PeoplesElbow
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My point has nothing to do with subs but the RF spectrum available for flight test. Want to transmit a signal there has to be room to do it.
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I have fond memories of conducting RADHAZ tests on an emergency basis to get AH-64s cleared to operate off of Navy assets. Maybe around 1986?...at the ground plane test area on Dahlgren. We were testing around the clock and on weekends. Nobody informed the local RC aeroplane club that enjoyed the use of an open grassy field about 2-300 yards from our location. Took a while before I realized that every time we keyed a 100V/m RF blast.....the whine from the RC planes would go crazy and then abruptly end as their toy impacted the ground. LMAO..
Clem72
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Okay, I get you. Yuma and Irwin/China Lake probably have a decent setback and spectrum control. I can't imagine you can radiate much of anything at Pt. Magu without FCC jumping your crap. And from my (admittedly a few years out of date) experience, the military will defer to FCC for any decision on possible spectrum conflicts even when the particular frequency is wholly managed by the military.
kwillia
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Decisions our local commissioners make affect local infrastructure. Local infrastructure is great consideration when the DoD is making future plans.
jrt_ms1995
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You have my sincerest thanks!
glhs837
Power with Control
You have my sincerest thanks!
Just that small token makes the endless hours of drudgery all worthwhile.
glhs837
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NorthBeachPerso
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I remember several years ago when the wheeling and dealing was going on about where to put slots, or in Calvert's case video lottery terminals.
When Solomon's was floated as a location the Navy, in the form of the base commander, told the three Boards of Commissioners, the Tri-County Council and the combined Legislative delegations that if any of the three Counties got new slots (Chesapeake Beach already had them, or rather video lottery terminals) the Navy would explore the potential of moving all the programs out, and would most likely do so.
My God you could almost hear the sphincters slam shut.
PeoplesElbow
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That's funny, because this decision is so far above the base commander. Talk about a poker face.
glhs837
Power with Control
No kidding. His role is akin to the guy who leases property to the Mafia.
NorthBeachPerso
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It is. Everyone involved knew that the Captain was transmitting policy. It was already public knowledge at the time in any event.
PeoplesElbow
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It sounds more like he was morally opposed to gambling and using "the navy" as weight. There is gambling fairly close to quite a few navy bases, not to mention tons of tittie bars.
NorthBeachPerso
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Maybe, but that was an undercurrent here for years. You know yourself the Navy has a long institutional memory and some mention was made that it didn't want to see the same things now as were seen when slots were here before.
I think some of it was that there were some who wanted to recreate the old days where every gas station, restaurant, bar, grocery store, etc. had a machine or six.
Having said the above, when I was involved in Naval Aviation forty (40) years ago there was talk then that the area was getting too built up and PAX functions might have to be moved. Of course back then most of the emphasis was drilling holes in the sky.