[MilCom] Radio Project--Soon to Come to Life!

[Airshowfreak5 at aol.com]

Forwarding this to the group for a buddy of mine:
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Radio  Project--Soon to Come to Life!

Myself and another area monitor have been  working on putting a remote  
operated receiver in operation on a 3300  foot mountain top here in
North Georgia for about the past 5 months. Well,  it's finally looking
like it's going to be up and running soon. I just  received some of the
final approvals from the owner of the  antenna site  on Ogelthorpe
Mountain in Jasper, Georgia. This mountain antenna  site  also hosts
FAA ATC RCAG for the Ogelthorpe sector for Atlanta Center and  a  few
other private antenna sites. The tower that my antenna is going  on 
is  at 100 feet, Putting antenna elevation at around 3400 feet.  Also
the building  that the Icom receiver and PC are setup in has it's  own
dedicated DSL line for  my radio and PC. The building also has a  large
military generator for power  backup and is climate controlled.  From
this extreme elevation it is absolutely  unreal how far you can  hear
aircraft that are in the air. For airborne  transmissions, I  estimate
coverage from around Mississippi to lower Ohio to Northern  Florida.
This will include many MOA's and offshore warning areas.

For  an antenna system I am using an Ant-197 military discone due to
it's ability  to survive extreme weather conditions that it would be
subjected to  on  this mountain. Also, I have added some notch filters
to the setup to   prevent receiver de-sensing from adjacent
transmitters. For coax, I am going  to  use LMR-600 and inline surge
protectors and other lightning  protection equipment.

If you are familiar with the popular site  www.dxtuners.com,
it will work much the same  as those receivers. You  will connect 
via the Internet and will operate the control software from  your PC. I
have no interest in making money from this setup, Just a very  lucky
opportunity that I have to get access to such a great antenna  site.
The general interest of the receiver will be milair communications.  

I am coming to all the area monitors that would be interested in  the
use of the radio for a few reasons. First of all, I would love to  hear
from anyone with  comments or suggestions. I am also gauging  interest
in the project, So if you  would like access to use the radio  please
let me know. Please send your emails  to vampire11 at comcast.net .  

I plan on pushing the audio out via a live feed at first with  a
chatroom. Only the site operators(myself and another) will  have
control  privilege until I understand more about bandwidth issues  and
get the bugs  out. After things are worked out I will start  granting
people that have interest in control privileges.

This is  looking to be an exciting and powerful milair listening tool!
I  look  forward to hearing from the group with all your comments and  
suggestions.

Jody KG4FVG
North Georgia