ELF to shut down

Navy plans to scrap ELF
Transmissions to end at Clam Lake September 30
By RICK OLIVO and ANDREW BROMAN
The Daily Press
Last Updated: Monday, September 20th, 2004 09:48:11 AM

The U.S. Navy has announced that it will shut down the controversial Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) Communications System on September 30, ending operations at the Two ELF transmitter facilities located near Clam Lake and Michigan's Escanaba State Forest.

I remember going with my Dad to the Pentagon back in the 1970s to see cross-sections of sample cables for a predecessor of this system, Project Seafarer. At one point the plan was to build a giant grid across large parts of the U.P. and push 800 megawatts of power through it. Good to see it shut down.

UPDATE 5/06:

A 2001 piece on Zevs, a Russian ELF transmitter, from an Italian site focusing on Radio Waves below 22 kHz.