AT&T High Seas Station ... demolished

[KG4CGC]

Looks like they're destroying another piece of HF history.

https://www.workboat.com/news/coastal-inland-waterways/historic-att-high-seas-radio-station-demolished/



The remains of shortwave radio station WOO — for decades the Atlantic coast hub of American Telephone & Telegraph’s high seas radio service — will likely disappear in the coming weeks.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service with contractor Amec Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure Inc., plans to remove more than 500 antennas and poles (http://www.nj.com/ocean/index.ssf/2017/01/odd_historical_pole_field_from_defunct_att_site_to .html#incart_river_home) that stud 222 acres of salt marsh on New Jersey’s Barnegat Bay.

[NQ6U]

Too bad, but at least KPH, RCA's equivalent facility on the west coast, is still there.

[KG4CGC]

Wouldn't you just love to scavenge some wire and aluminum? Maybe some other assorted parts?

[NQ6U]

Wouldn't you just love to scavenge some wire and aluminum? Maybe some other assorted parts?

Aluminum, super heavy duty copper wire by the mile, tubes with handles. The possibilities are endless.

[WZ7U]

tubes with handles

Aahhhh tubes


with handles

[KG4CGC]

toobs

[WZ7U]

Wouldn't you just love to scavenge some wire and aluminum? Maybe some other assorted parts?

A monster hell yeah!

[W7XF]

toobs

You forget that a certain operator in Saanich, BC "heartidly" referred to the "toob woith handles".....

[KG4CGC]

You forget that a certain operator in Saanich, BC "heartidly" referred to the "toob woith handles".....

A toob worthy of an engine hoist.

[WZ7U]

I bet all the really good stuff went away years ago and all that's left is the junk

[KG4CGC]

I bet all the really good stuff went away years ago and all that's left is the junk

Or remolish it in a smaller footprint as an AR station.

[WZ7U]

The salt marsh would make one helluva good reflector........

A few poles for a 160 loop (probably nvis at that band), set up an inverted L.....

Yeah. Could be good

[VE7DCW]

You can see the site is overgrown with vegetation and it does look like what's left of the station is the wire of the antenna's and the support poles and masts and a few utility electrical supply cables for the transmitter building.I can't really tell from the photograph,but it seems the windows are missing from the building which could mean that the transmitters and whatever associated electrical equipment may have been gutted long ago.......another sad footnote in the history of marine HF shore to ship and ship to shore telephone communications.......... :(

[KG4CGC]

And I would have got away with it too if it weren't for you meddling kids.

[KG4NEL]

Went the way of the Sterba curtains at the Greenville VOA site :(

[W3WN]

Gee. US F&WS. Former antenna farm now being used as a wildlife sanctuary.

Sad to say, why is anyone surprised? From what I've read, they've been itching to do this for a long time, and now they've diverted money from the Hurricane Sandy clean-up funds to do just that.

What a waste. There's absolutely no reason the two can't peacefully co-exist, but try telling that to F&WS.

[NQ6U]

Gee. US F&WS. Former antenna farm now being used as a wildlife sanctuary.

Sad to say, why is anyone surprised? From what I've read, they've been itching to do this for a long time, and now they've diverted money from the Hurricane Sandy clean-up funds to do just that.

What a waste. There's absolutely no reason the two can't peacefully co-exist, but try telling that to F&WS.

I don't understand your post; we're talking about an abandoned radio station that's not doing anyone any good. If it had been maintained, the way KPH has, then your argument would make some sense but it hasn't--it's nothing more than an abandoned building and some posts.