(erielack) Re: Speaking of Radios - More

[Gordon Davids <g.davids_@_verizon.net>]

Digging deeper into the memory banks:

The towers were built by Public Service Electric and Gas for use by Erie 
Lackawanna when PSE&G built the high voltage lines over the Greenwood 
Lake Branch.  They carried most of the EL communication circuits that 
had been on wires leaving Hoboken, including telephone, PBX, teletype, 
and I think the CTC code lines.  Now I don't think they carried any 
other telephone circuits.  They did hold antennae for the railroad radio 
base transceivers.

GAD

Gordon Davids wrote:

> The radio towers at North Newark and Hoboken Terminal were built by 
> AT&T Long Lines or New Jersey Bell in 1968 as a microwave link.  AT&T 
> leased the space from Erie Lackawanna, and as part of the lease EL was 
> given space on both towers for base station antennae.  Hoboken was a 
> remote base, meaning that it was wire connected to the dispatchers' 
> office.  I think that some other offices, including the Dugout and the 
> police, were hooked into the same transceiver system as the 
> dispatchers, and they could select the base station at either tower.  
> The North Newark transceiver might have used a microwave channel as 
> its connection to Hoboken, so technically it could have been called a 
> repeater, since it would have re-transmitted a radio signal on a 
> different frequency.
>
> I think the need for the microwave link for Telco was caused by the 
> construction of the high voltage power line over the Greenwood Lake 
> Branch at the same time, which interfered with some of the old 
> telephone circuits.  The power line was purposely built so that it 
> could serve as catenary support if the Greenwood Lake had ever been 
> electrified.
>



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