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Big radar dishes near Mulholland & Decker?
Went for a drive this morning in the Santa Monica mountains and spotted big radar dishes off of Mulholland near Decker. Never noticed them before - maybe because I usually come up from PCH rather than go down towards PCH. Anyway, does anybody know what these are? They're huge and it seems like an odd spot because they're a lower altitude than some of the surrounding mountains. They're clearly visible on Google maps satellite view.
 
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I saw those from the air the other day and pretty much made the same comment.
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How else do you expect the mothership to get HDTV?
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They've been there forever, or so it seems to me anyway. When we fly the Sadde 6 arrival into LAX form VTU, we always come right over the top of them. I can spot them from miles away. I always wondered what they were for. Satellite tracking maybe?
Well, I did some research, and it seems those three dishes make up the "Triunfo Pass Earth Station", owned by AT&T. They are used for incoming and outgoing telephone and HDTV signals to and from satellites, mostly out to the Pacific rim it seems. Last edited by 450knotOffice; 11-06-2010 at 01:59 PM.. |
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It reminds me of "repeater stations". Picks up a weak signal from one directions and sends the stronger amplified signal back out.
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owned by AT&T and out to the pacific rim hee hee... you earthling are so gullible! The Galactic federation pays a pretty penny to have our HDTV beamed up to Pluto!
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Gold star for Scott. Thanks much. Did some googling with the name and found this photo:
 Credit and more photos here: Bill Westphal's Photo Gallery - Triunfo Pass Earth Station
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sure, that's what *they* want you to believe...
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Don't make us come down there and probe you!!!!
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just for fun, find the NSA tap and cut it
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