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below are very kindly submitted by Professor Anthony C
Davis, who added: "I happened to be walking past the BT Tower in London with my camera and the clear blue sky persuaded me to take some photos!" The Tower is not used for any major television or radio transmission, save for small DAB (digital radio) relays for Digital One and Switch London covering the central London area. The tower was built by the GPO (General Post Office) between 1961 and 1965 as a major radio and telephony link station. Initially it was known as The Post Office Tower. There is a revolving restaurant near the top of the tower which is now closed to the public due to the threat of a terrorist bombing in 1971. The restaurant is now used only by BT Employees. The tower is 189 meters tall and is now known as The BT Tower since the GPO was split up in the 1980's and the telecommunications part of the organisation privatised to form British Telecom. The Tower is at the hub of BT's telecommunications network and is a major video link for terrestrial broadcast television services. The upper galleries are populated mainly with enclosed microwave dish aerials - the squat cylinders of various sizes that are used for point to point microwave communication links around the UK. There are also some open 'dish' aerials and several of rather old fashioned 'Horn Antennas' (the ones with the purple mouth covering - too big to remove now) that could be seen at many BT towers some years ago, but which seem to have been mostly replaced with the squat cylinders that appear to make up the vast majority of aerials seen here: |
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Thanks to Professor Anthony C
Davies for these
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