PTT Voice Mirrors (Part 3): Circa 1970's
/Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes:
Broadcaster: PTT voice mirrors from the 1970's Part 3
Frequency: various
Recption location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada
Receiver and antenna: Hallicrafters S-52 using a longwire antenna
Mode: Single Side Band
Notes:
Point to point stations were commonly found on shortwave in the 1970's outside of the normal SWBC bands. They could often be heard transmitting a repeating test message so a receiving station could tune them in prior to conducting radiotelephone traffic.1. U.S. Army radio station ACA, Panama Canal Zone
2. Oostende Radio, Belgium
3. PTT, Dakar, Senegal
4. Reugen Radio, German Democratic Republic
5. Venezuelan Telephone Company, Caracas
6. French Telecommunications Service, Djibouti
7. British Post Office Phototelegraph Network (no location given)
8. Canadian Overseas Telecommunications Corporation,
Yamachiche, Quebec
9. ENTEL, Bogota, Colombia
10. Belgian Telegraph and Telephone Administration, Brussels
11. British Post Office, London, England
12. France Cables and Radio Company, Fort Lamy, Chad
13. PTT, Blantyre, Malawi
14. East African External Telecommunications Company Limited,
Nairobi, Kenya
15. International Telecommunications Corporation, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
16. Office Congolais des Postes et Telecommunications, Kinshasa,Democratic Republic of the Congo