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Yard of the Swan with Two Necks, Lad Lane, London, 1831 Spent coach-horses Place de Passy, Paris. A stage station or relay station, also known as a staging post, a posting station, or a stage stop, is a facility along a main road or trade route where a traveller can rest and/or replace exhausted working animals (mostly riding horses) for fresh ones, since long journeys are much faster with ...
The ALLISS module is a fully rotatable antenna system for high power (typically 500 kW only) shortwave radio broadcasting—it essentially is a self contained shortwave relay station. Most of the world's shortwave relay stations do not use this technology, due to its cost (15m EUR per ALLISS module: Transmitter + Antenna + Automation equipment).
Construction of Bethany Station began in the summer of 1943, and the first broadcast was transmitted on September 23, 1944. World War II Impact Before creation of the Office of War Information, Crosley Corp. had a prior lease and broadcasting arrangement with the U.S. government in 1940, to operate radio station WLWO (WLW Overseas ...
A Husky truck stop in Calgary in Alberta, Canada. A truck stop (known as a service station in the United Kingdom, [1] a travel center by major chains in the United States and a roadhouse in rural Australia) is a commercial facility which provides refueling, rest (), and often ready-made food and other services to motorists and truck drivers.
NHK digital television, KRY, TYS and YAB transmitter in Iwakuni. A broadcast relay station, also known as a satellite station, relay transmitter, broadcast translator (U.S.), re-broadcaster (Canada), repeater (two-way radio) or complementary station (Mexico), is a broadcast transmitter which repeats (or transponds) the signal of a radio or television station to an area not covered by the ...
Networks of microwave relay stations transmit telephone calls, television programs, and computer data from one city to another over continent-wide areas. Passive repeater: This is a microwave relay that simply consists of a flat metal surface to reflect the microwave beam in another direction. It is used to get microwave relay signals over ...
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In the 1950s, a broadband network of AT&T L-carrier and microwave relays known as Long Lines was constructed. These circuits could be (and were) used for normal telephone traffic, but were also used to relay the video signals of the three US commercial television networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) to their various affiliated stations around the country.