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Discarded AT&T Microwave Bunkers For Sale
InitZero writes "American Tower is selling nearly 2000 old AT&T Long Line microwave locations that are no longer needed thanks to fiber. These towers -- spaced about 50 miles in every direction -- and their associated bunkers were designed to withstand World War III. The average location (find one near you) has two acres of land, 1,800 square feet worth of bunker and a tower of 200 feet. Some locations still have their hardware (60KW generator, microwave feedlines, equipment racks, feed horns, etc.) All this for an average price of just $25,000. If you're a ham radio operator, building a data center or just looking for a place to put your wireless access point, these locations look awesome."
oh no! Terrorists have attacked the slashdot comment system!
Well, I tried to post a reply several times before there were any comments and was confronted with failure as slashcode seemed unable to realize that I did have both a Subject Line and Body to my post. I suspect others were trying to post too and got shut down by some bit of flakiness in slashcode. Oh well. Wonder what kind of condition these things are in what it would take to make them livable?
> I say setup a decent 'net connection and become a digital hermit.
Yeah, you could download a lot of porn over one of those receivers!
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
whoever modded that down doesn't know dukey about SIGINT or Echelon or the security failures of line-of-sight microwave telco transmissions.
your cluelessness shouldn't result in my punishment.
Just raise the taxes on crack.
Just start your BASIC class there, buddy?
"Derp de derp."
We don't turn the power up on our Cat 5 because we're talk to Slashdot and eBay at the same time...
Damn! So that's what I've been doing wrong!