{"id":17609,"date":"2016-03-04T08:16:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T12:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=17609"},"modified":"2016-03-04T08:16:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T12:16:18","slug":"googles-96-4-kilowatt-experimental-transmitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/googles-96-4-kilowatt-experimental-transmitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s 96.4 kilowatt experimental transmitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/spaceport-virgin.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17610\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17610\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/spaceport-virgin.jpg\" alt=\"spaceport-virgin\" width=\"640\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/spaceport-virgin.jpg 640w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/spaceport-virgin-300x116.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/spaceport-virgin-500x193.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dan Robinson, for sharing the following story:<\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2016\/03\/02\/google-is-building-a-100kw-radio-transmitter-at-a-spaceport-and-no-one-knows-why\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hackaday<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>[&#8230;]In a publication released last week, Google asked the FCC to treat some information relating to radio experiments as confidential. These experiments involve highly directional and therefore high power [96.4 kilowatt] transmissions at 2.5 GHz, 5.8GHz, 24GHz, 71-76GHz, and 81-86GHz. These experiments will take place at Spaceport America, a 12,000 foot runway in the middle of New Mexico occasionally used by SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, and now Google.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>For the most part, this document only tells the FCC that Google won\u2019t be causing harmful interference in their radio experiments. There few other details, save for what bands and transmitters Google will be using and an experimental radio license call sign (WI9XZE) that doesn\u2019t show up in the FCC database.[&#8230;]<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2016\/03\/02\/google-is-building-a-100kw-radio-transmitter-at-a-spaceport-and-no-one-knows-why\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article at Hackaday&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.fcc.gov\/els\/GetAtt.html?id=173188&amp;x=\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read FCC\u00a0File No. 0142-EX-PL-2016 (Google Public Redacted Version).<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, for sharing the following story: (Source: Hackaday) [&#8230;]In a publication released last week, Google asked the FCC to treat some information relating to radio experiments as confidential. These experiments involve highly directional and therefore high power [96.4 kilowatt] transmissions at 2.5 GHz, 5.8GHz, 24GHz, 71-76GHz, and 81-86GHz. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[92,3354],"class_list":["post-17609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-google","tag-hackaday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4A1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":63912,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/noise-reduction-ideas-via-hackaday-electronics-unmessed\/","url_meta":{"origin":17609,"position":0},"title":"Noise-Reduction Ideas via Hackaday &#038; Electronics Unmessed","author":"Thomas","date":"September 9, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Dennis Dura for sharing this excellent Hackaday feature: Quieting That Radio. 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Using long-wavelength LF and VLF\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Oscar-Zero_Missile_Alert_Facility_Minuteman_ICBM_Launch_Control_20100410.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Oscar-Zero_Missile_Alert_Facility_Minuteman_ICBM_Launch_Control_20100410.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Oscar-Zero_Missile_Alert_Facility_Minuteman_ICBM_Launch_Control_20100410.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":40023,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/al-williams-hackaday-article-about-moon-bounce\/","url_meta":{"origin":17609,"position":2},"title":"Al Williams&#8217; Hackaday article about Moon Bounce","author":"Thomas","date":"October 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Southgate ARC) Al Williams WD5GNR\u00a0writes on Hackaday about bouncing amateur radio signals off the moon One of the great things about ham radio is that isn\u2019t just one hobby. Some people like to chit chat, some like to work foreign countries, some prepare for emergencies, and there are several\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ham Radio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ham Radio","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/ham-radio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/77_lro_full-moon-NASA.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/77_lro_full-moon-NASA.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/77_lro_full-moon-NASA.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/77_lro_full-moon-NASA.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":15792,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/hackaday-recounts-an-an-unlikely-radio-story\/","url_meta":{"origin":17609,"position":3},"title":"Hackaday recounts an &#8220;An Unlikely Radio Story&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"November 26, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader,\u00a0Michael Letterle, who shares this story from the excellent website Hackaday. 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