Word: antennaed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Single Lane. In Charleston, W.Va., Mrs. James A. Haught complained to police that three horses trotting along U.S. 35 stepped on her Volkswagen, dented the roof and hood, twisted the radio antenna...
...magnetic storms. Such microwaves cannot be used in normal long-range radio transmissions, since they do not bend around the curve of the earth, travel only along line-of-sight paths. When a message (Teletype, code or facsimile) is to be sent to Hawaii, an 84-ft. dish antenna at Annapolis, Md. is pointed at the moon. If the weather is overcast, the signal is aimed at the moon's calculated position-clouds do not affect it. The 100-kw. signal fades to a faint whisper during its 480,000-mile trip, but it slants down from space...