- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
KGEI Transmitter Building, Redwood City, CA, 2024.
All the pixels, no radio required, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54131707918
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KGEI Transmitter Building, Redwood City, CA, 2024.
All the pixels, no radio required, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54131707918
#photography
@[email protected] (they also added a historical plaque, I think from the DAR, which you can barely read in the full res version of the photo).
@[email protected] Here’s a crop of the plaque (upscaled to 200%, with some somewhat mangled auto-detected alt-text)
![Text from plaque (autodetected):
International Broadcast Station KGEI | KGEI was a short-wave radio station established by - General Electric Company inc 1939, Oniginally located at the = i Golden Gate Expsition on Treasore {sland in San Frincisco 1 Buy, it was later moved to the Peninsuls to accommodate the . indrallatiort of & larger (Rmsmitier. kn B2 SRR S [ R A 3 structure was-buale with three-feet thick eoncrere walls, v ceifings and floors to withstand bomb explosions, 3 During World War OI, KGEO transmitred Gerteral MagArthur’s e 3 fUC TRl e o R T T T B T B BT 2T : broadcast from Austrslia, At the time, it was the only Anterican Broadeas(ing station that could be w b regularly heard in Asia, - T R TRy A e e g T O Vallc; Clean Warer, | P the wastewater sgency operated jointly by Belmort, ‘ Redwuod City; San Cados, and West Bay Sgnitary Distriet. | : Dedfcated by the Guspas de Portold Chapter National Society Diaughrers of the Ameriea Revolution : : August 28, 2021 i
@[email protected] Thanks for this! I could barely make the plaque in the original.