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Floyd Davidson wrote:
> 
> "Michael A. Terrell" <michaelaterrell@netscape.net> wrote:
> >Bob Wilson wrote:
> >> hmbdude@nospamcotse.com says...
> >>
> >> >"completely unkown in North America"? Maybe in Canada, but in other parts
> >> >of North America WWVB offers equivalent functionality for consumer and
> >> >professional applications.
> >>
> >> Just as an added comment to my previous post, you seem not to understand the
> >> principles of longwave transmission, if you think that WWVB will stop at
> >> at the Canadian border!
> >
> >More condescending crap!
> >>
> >> WWVB transmits from Fort Collins, at a frequency of 60KHz. The reason for
> >> this ultra-low frequency is to eliminate directionality, and to allow its
> >> ground wave to travel large distances. Yes, even into our homes in Canada
> >> that (as every American "knows") are igloos, and where it snows continuously
> >> as soon as you cross the 49th parallel.
> >>
> >> Bob.
> >
> > I was stationed at Ft Greely Alaska for a year, and as the Eskimos
> >around the base told me, the only Igloos they ever saw were in "White
> >man's books"
> 
> In that case, nobody should believe a word you say!
> 
> I lived a few miles up the road for a couple of _decades_...
> and it happens there are virtually *no* Eskimos from the Delta
> Junction area.  That is Athabascan Indian territory, and always
> has been!  Did you really think those Indians were Eskimos????
> 
> (However, I'll concede that I have a whole family of Eskimos,
> and not one of my in-laws claims that any ancestor of theirs
> ever built an igloo.  The Polar Eskimos in northern central
> Canada used igloos for temporary shelter, but no other Eskimos
> did.)
> 
> >  As far as the snow, Ft Greely was between two mountain ranges, and
> >after a while it got too cold and dry to snow.  BTW, the base was the US
> >Army cold weather test site, and I had the fun job of keeping a radio
> >and television station on the air, in that climate.
> 
> Why danged... that must have been difficult, inside those nice
> heated buildings and all... ;-)
> 
> --
> Floyd L. Davidson         <http://www.ptialaska.net/~floyd>
> Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)                 floyd@barrow.com

Yes, Floyd, there were some on the base.  The US government brought kids
in to let them use the schools, and I didn't spend all my time on the
base.  Heated buildings?  The radio transmitter was in a 10' by 10'
shack with no heat.  The TV transmitter  was in an old mess hall
building, and most days it was around 50-55 degrees in the control room,
unless it got really windy, and it would get even colder.  The station
was on the OLD part of the base, built when it was an Air Force base in
WWII.  The barracks were a couple miles away, and they weren't bad, but
the old wooden buildings were crap.  I also remember that you worked on
the old Microwave systems up there, from talking to you in the past.
(White Alice)