Lets get going on some of this soon. Where is it?? What was it used for first?? Who put it there?? and how did Danielle know how to change the transmission??
My first big thing I've been running in my head is this. What was it for when it was first put up? Because I can't see that anyone would have built it for the original reason of sending a distress signal. I'm going to flop back into the military well again here. I'm thinking in the realms of it being used to help keep other surrounding islands in touch during WWII. Or it could have been used more as a relay tower then also. Just catching a signal from one station in the pacific. Then boosts the power a bit, and keeps sending it on it's way to the next stop.
That repeater business was very common before, during, and immediately after WW2 among those scattered pacific islands, what they did was to use paired frequencies several kilocycles apart. One island would transmit on freq. a, the next island in the chain would receive on freq. a and re-transmit on freq. b. The next island in the chain would receive on freq. b and re-transmit on freq. a, and so on and so forth across the ocean. It sounds rather clumsy but it worked rather well and did the job. More coming.
Dug out the dvd of the epi shortly after they got into the hatch,cavern, whatever, that shows the base of the tower, looking thru some windows. It was not on camera long enough to get a good look at it, and since you were looking at the very bottom section of the tower I was trying to guesstimate how tall it was with not much success. We don't know whether it was free standing or if it had guy wires holding it upright. If we had seen another section or two we might have been able to guess it's height by how rapidly it was tapering. If it was free standing I would estimate from 60 to 150 ft, If it had a series of guy wires all bets are off, it could be in the hundreds of feet high.
I don't remember being able to see the radio tower at all. I remember talk of the tower at Black Rock (which I assume is not the ship), but nothing else. Could you be more specific about where it is seen (what episode)?
I don't remember being able to see the radio tower at all. I remember talk of the tower at Black Rock (which I assume is not the ship), but nothing else. Could you be more specific about where it is seen (what episode)?
That's me also...I don't remember seeing that. Also if we di see it. Why then when Sayid made the locator for the signal did they travel way up into the hills instead of around the hatch?
I cried, "Oh, Lady Midnight, I fear that you grow old, the stars eat your body and the wind makes you cold." "If we cry now," she said, "it will just be ignored."
how could a radio tower not be seen on this island from somewhere??? is it overgrown in some way?? but wouldn't it still have a familiar form??? or is it perhaps a bit more modern and a dish?? again, overgrown, but wouldn't that be easier to disguise???
One thing that i remember about the Radio tower is that Danielle said that her team heard the Numbers in a radio transmision and went to investigate and then crashed on the island. and she said that her team mates looked around on the island and found the Radio tower and after she killed her whloe team she went to the tower and changed the transmision to her distress call.
KIL, if you were going to change the outgoing message you would have to do so at the transmitter, not the antenna. We really have no clue in-re. the nature and location of the transmitter. I have suspected for a long time the transmitter is located in another hatch/cavern somewhere under or very near the black rock. You can have a transmitter in one location and control it from another, tv/radio stations do it all the time. You generally try to keep your transmitter as close as possible to your antenna, the shorter the antenna cable the lower the line loss and the stronger the radiated signal. There are just too many unknowns to make a sensible determination. Maybe in a few years they will give us enough information to make a S.W.A.G. ( scientific wild assed guess.)
I cried, "Oh, Lady Midnight, I fear that you grow old, the stars eat your body and the wind makes you cold." "If we cry now," she said, "it will just be ignored."
voltsandamps wrote: Maybe in a few years they will give us enough information to make a S.W.A.G. ( scientific wild assed guess.) Well I have to say that the show has already created a ton of S.W.A.G. Look at the half a$$ed ideas I throw out there.
snootch2danootch wrote: voltsandamps wrote: Maybe in a few years they will give us enough information to make a S.W.A.G. ( scientific wild assed guess.) Well I have to say that the show has already created a ton of S.W.A.G. Look at the half a$$ed ideas I throw out there. ... apple doesn't falll far from the tree?????
I cried, "Oh, Lady Midnight, I fear that you grow old, the stars eat your body and the wind makes you cold." "If we cry now," she said, "it will just be ignored."
lockesladyness wrote: snootch2danootch wrote: voltsandamps wrote: Maybe in a few years they will give us enough information to make a S.W.A.G. ( scientific wild assed guess.) Well I have to say that the show has already created a ton of S.W.A.G. Look at the half a$$ed ideas I throw out there. ... apple doesn't falll far from the tree????? I didn't fall from any tree...I was PICKED
One thing that is apparent is that more than oe group of people have been here before and have executed studies/research or other types of programs or something on the island.
With Season 3 approaching I'm really hoping that we get some idea of what was up with the island and in years past. Finding out the use for the towers before would be cool also.
I cried, "Oh, Lady Midnight, I fear that you grow old, the stars eat your body and the wind makes you cold." "If we cry now," she said, "it will just be ignored."
I still don't think that the radio tower is in the hatch. It would have had to been rising up out of the hatch to actually be usefull, and that being said it would be pretty noticable if the tower were sticking up out of the hatch.
food drops..I think i was sent on the order of the others. It was sent to help keep all of them alive. Not just the main characters right now, but all of the survivors.
Look at the half a$$ed ideas I throw out there.
