[AT] Garden tractor???/Now RF hazard

[Mike Sloane]

I worked with a Bell Labs employee who was stationed for a while at the 
company's installation on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. There 
was a huge radar array that was used for detecting test missiles fired 
at them by the US Navy. In front of the array was the island's little 
golf course, and when the radar was being fired up for a test, they 
would blow a siren in advance and everyone would leave the course 
immediately. How much danger there was, nobody knew, but they weren't 
taking any chances!

Mike

charliehill wrote:
> There is an "urban legend" around these parts about a guy who lived right 
> up against the fence of a Navy Base in the Norfolk, Va. Beach area of VA. 
> He was supposedly a radar expert that worked for the base.  He built some 
> sort of antenna/concentrator that he used to gather RF from the radar at the 
> base and was powering his house with it until the base found out and made 
> him stop.
> 
> I have no idea if that is possible or true.  It was told to me by a guy who 
> worked there at the same time.  He was also some sort of radar tech and he 
> seemed to believe it.
> 
> Charlie