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Terrestrial microwave relay links are limited in distance to the visual horizon, a few tens of miles or kilometers depending on tower height. Tropospheric scatter ("troposcatter" or "scatter") was a technology developed in the 1950s to allow microwave communication links beyond the horizon, to a range of several hundred kilometers.
The tower appears to be in use for other purposes; the vertical antennas at the top and the round dark grey dish are not part of the original system. TD-2 was a microwave relay system developed by Bell Labs and used by AT&T to build a cross-country network of repeaters for telephone and television transmission.
A telecommunications tower with a variety of dish antennas for microwave relay links on Frazier Peak, Ventura County, California. The apertures of the dishes are covered by plastic sheets to keep out moisture. Microwave is a form of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths shorter than other radio waves but longer than infrared waves.
The specific uses of the tower today are classified. [5] It was rumored to be a government intelligence numbers station, although others argue that the tower's communications equipment is now obsolete. [4] Several microwave antennas have been removed from the tower, including those pointed to Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center.
English: A microwave relay tower on Granite Pass, Mojave National Preserve, California. This is part of the TD-2 AT&T Long Lines system, a microwave relay network created by AT&T in the 1950s to relay telephone calls and other data between cities in the USA. The four angular cone-shaped antennas are called horn-reflector antennas, invented by ...
An unguyed tower will fit into a much smaller plot. A steel lattice tower is cheaper to build than a concrete tower of equal height. Two small towers may be less intrusive, visually, than one big one, especially if they look identical. Towers look less ugly if they and the antennas mounted on them appear symmetrical.
A horn antenna or microwave horn is an antenna that consists of a flaring metal waveguide shaped like a horn to direct radio waves in a beam. Horns are widely used as antennas at UHF and microwave frequencies, above 300 MHz. [ 1 ]
The transmitter/studio link (or TSL) of a radio station or television station is a return link which sends telemetry data from the remotely located radio transmitter or television transmitter back to the studio for monitoring purposes.