{"id":31024,"date":"2025-03-18T01:03:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T05:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=31024"},"modified":"2025-03-15T19:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T23:32:56","slug":"billboard-in-the-bog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/billboard-in-the-bog\/","title":{"rendered":"billboard in the bog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31025\" style=\"width: 158px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/billboard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31025\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31025\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/billboard-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Tropo-Scatter Antenna in Labrador c1959 from the back<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Photo collectors often cherish \u00a0outdoor photos and work photos. This image hits both topics, but may be a bit too new for the collecting fraternity. Shown here is a billboard size Tropospheric Scatter antenna from the late 1950s. Microwave frequencies were bounced off the troposphere (about six miles up) and scattered to be received by a similar antenna a few hundred miles away.<\/p>\n<p>The tropo-technology when installed was already too late as within decades it was superseded by satellites, fibre optics, internet, digital technology, etc. Although this equipment photo may be &#8216;new&#8217; by collecting standards, photographs of the technology deserve to be collected since so few systems were installed (and photographed).<\/p>\n<p>NB: The post title is based on the Ogden Nash parody of Joyce Kilmer&#8217;s poem. Nash wrote (more or less), &#8220;I never saw a <a href=\"https:\/\/quoteinvestigator.com\/2015\/04\/14\/tree\/\">billboard<\/a> as lovely as a tree, in fact unless the billboards fall, I&#8217;ll never see a tree at all&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whether you collect images or cameras, or research photo history, be sure to visit our events. See PHSC EVENTS to the right for time and place. Of course a post will be pinned at the top of this page close to each event date,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Photo collectors often cherish \u00a0outdoor photos and work photos. This image hits both topics, but may be a bit too new for the collecting fraternity. Shown here is a billboard size Tropospheric Scatter antenna from the late 1950s. Microwave &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/billboard-in-the-bog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[4482,220,4706],"class_list":["post-31024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-labrador","tag-photos","tag-tropospheric"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31024"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31029,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31024\/revisions\/31029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}