Former AT&T Microwave Relay Towers Delran NJ
A pair of towers in Delran NJ that were part of the AT&T microwave relay network. The taller tower relayed television between Philadelphia and New York, where it branched off the transcontinental relay, the shorter tower relayed telephone between Trenton and Cedar Brook. The towers on the AT&T microwave network were provided by Western Electric, as was the radio equipment. The microwave horn reflector antennas were on the corners of the platforms, probably removed when AT&T sold the towers after microwave fell out of use in the 1980s. As with most of these Cold War era relics, they have been repurposed for a more modern form of communication - cellular.
AT&T's microwave relay was not the first when it went into operation in 1950, Western Union operated the first microwave system beginning in 1948. A tower from that network is in nearby Mt. Laurel...
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Former AT&T Microwave Relay Towers Delran NJ
A pair of towers in Delran NJ that were part of the AT&T microwave relay network. The taller tower relayed television between Philadelphia and New York, where it branched off the transcontinental relay, the shorter tower relayed telephone between Trenton and Cedar Brook. The towers on the AT&T microwave network were provided by Western Electric, as was the radio equipment. The microwave horn reflector antennas were on the corners of the platforms, probably removed when AT&T sold the towers after microwave fell out of use in the 1980s. As with most of these Cold War era relics, they have been repurposed for a more modern form of communication - cellular.
AT&T's microwave relay was not the first when it went into operation in 1950, Western Union operated the first microwave system beginning in 1948. A tower from that network is in nearby Mt. Laurel...
www.flickr.com/photos/42444189@N04/30760375352/in/photoli...