. Bell telephone magazine . reaching some stations and animmediate return to the maintenancecenter rendered out of the , some of the comforts of home areprovided in a number of the most in-accessible relay stations to make pos-sible a stay of three or four days. Inone station, located on a mountaintop, there is an electric stove, a deep freeze, a bathroom, and plenty ofmagazines. Interestingly, the Mt. Diablo radiorelay station—the first auxiliary sta-tion south of San Francisco on theSan Francisco-Los Angeles route—isin the Mt. Diablo State Park, andwas designed to fit in with its
. Bell telephone magazine . reaching some stations and animmediate return to the maintenancecenter rendered out of the , some of the comforts of home areprovided in a number of the most in-accessible relay stations to make pos-sible a stay of three or four days. Inone station, located on a mountaintop, there is an electric stove, a deep freeze, a bathroom, and plenty ofmagazines. Interestingly, the Mt. Diablo radiorelay station—the first auxiliary sta-tion south of San Francisco on theSan Francisco-Los Angeles route—isin the Mt. Diablo State Park, andwas designed to fit in with its rusticsurroundings. The view out of thewindow affords a glorious picture ofthe California scene. The Expanding Outlook Our first attempt at maintainingmicrowave apparatus was early in1947 on the then experimental NewYork-Boston radio relay route. Herewe were taught some basic our experience with radio relaylengthens, and new circuit designsand newly designed tubes are intro-duced, we become acquainted with. Up hill in a sno-shu. Getting off an unmarked road and onto a drift with a treacherousoverhang^ like those shown behind the vehicle^ is a winter hazard 96 Bell Telephone Magazine their behavior and the precise meth- in the hot southland, or half way up a ods required to keep the network op- steel tower—a cabin in the sky— crating effectively. on the Midwest plains, the mainte- As each new leg and routing has nance forces are geared to do their been established on the expanding jobs quickly and precisely. Not all Bell System radio relay network, such work is done in picturesque maintenance problems and methodsare reviewed on the basis of thisincreasing experience, and plans aremade for handling the still larger net-work of the future. Whether the Bell System radio re-lay equipment is on a mountain top, spots, for more often than not thestations are ordinary places wherethere is just a room full of radioequipment at the end of a dusty here, as in
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