wires

Old open wire telephone lines at Parks new South Wales, filmed in 2006 but now removed.
Not many of these left now, you would think Parks with it's history of technology for the part it played in the moon landings would have preserved this. I know that a microwave data link was set up between the
dish at Parks and Sydney but in any event a lot of telephone and telex traffic to do with one of mans
greatest achievements would have taken place over these wires It is well known that the first few minutes of the moon vision came from the honeysuckle creek tracking station near Canberra but that has been demolished for a while.
Each time i passed these lines and that was not to often once in every few years i would say i must take some photos before they are pulled or fall down but it was always to dark or no film etc.
In 2006 i did have a HD video cams and did spend some
time getting some of it to tape, went back this year 2009
for the 40th anniversary of the 1st manned landing on the moon and was going to get some hi res stills but they were all gone in the cause of street beautification.

Don't even try to watch in HD unless you have a very fast
connection and a good computer.

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Science & Technology

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• telegraph
• telephones
• openline
• insulators
• pole
• telegraphy
• parks
• dish
• telex
• apollo

[matkovicha]

Was this still in use when you filmed it?

[vk3ase]

I would think it had been unused for about 20 years a few hundred metres

that started nowhere and went to nowhere.

[vk3ase]

Sonny HDR FX1E

A lot of my vids are shot in HD but it just takes to long to post them on this hopeless broadband system that is basically designed for download only.

[captainnuzza]

Thanks for posting this video vk3ase , I too had forethought and photoed a few of those poles in 2001 and again in digital in 2005 , the pedestrian overpass enabled me to get quite close to one pole , from the other side of the overpass another pole that had crossover blocks of insulators , I believe crossovers were fitted at intervals to prevent induction pick-up from one line to the other.

There were still some of these just out of Melbourne on the railway line .

[uploadJ]

Oh, the things we take for granted, here one day and gone the next ... I remember seeing lots of these types of lines, as a kid, and even as near as 10 yrs back on a road trip through Oklahoma ... open-wire telegraph/telephone lines along the railroad tracks ... and in severe disrepair by now I am sure ...

Thanks for taking the time to video, to document this.

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[shortliner68]

Thanks for preserving this old wire system on video. I've always paid attention to the disappearing open wires her in the US around where I live. Between MD and VA, where I travel, there used to be lots of them years ago, but now everyone of them I spotted back then are now long gone - many of the clear and blue/green insulators now in antique stores as collector's items.

[vk3xbb]

Stu, nice video. Love the definition. What camera did you use?