Google Is Building a Big, Mysterious Radio Transmitter in the Desert(popularmechanics.com)

Google Is Building a Big, Mysterious Radio Transmitter in the Desert

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a19750/google-is-building-a-big-mysterious-radio-transmitter-in-the-desert/

4 comments

finnn10년 전

Originally found by hackaday[0] from the FCC[1]

[0]: http://hackaday.com/2016/03/02/google-is-building-a-100kw-ra...

[1]:https://apps.fcc.gov/els/GetAtt.html?id=173188&x=

techabuse10년 전

The ERP numbers are misleading. I've read elsewhere that the transmitter's output at the antenna connector is on the order of a half watt.

dbcurtis10년 전

KiloWatts and GigaHertz? Ummm... just wow. Other than big mother military radars, that much power at that high a frequency is.... unusual.

hatsunearu10년 전

It's suspicious. Because at gigahertz you definitely cannot go above the radio horizon even at very high powers. So it must be trying to either do non-communications tasks, or point upwards into space, so it can do comms with things in orbit.