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Pat Flannery wrote:

jmfbahciv wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote:
jmfbahciv wrote:

You don't know how bad things can get. Snow, sleet, and frozen
rain can coat anything with inches of stuff in that region.

I live in North Dakota, and the same thing can happen around here,
despite it being as flat as a billiard table.
This could mean that the rectennas are limited to the southern parts of
the continent to escape being covered in ice.
In regards to satellite TV that's inconvenient, but when your power grid
is relying on it it becomes critical.
They are better in the south anyway, as a GEO SPS is higher in the sky
from there, so the rectenna array can be more round in shape.

Pat,
As a North Country Sasquatch, coming from the shadow of Mt. Washington
itself, I have to say that you don't have a clue wrt the weather in that
region. When we talk about inches, it's in multiples of 4.
People from up there move to North Dakota for the nicer climate.
The conditions that BAH are referring to are such that candidates for the
Amundson/Scott Station are trained there, so that they won't complain about
the conditions at the South Pole.
The Standard Issue Walking Stick for the Mt. Washington Observatory in
winter is a 5' steel pry bar. Anything else and you'll blow away.

More s.s.h content - The Andover, ME, satellite uplink/downlink station
isn't vary far from there.
Oh, yeah - the Regional High School for Bethel, and Lock Mills, ME, and the
surrounding villiages is Telstar Regional High.

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Pete Stickney
Who can make lunch out of a red Jordan's Hot Dog, a bag of Humpty-Dumpty
Potato Chips, and a bottle of Moxie.