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KGEI Transmitter Building, Redwood City, CA, 2024.
All the pixels, none of the RF radiation, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54131707918
Captured with the Rodenstock 50mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One IQ4-150 digital back, Cambo 1250 camera (vertically shifted -5mm).
This modest but handsome, art-deco-accented building was built in 1941 to house the transmitter for "KGEI", a commercial shortwave radio broadcast station whose programming could be heard across the Pacific. It shut down for good in 1994.
KGEI was a 250KW commercial shortwave international radio broadcast station. Originally constructed, owned and operated by General Electric, the station opened in 1939 on San Francisco's Treasure Island. In 1941, it moved to a permanent site in Redwood City. This building housed the transmitter and control facilities; the exterior walls are three feet thick, to better resist any WW II enemy bombings. At the time, KGEI was the only US broadcast station capable of reaching across the Pacific.
@mattblaze It's always cool to come across references to Redwood City (I live there). Do you know where this is more particularly?
@blp @mattblaze
I believe it is here, technically in Redwood Shores. When I lived out there I used to spend hours & hours walking the nature paths in this little area.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=37.547222&mlon=-122.233333&zoom=15#map=17/37.546096/-122.233973
@dragonsidedd @mattblaze oh I've walked near it before!