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From: gnome@olivea.atc.olivetti.com (Gary)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Reflectors on Black Mt
Message-ID: <49824@olivea.atc.olivetti.com>
Date: 14 Nov 90 02:31:28 GMT
References: <1917.273a6fc9@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, CA
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 > In article <1990Nov7.203538.4076@src.dec.com>, murray@src.dec.com (Hal Murray) writes:
 >> Anybody know what they are reflecting and to where?
 >> 
 >> The weird thing about them is that they are not back to back, but more
 >> like front to front with a big offset.  It might be a double bounce,
 >> but that seems very strange.  I couldn't see that they were pointing
 >> anyplace interesting.

I think that they are microwave HBO reflectors used to balance the
signal strength over a large coverage area.
This is for the terrestrial microwave system, not satellite.

Gary