Knew about this place for a while - it is a collection of communications transmitters for emergency services and state operations located about 20 miles away. It - for some reason - was located in the bottom of a valley. You want antennas to be high up for them to have the best distance but for some reason...
There is something very unusual about this particular site:
Nothing really out of the ordinary apparent here - let us get a little closer with our zoom lens.
An unusual structure for the base. There is a lattice of support structure, a very large black insulator (about three feet tall - these are large towers) and then the actual radiating part of the antenna. The final power amplifiers for the transmitter are also raised about fifteen feet above the ground.
This is carried over to the transmitter and backup power generator - again, about fifteen feet above ground level:
Again, this array is located in a valley bottom - a valley which floods regularly. Many times in spring, this piece of land is under five or ten feet of water. The rest of the valley floor is agricultural land and the farmhouses are built on higher ground.
I have no reason why they built here but they took great pains to be able to be on the air 24/7.
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