Civic Transmission Tower 01/95

Date:         Sat, 14 Jan 1995 13:04:37 CST
Sender:       DESIGN-L "Basic and applied design" (Art and Architecture)
From:         carr0023@gold.tc.umn.edu
Subject:      Civic Transmission Tower

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"_Height_: 300 feet.
  _Location_: A high plateau off exit 46.
  _Owner_: AT&T.
  _Specifications_: Designed by Rose, Chuckoff, and Rose, Westchester, New
   York and built in 1981. It is one of three standing types the utility
   employs, and serves as a midpoint station for telephone transmissions to
   eastern Long Island. The highly directional "horn" antennae transmit and
   receive signals carrying hundreds of phone messages simultaneously from
   other line-of-sight towers. These are connected to central relay and
   processing stations that convert wire borne telephone signals into
   electromagnetic transmissions. The square plan of the tower allows
   guides to be run through its center, thus permitting positioning devices
   to precisely orient the horn antennae towards its corresponding trans-
   mitting antennae. _Transmitters_: AT&T
   Drawn and researched by Bruce Bowman.
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 TRANSMISSION TOWERS on the Long Island Expressway      Michele Bertomen
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