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Lualualei VLF transmitter

Coordinates: 21°25′11.87″N 158°08′53.67″W / 21.4199639°N 158.1482417°W / 21.4199639; -158.1482417
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VLF transmitter Lualualei, Mast 1
Map
General information
StatusCompleted
TypeMast radiator insulated against ground
LocationLualualei, Hawaii, United States
Coordinates21°25′13.38″N 158°09′14.35″W / 21.4203833°N 158.1539861°W / 21.4203833; -158.1539861
Completed1972
Height458.11 m (1,503.0 ft)
Design and construction
Main contractorUS Navy
VLF transmitter Lualualei, Mast 2
Map
General information
StatusCompleted
TypeMast radiator insulated against ground
LocationLualualei, Hawaii, United States
Coordinates21°25′11.87″N 158°08′53.67″W / 21.4199639°N 158.1482417°W / 21.4199639; -158.1482417
Completed1972
Height458.11 m (1,503.0 ft)
Design and construction
Main contractorUS Navy

VLF transmitter Lualualei is a facility of the United States Navy near Lualualei, Hawaii transmitting orders to submerged submarines in the very low frequency (VLF) range.

Description

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VLF transmitter Lualuale operates under the callsign NPM on 21.4 kHz and 23.4 kHz.

The station's current antenna was built in 1972; it consists of two guyed masts, each 458.11 metres (1503 feet) tall, which are configured as umbrella antennas. They are fed by an overhead cable, fixed to a tall mast at one end, and at the opposite end to a smaller grounded mast near the helix building via an insulator.

At the time they were built, they were the tallest towers used for military purposes in the Western hemisphere.[1] The two masts are also the tallest towers used for long wave transmissions in the Western hemisphere. Since the collapse of Warsaw Radio Mast, they may be the world's tallest structures that are electrically insulated from the ground.

See also

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Sources

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  1. ^ Graff, Garrett M. (2 May 2017). Raven Rock: The story of the U.S. Government's secret plan to save itself – while the rest of us die. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781476735405.
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