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I had just moved to Toronto in about 2002, and was waiting for an interview. I saw one of those microwave horns on a building in the distance. Puzzling over w

I had just moved to Toronto in about 2002, and was waiting for an interview. I saw one of those microwave horns on a building in the distance. Puzzling over what it was. Interview started, talking about something glanced over the background and muttered verbally "Microwave" as it hit me that it was a microwave waveguide of some sort. Didn't get the job...

walrus01 5y ago
The entire lower white donut ring around the bottom of the CN tower is a radome, inside are ptp microwave dishes. It was a lot more relevant in the era before singlemode fiber went everywhere. Looks like this inside. https://www.jagelectromagnetics.com/images/jag_cataloug_images/JAG_Catalogues_CN_Tower.jpg https://www.jagelectromagnetics.com/images/jag_cataloug_imag... Nowadays there is some 2.0GHz band ENG stuff up there for live news gathering stand ups.