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Matt Blaze@federate.social to Photography@fedia.io · 1 month ago

KGEI Transmitter Building, Redwood City, CA, 2024.

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KGEI Transmitter Building, Redwood City, CA, 2024.

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Matt Blaze@federate.social to Photography@fedia.io · 1 month ago
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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

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    @[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

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      @[email protected] Thanks for this! I could barely make the plaque in the original.

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