<html><body><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div>I just looked at the Reddit link and noted the bizarre and uneducated comments posted about a historic but vital AT&T system that gave us TV and long distance telephone communication for many year starting in the late forties through the 90's when replaced by fiber optic cable.  So much for history.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Merle W7YOZ, </div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Son of a 43 year AT&T long lines employee whose expertise got me started in ham radio 65 years ago<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"admin" <admin@off732.com><br><b>To: </b>"Puget Sound Data Ring" <psdr@hamwan.org>, "Paul Barwick" <paulbarwick@gmail.com><br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, May 5, 2019 6:40:44 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [HamWAN PSDR] Map of AT&T Wash. Microwave Network - 1976<br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><p>There was a posting on Reddit awhile about these AT&T Long
      Lines network.</p>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/5/2019 8:18 AM, Paul Barwick
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        <div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 8:16 AM
          Randy Neals <<a href="mailto:randy@neals.ca" target="_blank">randy@neals.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
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            <div dir="auto">Solid lines are microwave.</div>
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          <div dir="auto">Beaded lines are coaxial cable</div>
          <div dir="auto">Dashed lines are copper. Usually screened
            pairs.</div>
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          <div dir="auto">Railways became routes for fiber in the
            competitive telco boom. Usually cable was placed along roads
            and occasionally along private right of way.</div>
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              <div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sun, May 5, 2019 at
                7:17 AM Paul Barwick <<a href="mailto:paulbarwick@gmail.com" target="_blank">paulbarwick@gmail.com</a>>
                wrote:<br>
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                <div dir="ltr">I  am guessing that the solid lines with
                  the directional markings are microwave paths  I wonder
                  if the dashed lines are following railroad right of
                  ways?  I know that fiber optic cables run along the RR
                  right of way now.  I am not sure if they used to do
                  the same thing with copper.  Now that I think about
                  it, there always used to be overhead cables or wires
                  along the RR right of way.  I had always assumed those
                  were for RR communications.  Perhaps I was wrong and
                  they belonged to someone else who leased the space.</div>
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                  <div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sun, May 5, 2019
                    at 5:59 AM Darcy Buskermolen <<a href="mailto:darcyb@gmail.com" target="_blank">darcyb@gmail.com</a>>
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                    <div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1S7cXpv02lAd4okrYqzDKna7Ekvo&ll=45.268463719529315%2C-122.1243670978431&z=7" target="_blank">https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1S7cXpv02lAd4okrYqzDKna7Ekvo&ll=45.268463719529315%2C-122.1243670978431&z=7</a>  <br>
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                      <div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sun, May 5,
                        2019 at 5:48 AM Skyler F <<a href="mailto:electricity440@gmail.com" target="_blank">electricity440@gmail.com</a>>
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                          <div dir="auto">Where did you get that map?
                            Could I find one of the whole US?</div>
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                            <div dir="ltr">On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 2:45
                              AM Randy Neals <<a href="mailto:randy@neals.ca" target="_blank">randy@neals.ca</a>>
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                              <div dir="ltr">Many of these sites may
                                sound familiar.<br>
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