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sipa February 27th 06 01:04 PM

Q: GWEN
 
Hi all!

First, please excuse me for my bad English :)

Does any one have link(s) to papers or referates about gwen (ground wave
emergency network). I found some links trying google but with no good
details.

If someone have paper on hard-drive too, please send it to my adress


Thanx a lot!

73!
Greeting from Croatia, 9A

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PAZNJA! NEPRIJATELJ PRISLUSKUJE



Verstaldin February 27th 06 01:18 PM

GWEN
 
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=GWEN

Try this link to a google search. As I recall, GWEN was deactivated some
years ago with the shifting political fortunes of the "cold war" and the
changing mission of our nuclear submarine fleet.



Verstaldin February 27th 06 01:41 PM

GWEN
 
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...+emergency+net


"sipa" wrote in message
...
Hi all!

First, please excuse me for my bad English :)

Does any one have link(s) to papers or referates about gwen (ground wave
emergency network). I found some links trying google but with no good
details.

If someone have paper on hard-drive too, please send it to my adress


Thanx a lot!

73!
Greeting from Croatia, 9A

--
PAZNJA! NEPRIJATELJ PRISLUSKUJE





Mark Zenier February 27th 06 05:44 PM

GWEN
 
In article . net,
Verstaldin wrote:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=GWEN

Try this link to a google search. As I recall, GWEN was deactivated some
years ago with the shifting political fortunes of the "cold war" and the
changing mission of our nuclear submarine fleet.


It wasn't something to do with the submarine fleet, it was a digital
packet radio network, for either FEMA or the DOD, that ran in the Lowfer
band, around 170 kHz with fairly high (10 kw?) power. The idea was that
it was a survivable network where they could put a bunch of packet relay
tranceivers all across the country in rural areas.

It ran into the NIMBY factor and the Peace Movement. The thought that
your town out in the sticks could become the target of a nuclear attack
just because they put up a tower and a shed full of transmitters caused
a lot of opposition.

Too slow (bits per second) for the cost was probably a factor.

Mark Zenier
Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)



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