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posted by [personal profile] fanf at 12:58am on 04/03/2013
I think the tower looks a bit sad without its microwave antennas, since they were what it was built for. It's all fibre optic now...

Reading about the microwave network, I find out that the tower we used to live very close to (Charwelton, Northants - we lived in Priors Marston) was rarer than I thought - the microwave network had only a few dozen towers. It was also part of the Cold War nuclear-resistant comms network. I expect the Russians were fully aware of this and we would have been turned to glass pretty promptly if Stanislav Petrov had been less careful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Telecom_microwave_network
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