Google Is Building a Big, Mysterious Radio Transmitter in the Desert (popularmechanics.com) 22 points by mgberlin 10y ago ↗ HN
[–] finnn 10y ago ↗ Originally found by hackaday[0] from the FCC[1][0]: http://hackaday.com/2016/03/02/google-is-building-a-100kw-ra...[1]:https://apps.fcc.gov/els/GetAtt.html?id=173188&x=
[–] dbcurtis 10y ago ↗ KiloWatts and GigaHertz? Ummm... just wow. Other than big mother military radars, that much power at that high a frequency is.... unusual. [–] hatsunearu 10y ago ↗ It's suspicious. Because at gigahertz you definitely cannot go above the radio horizon even at very high powers. So it must be trying to either do non-communications tasks, or point upwards into space, so it can do comms with things in orbit.
[–] hatsunearu 10y ago ↗ It's suspicious. Because at gigahertz you definitely cannot go above the radio horizon even at very high powers. So it must be trying to either do non-communications tasks, or point upwards into space, so it can do comms with things in orbit.
[–] techabuse 10y ago ↗ The ERP numbers are misleading. I've read elsewhere that the transmitter's output at the antenna connector is on the order of a half watt.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 24.3 ms ] thread[0]: http://hackaday.com/2016/03/02/google-is-building-a-100kw-ra...
[1]:https://apps.fcc.gov/els/GetAtt.html?id=173188&x=