Dexter, Thanks very much for posting that - I've added links to your page from my Bell Labs Record index and Technology and Equipment pages. Albert ... From:...
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Albert LaFrance
albert_lafrance
Jan 1, 2004 11:13 pm
I've just uploaded the 304 Conference Switching System article: http://long-lines.net/tech-equip/switching/BLR0165/008.html It includes a photo of the...
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Albert LaFrance
albert_lafrance
Jan 2, 2004 3:17 am
The NORAD item is now online at: http://coldwardc.homestead.com/files/CMC/BLR1065/387.html Your question about the stations serving NORAD is a good one. From...
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scoove
Jan 2, 2004 6:44 am
Hello all - Thought I'd pass along a warning to all owners of former AT&T Longlines towers. We discovered a theft yesterday of about 70% of one of our towers...
6793
fantumone
Jan 2, 2004 6:44 am
Hi all, I'm new here. I grew up in Philipsburg and have spent many a night necking in that fire tower ( a long time ago). Philipsburg hasa defunct airport...
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Thomas E. Ketchum
ffighter_94
Jan 2, 2004 6:44 am
In the state i work in, it is a HUGE screwup to send one out, as the state agency in control of the system does not like them due to the system load it...
6795
mf9992002
Jan 2, 2004 6:44 am
I found a building a few miles south N 35.55468 W 120.71255. My GPS was set to WGS 72 when I stored the location. The building looks like it's 1960's vintage...
6796
B
confidenteyes
Jan 2, 2004 6:44 am
Hello all, first post. I'm not new to radio but I am fairly new to microwave. I have access to a site with the very large Gabriel style antennas still in...
6797
greenfog13
Jan 2, 2004 6:44 am
I worked in this facility not to long ago. I installed a very complex FM-200 fire suppression system for its data processing room. Very large facility....
6798
umo1845
Jan 2, 2004 6:44 am
... Street. ... about ... from the ... go ... The ... to have ... I'll try to get a couple of photos & GPS Coord. of this one and see if I can locate any...
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Pj
packy41
Jan 2, 2004 6:50 am
Anyone know what Altoona talked to? I tried to visually see where the other station was, but I can't seem to locate it. Altoona sits in a deep valley so its...
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Pj
packy41
Jan 2, 2004 6:54 am
Must be some old heads in the IT department. You just KNOW that sending out a 2k text message out on ISDN and T1 lines create such a huge load on...
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Mike Jacobs
deusxmach
Jan 2, 2004 7:18 am
All the documents I have seen have primarily identified Lamar and Hugo as being the main junction stations feeding into CMC. Based on the topography of the...
6802
Blake Bowers
bbowers311
Jan 2, 2004 2:07 pm
TN used to get very irate over any AM message, sent statewide, for anything other than VERY pressing information. Even severe weather was a no-no. TCIC was...
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blitz
blitz@...
Jan 2, 2004 4:03 pm
What diameter are the dishes? A 10-12' dish will produce from 38-42db gain. Your problem would be to get a suitable connection from your LAN equipment to the...
6804
s92187
Jan 2, 2004 4:16 pm
... access ... Hi Bill: These antennas will deliver about 43 dB of gain at that frequency, the antenna itself will operate in any of the microwave bands, the ...
6805
briansindustrial
briansindust...
Jan 2, 2004 6:01 pm
Hi, Well we didn't have that problem exactly .. all of our copper was already gone. But, we have had another problem with too many people who have keys to...
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Mike Jacobs
deusxmach
Jan 2, 2004 11:49 pm
I might also have some concern about how well the polarization network that transitions from the rectangular to circular waveguide will handle the NII band,...
6807
Jay Panozzo
towern2
Jan 3, 2004 1:58 pm
Ahhh yes, license free 5.8 GHz, the Yugo band of microwave..... I was wondering if a simple waveguide to N adapter at the feed would work? (if its a parabolic)...
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blitz
blitz@...
Jan 3, 2004 3:59 pm
There are adaptors that transform type N's to waveguide.....used them in microwave, try microflect if theyre still around.....
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Albert LaFrance
albert_lafrance
Jan 3, 2004 4:56 pm
Thanks to the Western Union Alumni web site ( http://www.westernunionalumni.com/index.shtml ), I just learned that the complete set of the Western Union...
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Jay Panozzo
towern2
Jan 3, 2004 7:24 pm
i was just going to post a message about Western Union, I was wondering if there was anything on them! I have a lot of time put into their network and am glade...
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rwfisheriv
Jan 4, 2004 5:33 am
I noticed a MW relay tower just west of I-81 a few miles north of Staunton, VA (sorry, no GPS coordinates). It had 2 pairs of horns with a rough E/W ...
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pwood78
Jan 4, 2004 8:53 pm
... Hello, From your description it sounds like you saw AT&T's Ft. Defiance site. AT&T operated the site under call sign KZS66 which had links to Crozet...
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Albert LaFrance
albert_lafrance
Jan 5, 2004 2:19 am
Yes, I agree it's Ft. Defiance, as shown on the 1970 Virginia route map: http://long-lines.net/places-routes/maps/VA1970.html The map also shows a cable route...
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Albert LaFrance
albert_lafrance
Jan 5, 2004 3:00 am
The Nov. 1947 Bell Laboratories Record contains an article titled "A Preview of Radio Relaying", describing the experimental microwave link between the Labs...
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Walter
def_con_five
Jan 5, 2004 5:18 pm
Hi Mr.Albert Lafrance, if you get this message, please email me with your current email, i tried emailing you @att.net, the address on your website, but I dont...
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Albert LaFrance
albert_lafrance
Jan 6, 2004 3:03 am
Thanks! I've added that link to a new SOSUS section on my Cold War site. Albert ... From: "ozob99" <ozob99@...> To: <coldwarcomms@yahoogroups.com> Sent:...
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jhaynesatalumni
Jan 7, 2004 10:21 pm
I just learned of this group from a posting on Usenet group comp.dcom.telecom. I have some catching up to do reading the messages... By way of introduction,...
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long-lines@...
cpe122
Jan 8, 2004 3:41 am
I tried to find that spot on http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ and landed in 'hill country'; do you think you could find it and post the URL? TIA....
