anyone recall a govt tropo hop from no. va to so. md in 50's-60's? c.batson...
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albertjlafrance@...
Apr 3, 2001 12:54 am
I just wanted to make sure that everyone who's interested has been able to access the document. If you experienced problems with the "direct" URL I first...
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albertjlafrance@...
Apr 3, 2001 3:57 am
John, Welcome to the list, and thanks for sharing those pictures. I'm very interested in the former AT&T radio and cable networks, and enjoy seeing what the...
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Robert
coldski@...
Apr 3, 2001 12:01 pm
Thanks for your attempts to help me determine the facility I wrote about earlier (two large dishes in MD, on Potomac River, south of Indian Head, across and...
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ozob99@...
Apr 3, 2001 4:43 pm
From the 60's til the 80's, mabe even now....there was a tall(750+) tower with dishes pointing east!!!....on Bodie Island near the lighthouse(near Oregon...
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albertjlafrance@...
Apr 4, 2001 2:14 am
That's really interesting! Unfortunately, I don't have any idea what the installations might have been. My family vacationed on the Outer Banks in the 1960s,...
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albertjlafrance@...
Apr 4, 2001 2:53 am
Speaking of the WTC, I just came across this rather intriguing item: http://macopinion.com/columns/engine/00/08/02/ Albert...
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A. H. Grobmeier
algrobmeier@...
Apr 4, 2001 2:57 am
I am not familiar with the outerbanks area of NC, but can provide the following information on NECPA shore radio stations which used tropo. Naval Radio Station...
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Daryl R. Gibson
drgibson@...
Apr 4, 2001 4:08 am
Some of you may remember my note about the long lines books that I bought on eBay, and then scanned in some photos for the web ...
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Clay Gibbs
sierra391@...
Apr 4, 2001 5:24 am
04 APR 01 Today I went and checked out the Pave Paws radar located at Robins AFB, GA. Very impressive site !! FAS lists the facility in caretaker status. I...
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ozob99@...
Apr 4, 2001 1:55 pm
... what the ... climbed the ... anything about ... Bodie ... recently. ... Center may ... find. ... (750+) ... like ... then i ... some ... the tower(might...
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ozob99@...
Apr 4, 2001 2:05 pm
... i have'nt been to all the posts yet so this may be redundent ....another WTC page...lots of surprises in that facility. ...
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ozob99@...
Apr 4, 2001 2:11 pm
... the ... tropo. ... NAVRADSTA ... established ... radio ... the ... remains. ... operating ... ok thanks..i knew of those locations,mabe this was not part...
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albertjlafrance@...
Apr 5, 2001 2:31 am
I've posted a Bell System document describing the KS-15676 horn-reflector antenna, the type most commonly used in the Long Lines microwave network. This Bell...
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albertjlafrance@...
Apr 5, 2001 1:02 pm
The following might be of interest to members of this group. Albert ... relative ... lives ... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/recediscussioninfo I have started...
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ozob99@...
Apr 5, 2001 4:10 pm
... switches. One ... Ft. ... described ... the ... contract ... the ... station ... switch ... nets I ... System, ... There was an Interagency Communications...
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ozob99@...
Apr 5, 2001 4:14 pm
... and data ... were ... and both ... links in areas ... diplomatic ... protected by ... of ... and ... specific ... management ... miles ... was ... coax ......
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ozob99@...
Apr 5, 2001 4:29 pm
... L-CXR main ... Richmond #2 is on turner rd just off hull st rd(us360), 2 bldg's..one is L4(now fiber)& 4ess; the other is CSC(customer service center for ...
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ozob99@...
Apr 5, 2001 5:11 pm
Anyone have a pic or details on the AT&T Buckingham Va. tropo repeater?..i believe it was on the Charlottesville#2-Chatham hop.I'm told its barely visible off...
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albertjlafrance@...
Apr 5, 2001 5:16 pm
I've been there - in fact I have some pictures of the thing I've been planning to post. Do you have any information about its purpose? Albert In a message...
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ozob99@...
Apr 5, 2001 5:23 pm
... been ... hop.I'm ... I understand it was just a repeater,no demod down to interconnect,between Charlottesville#2 & Chatham....there was an article in the...
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albertjlafrance@...
Apr 5, 2001 9:33 pm
I agree that Buckingham was probably just a repeater; I saw no evidence of terrestrial microwave or other broadband links at the site - just a small aerial...
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ozob99@...
Apr 6, 2001 2:20 am
... evidence of ... small ... for White ... the ... there's an ... Electronics ... hardened tropo ... con ... Radio Engineering Labs(REL),L.I.C.,NY made most...
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ozob99@...
Apr 6, 2001 2:33 am
Anyone recall the tactical name for this center?..i'm thinking "Wedding Bells"..also looking for the site, gap filler or heavy radar, that had the height...
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albertjlafrance@...
Apr 6, 2001 4:00 am
This is probably nothing unusual, but it did make me a little curious because of the town's small size and its location: A 1988 AT&T Long Lines map shows a...
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hooligan@...
Apr 6, 2001 9:06 am
In a message dated 4/5/2001 10:43:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... I used to hear it on NORAD HF & UHF SATCOM circuits in the early/mid-1980s ID'ing as...
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Mark Foster
mfoster@...
Apr 6, 2001 11:15 am
My book shows it as a N carrier repeater station. N carrier cable routes were pretty common....
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mikemeredith2@...
Apr 6, 2001 2:31 pm
... AFS? ... www.radomes.org lists 3 callsigns for Fort Lee: Wedding Bells, Fertile, and Sardine (and Jitney for Cape Charles). And I believe you are correct...
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ozob99@...
Apr 6, 2001 7:19 pm
... OK thanks...A.H. Grobmeier just clued me in on that site,lots of good stuff there...as i was telling him,P50 had an internal fire that almost destroyed the...
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ozob99@...
Apr 8, 2001 9:13 pm
Anyone recall what the acronym ACCACA (or could have been ACACCA) stood for?..It was Army comm related 1950's/60's....often associated with ACAN(Army Command...
