old 1,000,000 Watt (1MW) Transmitter

Here is an old footage of a 1 mega watt navy transmitter.

I will upload video to my own site when it goes live in a week or so.

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[andypandy202000]

how does the signal get to the other side of the earth? surely the whole planet will get in the way...

[steviebboy69]

it bounced of the ionosphere, an upper layer of the atmosphere. then reflects back down to earth then back up.

its called skip.

thats also why you hear local AM radio during the day and distant stations at night

[jeroen3nl]

lets steal it and use it for pirate radio !

[RMoribayashi]

"Admiral" Sarnoff. Yeah, right. And I'm Captain Video.

[sdold]

@wb6vuy Good question. I wondered the same thing, probably just done that way for the movie. That's pretty much the same key I started with as a novice.

[wb6vuy]

Why is the CW key disconnected?

[NipkowDisk]

Thanks for posting this great clip about NLK! Many years ago I was driving up near Lake Riley and happened to catch a glimpse of the "big clothesline" antenna, it was WAY cool. I heard they also had to de-tune the fluorescent lights in nearby homes because they would pulse in unison with code, even when the lights were off!

[TheLCusi]

um... so they can communicate to the ships on the other side of the planet, but how would the ships message back without the 1MW transmitter? lol, pretty pointless if you ask me. it is basically a one way radio for everything that is out of range of the receivers radio.

[TheMilkywayboy]

Press on video => bend space and time

[fnordist]

@G0IFI

you know the propaganda in those days?

[G0IFI]

Great video!

The Old Radio Luxemburg transmitter on 1440 khz ran at 1.2 million watts.

Megawatt stations are common these days, especially on the Long Wave bands but for its day this one was the shiznits.

I can't remember what power the British "Aspidistra" transmitter ran at during ww2 but it was enough to create a signal strong enough in Germany to overpower the German ones and make fake announcements to the German public.