[Spooks] site 58.007757, 28.20354 Was: MDZhB Transmitter Site

[Matt Johnson]

Regarding the site at 58.007757, 28.20354
([1]http://goo.gl/maps/0aAS0), check out this [2]Wikipedia entry[1] on
extremely low frequency transmissions (ELF). Quoted below:



Building an ELF transmitter is a formidable challenge, as they have to
work at incredibly long wavelength...



...one has to find an area with very low ground conductivity (a
requirement opposite to usual radio transmitter sites), bury two huge
electrodes in the ground at different sites, and then feed lines to
them from a station in the middle...



"The antenna is very inefficient. To drive it, a dedicated power plant
seems to be required..."[emphasis mine]


I see a small sub-station to the southeast a few hundred yards, but I
don't see dedicated power plant nearby.

If huge electrodes need to be buried, one might expect to see
excavation on site as shown in the upper left part of the Google Maps
image.

At the Wikipedia link, look at the at the Clam Lake ELF site photo next
to the text.  It kind of jogged my memory as to what I was looking at
back on December 20th with Mikes first post in this thread!

Might this site be a Extremely Low Frequency site?

[1]
[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_with_submarines#Extremely
_low_frequency

----- Original message -----
From: Mike Tibor <tibor at tibor.org>
To: spooks at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Spooks] MDZhB Transmitter Site
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 12:22:52 -0900 (AKST)
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Has anyone found the probable location of the current MDZhB/UVB-76
transmitter site? The best I can see is that it's narrowed down to "the
Pskov region". I've never seen any references that get more specific
than that.

I may have found one possibility:

58.007757, 28.20354

I have no idea if that might be it, but the location's about right. It
has what appears to be a tall microwave tower similar in size to the
one
at the old UVB-76 site. It also has a nearby power substation just to
the
southeast. Unfortunately I can't see anything that resembles an HF
antenna in the area.

I'm sure I'm not the first to find this size in Google Maps, but I
haven't
seen any talk about it anywhere, so I was curious.
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References

1. http://goo.gl/maps/0aAS0
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_with_submarines#Extremely_low_frequency
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_with_submarines#Extremely_low_frequency