May is the traditional satellite dish breeding season in Berkshire. As seen on the photo, the young ones are out of their underground dens, cautiously investigate the surrounding environment
@Prof_Trixie @kravietz When it's pandemic and you are supposed to work from home but you have a job at the NSA.
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this is exactly what "BBC" Crowsley park is used for, and has been since end of WW II !
By the way, back in 90's I was so much impressed by Declan McCullagh reporting on Echelon that I registered echelon.pl domain for my personal blog and never imagined I'd be actually walking by its listening post while enjoying a pint of ale 😁
next time you are in Caversham, have a look at the Telephone Exchange on Church Street, and consider why it is so large and advanced looking (especially the bit round the back) for a relatively small suburb (they got the digital/electronic upgrades 6/7 years before Reading Central did, went to
6 digits before the main town, and many 0118 948 **** numbers and at one point whole blocks of 0118 946 **** numbers were used by the BBC...
I'm driving there almost every day on work weeks taking my son to UTC, and last week he actually about... the Telephone Exchange as we usually spend significant amount of time in traffic there. I wasn't able to offer him much more information than what I knee about the old electromechanical exchanges I knew from Poland, throwing in some stories about phreaking and blue boxes 😁 By the way, on Twitter the author of this blog just replied https://radioatlanticodelsur.blogspot.com/
