5 months ago

@mattblaze@federate.social @auroran@mastodon.social
Looks really nice in your photo!

[–] n1vux@mastodon.radio 1 points 5 months ago

@mattblaze@federate.social @auroran@mastodon.social
Ah well, then it's at best a limited contingency for Secretary General to get a voice connection to some besieged capital. I expected better of a cold war institution.
(OTOH that would've been a decent contingency 50 years ago.)