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i went for a hike today and saw this tower. i guessed what it was for, and it turns out i was right! what do you think it is?
9 June at 0:48 | Open on mastodon.social
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Eric Douglas
Jonathan Hendry
Coprolite9000

@tubetime
AT&T Long Lines relay station?

(I remember reading about the system a number of years ago, and seeing a small photo, thought 'that looks like the tower right near me' in Seattle. It *was* the tower right near me. Sadly, said tower has since lost its old Long Lines microwave stuff...)

hackaday.com/2017/07/10/horns-

9 June at 0:56 | Open on mastodon.me.uk
ian spence :yikes:

@tubetime long lines antenna, right? I remember seeing them at a few former Bell sites around.

9 June at 0:56 | Open on mastodon.social
Phil M0OFX
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@tubetime Microwave comms, based on the horns, but this is different than any of the AT&T Long Lines towers I’ve ever seen.

9 June at 1:00 | Open on beige.party
kaybeeque

@tubetime microwave relay station used for radio and television broadcast. Television eventually migrated to satellite and telephone to fibre optic.

I got to talk to the crew dismantling one at one time. In this case the entire tower was dismantled but apparently a lot of them got repurposed as cell phone sites or other uses including bird nesting sites!

9 June at 1:01 | Open on fosstodon.org
Andrew Zonenberg

@tubetime AT&T long lines? The horns look similar.

9 June at 1:03 | Open on ioc.exchange
Darryl Ramm
VWestlife

@tubetime The structure looks quite elaborate. Is that a mechanism for lowering the microwave horns to ground level for servicing?

9 June at 1:11 | Open on mastodon.social
Frottier

@tubetime clearly an abandoned listening outpost of the galactic empire

I can hear the beeping noises when I look closely

9 June at 1:14 | Open on mastodon.social
rawe
Nick 🦇🕸️🖤🖖

@tubetime I wish I had a bucket of money back when AT&T put many of their Long Lines sites up for sale...late 1999 or early 2000 I think?

9 June at 1:14 | Open on mastodon.online
Ben A L Jemmett

@tubetime Is it a fully-automated nerd trap? Watch out for any pits or tripwires on the approach!

9 June at 1:33 | Open on mastodon.online
Gregory L. Charvat
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@tubetime It's one of the facilities of the Imperial Center of Military Research, as pictured in Rogue One.

9 June at 6:11 | Open on mastodon.social
F4GRX Sébastien
neverbeaten

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I see:
Many smaller parabolic antennae for high frequency/high bandwidth
Several approx 2m frequency omni antennae (repeaters?)
And a few large directional microwave antennae
Also a large liquid storage tank (water? Fuel for a generator?
Overall, it seems to be a large, multipurpose wireless relay/repeater station.

The structure is bizarrely overly-complex compared to the others I've seen. All this is typically on one tower. Is it in an earthquake prone area?

@tubetime
I see:
Many smaller parabolic antennae for high frequency/high bandwidth
Several approx 2m frequency omni antennae (repeaters?)
And a few large directional microwave antennae
Also a large liquid storage tank (water? Fuel for a generator?
Overall, it seems to be a large, multipurpose wireless relay/repeater station.

9 June at 12:43 | Open on mas.to
Tony Finch

@tubetime i grew up not far from charwelton, one of BT’s microwave backbone towers

dgsys.co.uk/btmicrowave/sites/

rolling fields with tree-lined hedgerows, looking uphill to a very tall cylindrical concrete tower sprouting huge microwave horns near its top; next to it is a slightly shorter steel lattice tower supporting a few more antennae
9 June at 18:29 | Open on mendeddrum.org
ospalh

*falls into a rabbit hole*
Did you know there was a troposcatter radio link between West Germany and West Berlin?

9 June at 19:30 | Open on chaos.social
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