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Tobin S. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-06-10 07:39 PM
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Can anyone tell me what these are used for?
Edited on Fri Aug-06-10 07:44 PM by Tobin S.
These are next to me at the truck stop. That's a building that they are next to so you can see that they are quite large. I don't think that's DirecTV.

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Duer 157099 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-06-10 07:42 PM
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1. Satellite tracking? ET communication? n/t
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-06-10 07:55 PM
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2. Nuclear missile launching pads.
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rrneck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-06-10 08:02 PM
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3. They're watching YOU!
Which is good because I was tired of them watching ME. :tinfoilhat:
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Tobin S. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-06-10 08:07 PM
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4. Well they don't have to look very far. I'm right across the street
Really, Agent Mike, we should do lunch sometime. :)
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-06-10 08:08 PM
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5. Those dishes are pointed at geostationary satellites...
...I think, as they look too clunky to move much. More than one satellite, too. I gather that this picture was taken looking roughly east?

Looks like a major comm facility, like unto a cable TV distributor. If you have the address, should be easy to identify.
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Tobin S. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-06-10 08:11 PM
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6. They are pointed west except for one pointed south
No address.
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-06-10 08:13 PM
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7. I think one of them might be the TACAN station they stole from 29 palms, CA. nt
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-07-10 08:31 AM
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13. The don't look like any TACAN station I've ever seen
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-06-10 08:16 PM
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8. Satellite dishes.
Edited on Fri Aug-06-10 08:17 PM by elleng
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liberaltrucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-06-10 08:20 PM
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9. That's the Dish Network uplink facility east of Cheyenne, WY
Near the terminal of my former employer.
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Tobin S. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-06-10 08:23 PM
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10. I'm in Spokane
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liberaltrucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-06-10 08:24 PM
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11. Oopsie....
:blush:
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Tobin S. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-06-10 08:30 PM
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12. lol!
I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing with you. :) This thread is turning into something silly anyway.
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Monique1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-07-10 08:37 AM
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14. I see them near my house in Az
the area has a Cox communication sign on the fence.
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