There's one of these around here too. All faded and ancient, looks like a military base. lol
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"WARNING: Beyond this point, radio frequency fields at this site may exceed FCC rules for human exposure. For your safety, obey all posted signs and site guidelines for working in radio frequency environments."
the original AT&T that owned these is defunct. SBC corp. bought AT&T in 2005 and changed their name to at&t (note lowercase) so SBC definitely doesn't care about their towers.
@vwestlife I really want to know what that big radome on the top of that tower was for, checked google, came up with nothing other than that tower was originally a TD-2 (big square horn) microwave site, but no mention of a radome. There has to be someone out there on youtube who knows.
There was one of these not far from where I live. Not too long ago they removed the horns. Now, it's just a big glorified cell phone tower. It's this big red and white heavy duty tower, with these tiny little cell antennas on the top.
so thats what those are for? i have always seen these just 20 miles outside of town or when traveling to another town from san antonio to corpus christi and would see like three of these things. i thought these thing were something to do with the government. i know the globe is a storm radar.
Thanks for taking the time to post these informational vid's for the small percentage of people that are interested. We have a few of these towers around were I live and they have been a landmark for many (40+) years.
@vwestlife Thanks for posting that vid! I worked in microwave (telecom) most of my Engineering career and it's neat to see one of these old towers. I would point out that microwave relays were not only in use well beyond the 80's there are still many in service both in more rugged areas of the U.S as well as around the world.
You need 'right of way' to string optical cable as well and that is not always an option. I found on/off keyed optics soo boring I went into mgmt ultimately ;-)
@monicatov as vwestlife said, your a bit too late on this one asshat. So have you "gifted" this tower yet to offset the death rays ? ha ha ha ha. EBL ?? Are you serious ? HA HA HA HA There is a place for you, it's called China. I suggest you move there.
@monicatov You sound like a sycophantic! You're stupid, along with your stupid cult of "Frankenstein master radio control!" EVERYONE Knows that you can't detect electromagnetic pulses OR Control neural-systems with radio waves! Unless if you had a High-Power receiver, and plus, THEY'RE FUCKING SATELLITES! NOT OMNIDIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS! SATELLITES PROJECT RADIO BEAMS AT A CERTAIN POINT!
FYI, You are subjected to MANY MANY radio waves MUCH more powerful than these, and we're not dead yet! Bastard!
Although some websites incorrectly list the Martinsville site as a concrete silo - the tower as pictured in the posted video is the original as erected by AT&T. There is also a permanent building housing transmission and support gear.
This tower originally had quite a few more microwave antennas (mostly horn type) than it does today. The site is no longer owned/operated by AT&T.
The article "34 Jumps to Chicago" from the Sept. 1949 Long Lines magazine (as found on long-lines . net) shows a photo of a 101-foot concrete silo being constructed at Martinsville, so unless they mislabeled the photo, I think that part is true, and the silo was replaced by the metal structure in later years. American Tower has many detailed photos of the current Martinsville tower on their web site.
Nothing in the brochure identifies any of the photographs as being the site in Martinsville. In fact nothing about any of those pictures remotely resembles Mt. Horeb.
At the time the Martinsville site was built there wasn't sufficient access to erect a concrete structure hence the tower platform that resides on the site to this day.
The Martinsville site was a relay between Newark, NJ and Buckingham, PA and provided backhaul to the relay at Green Pond. The Martinsville station operated at 4 GHZ and primarily utilized Western Electric KS-15676 horn reflector microwave antennas although several Western Electric KS-5759 Delay Lens Antennas would make appearances over the years.
The neatest one is Lyons, NE where there is a 2-story hardened shelter underground for the long lines AUTOVON system. Tower and horns are still there.
I'm suprised that this tower still has it's horn antennas on it....!
There happens to be an AT&T relay tower here where I live in Bismarck, ND, which had it's horns on it until about 2004-05, when they were removed. Like most others, it's been re-purposed as a cell phone tower, and the tower's building is still an AT&T facility, but now serving as a fiber-optic repeater facility.
Those towers gave each TV network its own special sound--NBC's had a "dry" quality to it, hard to describe, but when I was a kid, I could tell what network was on just by hearing the audio.
I know what you're talking about, I've seen and heard recordings of quite a few network television & radio broadcasts from the past from all 3 legacy networks, and they did have a sort of boxy, raspy quality to the audio, which maxed out at about 5 KHz freq. response back then, from what I've been told, from being relayed by AT&T...
I think I even remember watching TV when I was a wee, wee lad back in the early 80s, and remembering the audio even sounding like such at times even then....!
The networks did have a distinctive "sound" caused by varying bandwidth saving compression techniques used for the audio portion of the particular network. If it was caused by AT&T, all networks would have sounded the same because all the networks were carried by AT&T.
Wow! That thing is amazing looking. I believe that is a radome on the top? They just took the feed horns off the relay tower in Waco last year and I was sad to see them go.
wow I didn't know they had microwave telephone towers in the 40s! that seems like something they'd use now! actually cell phone towers are also microwave, I wouldn't want to live near one though!
The microwave towers were primarily built to carry TV networks, with radio and telephone also sharing the bandwidth. Many of the microwave towers -- including this one -- were originally built as concrete silos, due to the scarcity of steel during and after WWII.
Google "34 Jumps to Chicago" (with quotes) for a great article from 1949 about the network. Notice the lack of Interstate highways on the maps in the background -- they didn't exist until the '50s!
There's one of these around here too. All faded and ancient, looks like a military base. lol
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"WARNING: Beyond this point, radio frequency fields at this site may exceed FCC rules for human exposure. For your safety, obey all posted signs and site guidelines for working in radio frequency environments."
SeberHusky 1 week ago
the original AT&T that owned these is defunct. SBC corp. bought AT&T in 2005 and changed their name to at&t (note lowercase) so SBC definitely doesn't care about their towers.
thecooldude9999 1 week ago
The glove on top is probably a unclear blast detector to be used during the cold war.
colsonjohnson 4 weeks ago
Y cant that be in my backyard
kjsmith01993 1 month ago
I remember seeing those in Massachusetts too. used to be a big one in Paxton. The round ball on top looks like some sort of Doppler radar though.
barett1962 2 months ago
There's one by my house in new tripoli Pennsylvania there's a hiking trail going right past it
dacribgansta 2 months ago
beautiful!
gewglesux 3 months ago
@vwestlife I really want to know what that big radome on the top of that tower was for, checked google, came up with nothing other than that tower was originally a TD-2 (big square horn) microwave site, but no mention of a radome. There has to be someone out there on youtube who knows.
grassulo 4 months ago
Ball in the middle looks like an X-band missle sniffer or doppler radar.
beaman220 5 months ago
very kewl video-thanks for sharing!
carolina76guy 7 months ago
There was one of these not far from where I live. Not too long ago they removed the horns. Now, it's just a big glorified cell phone tower. It's this big red and white heavy duty tower, with these tiny little cell antennas on the top.
Mainsail76 10 months ago
That's too cool!
LIGHTRONIX 11 months ago
The globe houses a television station's Doppler radar.
TheTornadoChaser 1 year ago
so thats what those are for? i have always seen these just 20 miles outside of town or when traveling to another town from san antonio to corpus christi and would see like three of these things. i thought these thing were something to do with the government. i know the globe is a storm radar.
bradmann85 1 year ago
ah i love it!
hep2jive 1 year ago
Thanks for taking the time to post these informational vid's for the small percentage of people that are interested. We have a few of these towers around were I live and they have been a landmark for many (40+) years.
RustyRazor2010 1 year ago
i have no idea why but i am fascinated with those microwave towers.
sonick808 1 year ago
That globe on top looks like the domes used for Doppler weather radar. It's kinda low to the ground for that, though, isn't it?
popefelix 1 year ago
Thanks for the info, good video.
crazywarriorman 1 year ago
my grandpa worked at the netcong, nj at&t long lines site.
027954 1 year ago
@027954 My grandfather worked there too. Contact me
hendrixrlh1 1 year ago
Respond to this video... My grandfather worked there too. for most of the years it was open. Contact me.
hendrixrlh1 1 year ago
Theres a Tower In High Point NJ In Sussex Co Now Its Used By NJSP fro there radio system
Mbit100 1 year ago
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The problem with those microwave towers is that they do not just emit signals to cell phones
They can be harmful to people's brain due to the electrosmog they send but there is sthg worse still:
They do:
EBL - Electronic Brain Link
RNM - Remote Neural Monitoring
Frey Effect - Electronic hypnosis
People should not live near and should protect themselves from those
There is evil intent behind those
monicatov 2 years ago
@monicatov Your conspiracy theory is about 25 years out of date, as these large microwave horns haven't been used since the 1980s.
vwestlife 2 years ago 16
@vwestlife Thanks for posting that vid! I worked in microwave (telecom) most of my Engineering career and it's neat to see one of these old towers. I would point out that microwave relays were not only in use well beyond the 80's there are still many in service both in more rugged areas of the U.S as well as around the world.
You need 'right of way' to string optical cable as well and that is not always an option. I found on/off keyed optics soo boring I went into mgmt ultimately ;-)
Akileze 9 months ago
@monicatov as vwestlife said, your a bit too late on this one asshat. So have you "gifted" this tower yet to offset the death rays ? ha ha ha ha. EBL ?? Are you serious ? HA HA HA HA There is a place for you, it's called China. I suggest you move there.
matt9c1 1 year ago
@monicatov dont be a retard...
claypiesexygod 1 year ago
@monicatov You sound like a sycophantic! You're stupid, along with your stupid cult of "Frankenstein master radio control!" EVERYONE Knows that you can't detect electromagnetic pulses OR Control neural-systems with radio waves! Unless if you had a High-Power receiver, and plus, THEY'RE FUCKING SATELLITES! NOT OMNIDIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS! SATELLITES PROJECT RADIO BEAMS AT A CERTAIN POINT!
FYI, You are subjected to MANY MANY radio waves MUCH more powerful than these, and we're not dead yet! Bastard!
computerfreaq17 10 months ago
Although some websites incorrectly list the Martinsville site as a concrete silo - the tower as pictured in the posted video is the original as erected by AT&T. There is also a permanent building housing transmission and support gear.
This tower originally had quite a few more microwave antennas (mostly horn type) than it does today. The site is no longer owned/operated by AT&T.
MrRhse85 2 years ago
The article "34 Jumps to Chicago" from the Sept. 1949 Long Lines magazine (as found on long-lines . net) shows a photo of a 101-foot concrete silo being constructed at Martinsville, so unless they mislabeled the photo, I think that part is true, and the silo was replaced by the metal structure in later years. American Tower has many detailed photos of the current Martinsville tower on their web site.
vwestlife 2 years ago
Nothing in the brochure identifies any of the photographs as being the site in Martinsville. In fact nothing about any of those pictures remotely resembles Mt. Horeb.
At the time the Martinsville site was built there wasn't sufficient access to erect a concrete structure hence the tower platform that resides on the site to this day.
MrRhse85 2 years ago
The Martinsville site was a relay between Newark, NJ and Buckingham, PA and provided backhaul to the relay at Green Pond. The Martinsville station operated at 4 GHZ and primarily utilized Western Electric KS-15676 horn reflector microwave antennas although several Western Electric KS-5759 Delay Lens Antennas would make appearances over the years.
MrRhse85 2 years ago
i am shit scared of big things like that, sirens, antennas, etc f i got any closer I would feel soooo scared
dwarfer777 2 years ago
The neatest one is Lyons, NE where there is a 2-story hardened shelter underground for the long lines AUTOVON system. Tower and horns are still there.
zappatx 2 years ago
I always find old structures and machinery like this to be fascinating, I'm glad that you have shown us this!
ForgetfulCollector 2 years ago
I'm suprised that this tower still has it's horn antennas on it....!
There happens to be an AT&T relay tower here where I live in Bismarck, ND, which had it's horns on it until about 2004-05, when they were removed. Like most others, it's been re-purposed as a cell phone tower, and the tower's building is still an AT&T facility, but now serving as a fiber-optic repeater facility.
pvx 2 years ago
i wanna climb it
GordonFr0hman 2 years ago
All the AT&T towers in colorado except three are all stripped and abandoned
ymmit182005 2 years ago
Those towers gave each TV network its own special sound--NBC's had a "dry" quality to it, hard to describe, but when I was a kid, I could tell what network was on just by hearing the audio.
batterymaker 2 years ago
I know what you're talking about, I've seen and heard recordings of quite a few network television & radio broadcasts from the past from all 3 legacy networks, and they did have a sort of boxy, raspy quality to the audio, which maxed out at about 5 KHz freq. response back then, from what I've been told, from being relayed by AT&T...
I think I even remember watching TV when I was a wee, wee lad back in the early 80s, and remembering the audio even sounding like such at times even then....!
pvx 2 years ago
The networks did have a distinctive "sound" caused by varying bandwidth saving compression techniques used for the audio portion of the particular network. If it was caused by AT&T, all networks would have sounded the same because all the networks were carried by AT&T.
railgeek404 2 years ago
My God, dinosaurs DO exist! I haven't seen a microwave tower decked out like that in over twenty years.
batterymaker 2 years ago
Wow! That thing is amazing looking. I believe that is a radome on the top? They just took the feed horns off the relay tower in Waco last year and I was sad to see them go.
pdmillar 2 years ago
We have similar tower outside of town that was part of the NORAD radar defense system that protected us from nuclear air attack by the Russians.
bluenazz 2 years ago
you live next to some sweet stuff m8 keep them coming :)
NathanTheOne 2 years ago
LOL, looks like the Empire's next plan of attack. Cool stuff.
Noyjeetut 2 years ago 3
wow I didn't know they had microwave telephone towers in the 40s! that seems like something they'd use now! actually cell phone towers are also microwave, I wouldn't want to live near one though!
coolbluelights 2 years ago
y not u would get good signal ;)
NathanTheOne 2 years ago
The microwave towers were primarily built to carry TV networks, with radio and telephone also sharing the bandwidth. Many of the microwave towers -- including this one -- were originally built as concrete silos, due to the scarcity of steel during and after WWII.
Google "34 Jumps to Chicago" (with quotes) for a great article from 1949 about the network. Notice the lack of Interstate highways on the maps in the background -- they didn't exist until the '50s!
vwestlife 2 years ago