Cabuyao Mountain PTO Troposcatter Commolink (Tuba) | military, tropospheric scatter station, radiocommunication

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  Pinoy Powah (guest)

  Climate control platform? Uh, okay. Actually, this is a 'tropospheric scatter' radio transmitter station built in the late 50's/early 60's (?) by the Americans when communications satellites were still a fuzzy idea on somebody's drawing board. These monsters worked by bouncing powerful radio signals off the troposphere down to a recipient station to the distant North, most probably an American military base in South Korea or Japan. These stations are built in 'relay chains' so they can pass on a transmission from point to point in the shortest period of time. Kinda cool, when you think about it... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troposcatter

  18 years ago | reply | hide comment
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  dj kyle (guest)

  really? i wish i can build my own fm radio station and build a 200 meter tower here... haha!!! transmitter power of 25,000 watts! yeah! that rocks! haha

  17 years ago | reply | hide comment
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  nediejaninajian

  we often joke about this as "ears of mickey"

  12 years ago | reply | hide comment
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  Kamigz (guest)

  Back in the day, we used to call them 'blowers', as answer to the question 'what makes baguio cool?'...

  9 years ago | reply | hide comment