Delano, California

Delano is a city located in Kern County, California. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 38,824. Delano was founded on July 14, 1873 as a railroad town. The name was officially given by the Southern Pacific Railroad in honor of Columbus Delano, at the time the Secretary of the Interior for the United States.

IBB SW Relay Station Delano

The IBB (http://www.ibb.gov/) runs a shortwave relay station in the outskirts of Delano. This relay station is famous for having a rare installation of a TCI HRS 12/6/1 directional curtan array transmission system.

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Although constructed from 1942-1944, this relay station has been added to over time. The IBB transmission network itself has been through many changes since 1942.

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Many of IBB's Delano antennas may no longer be useful with respect to IBB's current audibility or political goals. Perhaps 30% of the existing transmission antennas at Delano are of little geopolical value and could be sold off, donated or re-deployed to other IBB sites.

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The only known shortwave really station known to have similar transmission capacity (and output power) is the Novosibirsk Relay Station in Russian Siberia.

Related Topics:
Novosibirsk - Siberia

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Like most Cold War era shortwave relay stations Delano is now a technolgical anacranism, with the exception of its HRS 12/6/1 transmission system. The ALLISS transmission technology, a product of Tompson-CSF (now called Thales Broadcast) research has seen to this.

Related Topics:
Cold War - ALLISS transmission technology - Thales

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The Delano Relay Station could be partly phased out if IBB were to construct 4 ALLISS SW relay modules in California, New Mexico and Western Texas.

Related Topics:
ALLISS - California - Texas

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The IBB could also acquire (or lease as needed) transmission sites from existing US religious broadcasters and re-optimize its US SW transmission network.

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Although the IBB tries to keep the antenna layout and emission patterns state secrets (in a callous disreguard for public health), the Delano Relay Station is clearly viewable from space via Spot Image and other commerical survailance sattilites.

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Google Maps URL: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=35.754575,-119.283028&spn=0.007858,0.015044&t=k&hl=en

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