vga256 on Nostr: my fantasy as a 9-year-old becomes real: buying that 1.8m/6-foot microwave long ...

my fantasy as a 9-year-old becomes real: buying that 1.8m/6-foot microwave long distance transmission repeater i've been dreaming about for 30+ years

these massive point-to-point antennas sat at the top of gigantic towers dotted all over the northwest territories where i grew up. they beamed all kinds of signals around the north, where permafrost made buried cable nigh impossible. when i worked at an arctic isp in the 90s, we used them to beam our dial-up analog telephone internet access between communities and our central office.

there are less of these in the north now that there is fibre and satellite, but i still occasionally see them at the tops of towers in the most remote areas.

#radio #canada