Re: Chopmist Hill, Rhode Island's Secret Listening Post in WWII
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Too bad they did not have a few K4D and maybe some KX2 for portable stations. Steve WM6P
On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 7:21 AM Eric Howell < erhowell@...> wrote: Interesting article. I do like the quote from the article. ? ¡°It was not the receptivity of the location, but the advanced secret radio equipment used there that made Chopmist Hill¡¯s place in history.¡± He added, ¡°Though reception was remarkably good, it was 99 percent knowhow that created such a success between 1941 and 1945.¡± ? Just before Pearl Harbor, Chopmist Hill in Scituate, R.I., was the center of the world. That¡¯s what the Federal Communications Commission discovered in 1941. The hill¡¯s geographic and atmospheric conditions were extremely favorable for radio reception, and its receivers could grab wireless signals from much of the globe....
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Steve