[TowerTalk] OT: Voice of America Transmitter Site Exhibition in Los Angeles

[Eric Rosenberg]

The following article was in the LA Times last week:

>'Voice of America’ exhibition is a fascinating look at early shortwave 
>radio

>“Long before cell towers started sprouting up everywhere, the federal 
>government commissioned telecommunication companies to build five 
>massive fields of shortwave radio antennae. The structures, which 
>reached up to 450 feet, were located in out-of-the-way places in 
>California, Ohio and North Carolina. Each was designed to bounce radio 
>waves off the ionosphere, allowing federally produced programming to be 
>transmitted all over the globe.”

>"The antennae are the stars of the show. They appear in photographs, in 
>videos and on touch-screen monitors. Arranged in grids, arcs and 
>asymmetrical arrays, they resemble high-tech fishing nets, impossibly 
>spindly bridges, supersized spirit catchers and otherworldly telephone 
>poles. Sculpturally impressive, they make Land Art look fussy, precious 
>and small."
>
The complete article (with pictures):  
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2019-07-29/shortwave-exhibition-center-land-use-interpretation

The exhibit is at The Center for Land Use Interpretation (in Culver 
City) through October 27. More on the exhibit at:  
http://clui.org/section/voice-america-long-reach-shortwave

Enjoy!


73,
Eric W3DQ