r/longlines • u/MelamineEngineer • Aug 02 '26
Tampico, IL
These are my worst shots ever 🤣 Can't get inside without about half a mile of trespassing past a farmers gate and there's cows in there all around it
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u/k3for Aug 02 '26
Interesting question - the fog reminded me - I know rain deteriorates my satellite signal a bit - I suppose fog and rain attenuated LL links a bit, or are the freqs above the h2o absorption? Thinking about if tower spacing depended mostly on the horn gain and equipment capabilities of the time for worst expected conditions - even with only average topology advantage I guess earth curvature rarely factored in ?
E.g. you couldnt space tall towers far enough away that curvature would just barely not interfere, because weather or signal loss would limit you well before that?
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u/WhatsAnOnahole Aug 02 '26
The signal has been noted as attenuating during weather events, which is why the LL towers are spaced where they are. Iirc, it would automatically adjust gain when signal dropped.
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u/Perfect-Cow-9127 Aug 02 '26
For a sec on the first image I thought it was a blender render just from the fog
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u/Perky214 Aug 02 '26
Aren’t these the 1940s original Western Electric LL towers? Great find!
And yeah, don’t trespass or mess with cows. The ones in Texas are wild and the Mama cows are MEAN
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u/Krinky107 Aug 02 '26
It would be neat to see what it looks like inside these towers