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FAA “BRIJJ” Station, 2024
All the the pixels, for authorized personnel only, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54128020212
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Captured with the Rodenstock 40mm/4.0 HR-Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50), Cambo 1250 Camera.
This humble, somewhat dilapidated shelter, a few miles south of SFO airport, once housed a medium wave aviation beacon (NDB). It currently hosts a variety of aviation surveillance sensors. Its location is also waypoint on the way to SFO runway 28R.
This kind of infrastructure, integral to modern aviation safety, is almost invisible if you don’t know where to look for it.
@mattblaze@federate.social I’m loving these photos of radio stations like this. As a radio geek and an avid photographer, this stuff is right up my alley. :-)
Infrastructure is quietly heroic, and deserves to be seen that way.
i fkn lurv infra. really. it’s fascinating. it is culture, distilled to its essence.
@mattblaze@federate.social Engineering (including infrastructure) is quietly heroic.
Recommended viewing:
City of Ember (2008)-a story where the heroes are anonymous long-dead engineers
“Everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”
–Kurt Vonnegut
@mattblaze@federate.social It amuses me how many aviation waypoints have a mnemonic pronunciation that invokes something about its surroundings. This one I’m guessing refers to the San Mateo bridge?
@mattblaze@federate.social I passed by that station a few months prior, now I know what it actually is! Your picture is great as always. Here’s mine: https://flic.kr/p/2q7E46q
@mattblaze@federate.social Actually, there are also meteorological sensors on that dock. I see an ultrasonic wind sensor and an optical sensor, presumably to measure visibility.
@schamschula@mastodon.social Isn’t that what I said?
