Aguada transmission station
Encyclopedia
Aguada transmission station is a facility of the US Navy for transmitting orders to submerged submarines near Aguada
in Puerto Rico at 18°23'55"N 67°10'38"W by using radio waves in the low frequency range.
Aguada transmission station, which works on 40.75 kHz with the callsign NAU, had originally 3 guyed towers. From these two were dismantled. Only the tallest with a height of 367.3 metres ( 1205 ft) is still standing and in use. It is the tallest structure in Puerto Rico
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Aguada
Aguada is a town and municipality of the Santander Department in northeastern Colombia.-References: Aguada is also a name of a town located in Puerto Rico....
in Puerto Rico at 18°23'55"N 67°10'38"W by using radio waves in the low frequency range.
Aguada transmission station, which works on 40.75 kHz with the callsign NAU, had originally 3 guyed towers. From these two were dismantled. Only the tallest with a height of 367.3 metres ( 1205 ft) is still standing and in use. It is the tallest structure in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
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External links
- http://www.naic.edu/~phil/rfi/rfilist.html
- http://www.navy-radio.com/commsta/puerto-rico.htm