[GreenKeys] For all the telco and ex-telco guys

[Pete Lancashire]

In Portland Oregon they are downtown on top of what was the AT&T Long Lines
building. They are still there, my guess to much of a hassle to take down.
The last time I was in the building it was pretty much empty.

http://long-lines.net/places-routes/PortlandOR/index.html



On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <w8au at sssnet.com>
> To: "Jim Haynes" <jhhaynes at earthlink.net>; <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2014 11:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] For all the telco and ex-telco guys
>
>
>  At 03:12 PM 11/9/2014, Jim Haynes wrote:
>>
>>  http://www.davevdw.net/12-Trip/MorningLight.htm
>>>
>>> scroll down to what looks like a set of microwave horns on the
>>> chimney of a house!
>>>
>>
>> Looks like TG-2 microwave horns, a standard item on these
>> brick towers
>>
>> w8au
>>
>    I wonder what the tall tower in the background is. It looks like either
> an AM station or perhaps the support for a TV or FM antenna. Hard to tell
> from the photos.
>    I don't know how long the microwave network stayed alive but wonder if
> satellites would  not have supplanted much of it long before optical fiber.
> For that matter, I wonder how long long lines kept copper in service.  My
> impression is that the copper stayed around until replaced by fiber.
>
>
> --
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles
> WB6KBL
> dickburk at ix.netcom.com
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