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(erielack) RE: Speaking of radios

The radio towers at North Newark and Hoboken Terminal were built by AT&T Long Lines or New Jersey Bell in 1968 as a microwave link.  AT&T leased the space from Erie Lackawanna, and as part of the lease EL was given space on both towers for base station antennae.  Hoboken was a remote base, meaning that it was wire connected to the dispatchers' office.  I think that some other offices, including the Dugout and the police, were hooked into the same transceiver system as the dispatchers, and they could select the base station at either tower.  The North Newark transceiver might have used a microwave channel as its connection to Hoboken, so technically it could have been called a repeater, since it would have re-transmitted a radio signal on a different frequency.

I think the need for the microwave link for Telco was caused by the construction of the high voltage power line over the Greenwood Lake Branch at the same time, which interfered with some of the old telephone circuits.  The power line was purposely built so that it could serve as catenary support if the Greenwood Lake had ever been electrified.

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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:42:58 -0400
From: "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_lucent.com>
Subject: RE: (erielack) RE: Speaking of radios


>> Todd:
>> 
>> "...the two I know off hand was the large radio tower in Hoboken and a
>> tower near the North Newark station on the Greenwood Lake Division."
>> 
>> Are you referring to the tall gray lattice frame tower along side the
>> tracks in North Newark?  If so, I always wondered what that was for,
>> since it had an odd shaped dish/disc on it.  Always thought 
>> it belonged
>> to NJ Bell. 
>  
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