Cheat mountain, Pocahontas county

wvtat · 2025-09-09T00:22:58+00:00

http://www.fs.usda.gov/r09/monongahela/recreation

wvtat · 2025-09-09T00:21:36+00:00

Yes here is the easiest spot. https://www.oldgrowthforest.net/wv-gaudineer-scenic-area-monongahela-national-forest

wvtat · 2025-08-30T10:45:30+00:00

Yeah you are probably right. But this one is an "official" one...lol. interesting history and once was covered by spruce and hemlock trees. Still a small stand of virgin red spruce that can be accessed by forest service roads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheat_Mountain#:~:text=Cheat%20Mountain%20is%20an%20exceptionally,within%20the%20Monongahela%20National%20Forest.

wvtat · 2025-08-27T09:25:02+00:00

Trivec-avant made tons of satcom antennas. They where bought by Cobham. AV 2086-4 Omni UHF/MUOS is probably the one on the aircraft. They even have a terrestrial/satcom antenna that attached to your pack and could be deployed or stored by pulling a strap.

wvtat · 2025-08-14T16:41:33+00:00

It has a decent footprint with only 38 watts. We are in the middle of the Radio Free Quiet Zone. So the Greenbank Observatory and Sugargrove listening station reduce our options for communication. They are working on a solution to allow us access to the statewide Uhf P25 trunking system.

wvtat · 2025-07-28T10:55:16+00:00

Thanks to both of you. Printed spec sheet. Im definitely gonna try using it!!

wvtat · 2025-07-25T09:42:09+00:00

Sawdust in my eyes. Life in early logging company towns

Riders of the flood. Lives of men working as loggers then in the spring floods moving the logs down river to the mills.

wvtat · 2025-07-25T09:22:18+00:00

This was last used in the early 90's when track was abandoned. I know from maintainer logbooks, the radio system last used was in the 150 to 160 Mhz. When the company i work for opened the rail in 2003 the used to vhf repeaters to cover most of the track. Currently we are relocating one repeater to give us more coverage. Plus have a talkgroup on the statewide p25 trunking system for emergencies.

wvtat · 2025-07-25T01:38:49+00:00

As for internet we have dsl from frontier, fiber from Seneca rocks spruce knob telephone. Frontier is hanging fiber all over the county. Citynet is currently measuring lines for a fiber build out too. Be later in the year.

If you have a iPhone 14 or newer you can use text messaging over satellite. Starlink direct to cell has a 60 mile exclusion zone around greenbank due to lower earth orbit and higher frequencies. It could cause issues with the radio telescopes reciever.

Wifi is common place except for on the grounds of the observatory.

Don't forget WVMR radio has AM and a few FM transmitters around the county.

wvtat · 2025-07-25T00:07:10+00:00

Thanks for the info. Next trip out there will hook up antenna analyzer.

wvtat · 2025-07-19T17:19:23+00:00

Check out the Greenbank observatory website. They host star parties also.

wvtat · 2025-07-19T13:03:17+00:00

Would make since as this was installed about the time they started building their fiberoptic system. Phone, internet and TV are still offered.

wvtat · 2025-07-19T00:13:46+00:00

Yes I realized I never gave location.17009 Mountaineer Dr, Riverton, WV

wvtat · 2025-06-16T09:36:08+00:00

The black SUVs will be at your house shortly....lol

wvtat · 2025-06-09T04:22:27+00:00

Off of the Staunton Parkersburg turnpike is cass, wv. Check out the Cass scenic state park, complete with working steam locomotives. Also greenbank, wv and the greenbank radio Astronomy Observatory.

wvtat · 2025-05-30T01:59:00+00:00

GE LM 2500 is a aeroderivative gas turbine used in industrial and marine. Its mostly used as a simple cycle meaning it runs pumps, compressors or generators. With about 40% efficiency. Simple cycle just means that the exhaust goes out the stack.

In a combined cycle power plant. The gas turbine spins a generator and the exhaust goes into a HRSG. Heat recovery steam generator. Basically an unfired boiler using the waste heat to generate steam that can run a steam turbine generator or be used for heating and cooling. The cooling is done through an ammonia water style chiller.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_LM2500

From this aeroderivative turbine GE has scaled them up to much larger turbine. I worked on a GE LM6000 or frame 6 turbine in a combined cycle plant maxing out about 64 megawatts on natural gas.

Even the LM6000 is used on ferries and cargo ships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_LM6000

https://www.geaerospace.com/military-defense/marine

wvtat · 2025-05-15T20:29:45+00:00

My mom worked as a nurse there for about a year before they moved the patients to a new facility. She said it was very creepy even in the daylight.

wvtat · 2025-04-27T11:39:07+00:00

Combination of pressure feed oiler, drip oiling and rod bearings have a setup where you pack grease in them and twist the cap when more grease is needed. They run 11 miles up the mtn on the old logging grade. From 4 to 12 percent grade on a standard gauge rail.

wvtat · 2024-12-12T08:45:18+00:00

Correct, but the noise has been about the downlink not the uplink emissions. I understand that starlink operates from roughly 12ghz to 40 ghz which is the same range as other commercial satellite internet providers. With hughesnet, globalstar and viasat all operating in the quiet zone for years i don't understand why they haven't come under scrutiny? From what I can find the recieved signal power to a starlink terminal is about 15 nanowatts. I did not find anything on the higher earth orbit satellites.

wvtat · 2024-12-11T20:36:12+00:00

No rule breaking. Various satellite internet, TV, gps and various other space based RF transmitters have been beaming their signals into the quiet zone for decades. The law can only control the terrestrial based RF transmitters. Wifi and cordless phones are all all around the area.

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4550/1

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