Have you ever wondered why the Americans used the Kagnew Station in Asmara as the place to intercept radio messages around the world during the cold war era?

Physicians say that Asmara’s altitude in the highlands of Eritrea is a unique spot to pick up clear radio signals from thousand of miles across the world. The reception is supposed to be so good, that for example radio stations in Asmara claimed to have heard Finnish broadcasters on air occasionally. Specialists argue, that Asmara is benefiting from a natural phenomena, which has to do with the Earth Atmosphere. In the report of http://www.microkhan.com/2009/04/13/the-enigma-of-kagnew/ the explanation is  ”ducting”.

A physical expression, when rising radio signals in the earth atmosphere jump horizontally beneath the troposphere and return back to earth via “ducts” hundreds of miles away from their original source. This should explain the “magic” of the Kagnew station the report states. Read more about tropospheric “ducting”: http://weatherfaqs.org.uk/node/185.

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