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Identifier: belltelephonevol3132mag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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an area which iseager to see live programs fromafar. News stories about these mat-ters are full of the excitement andvalue of the occasion. But it is clearthat a radio relay station set up tohandle a single football game, or apolitical speech—hence one which in- cludes apparatus lined up under pres-sure and not equipped with as com-plete testing facilities as are ordinar-ily available at a regular point on thenetwork—offers special maintenanceproblems. Nonetheless, when Gen-eral Eisenhower launched his cam-paign by speaking from Abilene, theequipment was ready for him. Andeven if the trio of stations set uptemporarily (pending a permanent in-stallation) to speed network servicefrom Oklahoma City to Tulsa wereincomplete in some details, the equip-ment performed without fault. Again, there are what might betermed normal maintenance difficul-ties. A score or more of radio relaystations, such as the very tall struc-ture at Valparaiso, Indiana, house I 92 Bell Telephone Magazine SUMMER
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Cabin in the sky: on the route betweenOmaha and Denver several of these towerssupport transmitting and receiving equip-ment about 100feet above ground radio equipment and regular powerplant half way up the tower. In thecase cited, all apparatus must behauled up by block and tackle, andthe men occupied with maintenancemust climb 100 feet by an inside stair-way to the scene of their work. And there are, of course, the reallyodd problems. The radio relay sta-tion on Suwanee Mountain, just northof Atlanta, for example, has intrudedon the home of a flock of buzzards.The buzzards, it develops, are nothappy with this invasion of scienceinto their midst—but they are makingthe best of things by perching on thetop of whatever radio antenna hornsarc available. Almost as many ef-forts to dislodge buzzards have beenundertaken as were devoted someyears ago to the problem of crowssitting on telephone wires. Physical efforts to dislodge them have left agood deal to be desired in effective-ness, and

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