VLF Transmitter Woodside

VLF Transmitter Woodside

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Woodside Omega Transmitter ( station G, now Woodside VLF transmitter) near Woodside, Victoria, Australia at coord|38.481228|S|146.935294|E) uses an umbrella antenna carried by a 432 metre high grounded lattice steel guyed mast. This mast is the highest construction in the southern hemisphere. After the shutdown of OMEGA it was used until 2004 as transmitter for orders to submarines on 13 kHz under the callsign VL3DEF. Today it works on 18.6 kHz.

Construction of this station was originally planned at New Zealand but after protests from anti-war protestors it was built in Australia.


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