relay tower

This time I made it to the top, the tower itself was shaking loads, but I got some cool shots on the way there. I then wanted some more, so I dangled my feet off of the ledge, and there was when I finally got over my fear of heights :thumb --- First came here with some mates (thanks to ...

History Christmas Common is a US Air Force microwave relay station in the 'Digital European Backbone' network, which linked the EUCOM war headquarters at High Wycombe, Bucks (Daws Hill)to the Upper Heyford F-111 base. In 1990, $210,000 was allocated in the US Defense budget tot provide heavy...

Me and @jack watkins wanted to do a climb and this was relativity close to us so we got a lift up and gave it a shot! It was very cold and neither of us has gloves so were freezing out fingers off on the cold metal rungs of the ladder. At the top the view was nice but the wind made it less so...

The history There are very few details regarding the mast available, but what I did find was that it is a former USAF radio relay station, and is around 200 feet or so tall. The mast is a US Air Force microwave relay station and part of the Digital European Backbone network. This network...

Christmas Common relay tower January 2015. I was looking for something to do and found out that this USAF microwave relay tower was only going to be a 30 minute drive. Couldn't have picked a better day specially in January it was cold but clear so got a good view at the top. Cant find much...

Christmas Common Relay Tower – June 2014 Visited with TBM a while back in June, the delay is down to needing to take the time to edit the video. We visited what we HOPE is a disused relay tower. It has one drum, maybe a repeater, on the side but the land is so overgrown and unkempt I’m...