One Serious wire array

[KB1IAW]

Just returned home from three plus weeks on the boat. This shot was taken from the water as we cruised through the Cross Island Narrows. This is just one of the twenty some odd towers at the US Navy's VLF radio station in Cutler, Maine near the Canadian border. Formerly used for communications with submarines and the Atlantic fleet, it's now being decomissioned and it may be sold off to become a LNG terminal.

[W1RKW]

Cool array. Sucks that it won't be no more.

[KB1IAW]

Looks like they may have already started dismantling things. The structure around the center tower appeared to be staging wrapped with poly tarps around it's base. Two of the other towers in this photo have staging at two levels with people working on them. These are just a small portion of what is there.

[AB3L]

http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=cutler,me&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&ll=44.643132,-67.287054&spn=0.030107,0.085831

We looked at this a while back but the Google map really gived you an idea of the size of the lot there at Cutler.
Just grab and pull the picture till the lighter land mass with the dots on it is in the center then zoom in.

Looking at the tarps makes me think that there might be abatement for lead paint going on. If so it might be a very expensive job going on there.

I have a lucite block here that has a piece of round steel in it from the old KDKA tower. Complete with lead paint. I remember being told that it had to be placed in the lucite to protect people since these were given out to comemerate the 75 year anniversary of the radio side.