Setting Up A Seismic Station Mike Stickney Setting up a Seismic Station. . . A water-tight box houses the seismic amplifier and associated electronics. A cable carries the signal up to the a ridge-top radio transmitter. On the ridge-top above the caverns entance, a solar panel and battery power a small FM radio transmitter. The seismic signal from the Lewis and Clark Caverns seismograph is continously transmitted to the Earthquake Studies Office in Butte for recording.
Radio repeaters are necessary for most stations in the Montana seismograph network.