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Title: Alien equipment bt exchange
Post by: freeflow on July 04, 2019, 11:03:40 AM

Hi
A question out of interest, do some rural bt exchanges got cellular mobile phone aerials installed and what is a
circular 1ft thick about 2ft diameters slightly concave "dish like a satellite dish" outside a bt exchange used for.
The title is just for a laugh as I do not know what this dish is.  ;D

Title: Re: Alien equipment bt exchange
Post by: licquorice on July 04, 2019, 11:10:09 AM

Its an aerial for a line of sight microwave link.

Title: Re: Alien equipment bt exchange
Post by: freeflow on July 04, 2019, 11:22:09 AM

Thanks and do you know if some rural bt exchanges got cellular mobile phone aerials installed?

Title: Re: Alien equipment bt exchange
Post by: fat jez on July 15, 2019, 09:30:56 PM

That’s a historical thing back to when BT owned Cellnet (now O2). Exchanges are a good location for mobile phone masts, since the backhaul capability is in the building underneath.