You Got Your Ears On, Good Buddy? (Baldock) Traditional Cache
You Got Your Ears On, Good Buddy? (Baldock)
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This cache is a 35mm film pot placed about 1m above ground level. There is off-road parking a short way south-west of this cache.
With the ever increasing demand for radio based services, monitoring of the radio spectrum plays a vital role today in keeping the spectrum clean for authorised users, particularly the Emergency Services. It is also an essential and integral part of the spectrum management process, producing and evaluating data to aid spectrum managers in their day-to-day work. The radio monitoring station, located near Baldock in Hertfordshire is Ofcom's "listening ear" on the radio spectrum.
The monitoring station today has a much broader spectrum monitoring capability than when it began life in 1929. Its original role was to monitor the international HF radio circuits operated by the General Post Office (GPO), which followed on from historic first trans-Atlantic radio telephony services received at the site from New Jersey, USA.
Find out more about the vital role that Ofcom plays with tackling unauthorised transmissions, including Pirate Radio, in the UK's radio spectrum here: (visit link)
Many thanks to Trollman for agreeing to keep an eye on this cache.
Please feel free to suggest alternative names for this cache.
For example: This Cache Has No Bearing!
That's a play on the Direction Finding process that is one of the many methods used to find un-authorised radio transmitters.
See: GC1F5G5 to see how easy this is.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Vil srryvat gung guvf pnpur jvyy unir lbh frnepuvat sebz cvyyne gb cbfg.
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