Something strange in my backyard

[SomeJackleg]

Georgia pacific owns the land.
I wondered what else these devices might be used for.

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Georgia Pacific, is owned by Koch Industries they bought it in 2005. as far as i recall Koch Industries is not a very nefarious company. they do get involved in a lot of politicking and their father was one of the founders of the John Birch Society.
and one of the brothers is one of the founders of the Cato Institute.

of course being the second largest private owned companies in the U.S. they probably got their hands in all kinds of stuff not known to the public.

i do know here in the panhandle that some of the paper product and lumber companies will lease some of their land to other companies maybe that's what they are doing.

from reading up on VOR's the FAA are one of the operators of them and i take own the majority of them and rthere are only abut 100 they don't own. their also going to shut down most of them and have already started doing so for the one they own, others are going to be left as back ups in case the new systems gps go down.

In late 2011, the FAA published its first notice for public comment related to its proposal to draw down the VOR network within the Continental U.S. (CONUS) to a MON. After the normal process of comment evaluation, proposals and notices was complete, a plan for transitioning to NextGen navigation systems was published by the FAA in July 2016. It included a plan for transitioning to PBN and for establishing a VOR MON. Phase I of that plan was to run from Fiscal Year (FY) 2016-2020. Before Phase I began, the FAA owned 957 VORs. Another 100 non-federal VORs were also in operation around the U.S. Some VORs were decommissioned during Phase I, but the primary goal during that time was to remove, replace or amend affected Instrument Flight Procedures (IFP), which would allow for more widespread VOR decommissioning during Phase II. By the time you read this, Phase II will have already begun and is currently scheduled to run through 2030. During Phase II, the federal VOR count will fall to 589, but without a significant loss of capability for the average user (see Figures 1 and 2).


understanding VOR in the Era of GPS

their basicly just radio broadcast that tells a pilot whose asking where they hell am i where he is. can't really think of anything else they could be used for. unless their is some sort of hidden signal being broadcast, or some body might spoof a broadcast andtry to misdirect aircraft. but with the new systems i doubt that would affect anything.

maybe 727Sky could help with a better understand and have ideas abut whatelse they could be used for.