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CN Tower, Behind the Scenes (2014) (site.roadwolf.ca)
Roadwolf 9 minutes ago [-]
Am the OP of the blog. Was for sure a fun time working there - I can maybe answer any questions?
theyknowitsxmas 15 hours ago [-]
The elevator LEDs pan hidden pictures.

https://youtu.be/rqFMbXMfS9Q

ianpenney 17 hours ago [-]
A community member recently got meshtastic nodes CNT1 and CNT2 installed! Here’s a bit of old lore about the environment they’re located in.
Roadwolf 7 minutes ago [-]
It is funny because I am working on getting some LoRa nodes installed on Seneca One tower in Buffalo.
tripdout 15 hours ago [-]
From someone who knows nothing about this, they got some approval (presumably) to install some LoRa transmitter radios in the CN tower?
ianpenney 15 hours ago [-]
It’s above board.
neom 14 hours ago [-]
1RG? I was just over there the other day with Boris Mann and they were discussing this I think? (https://1rg.space/)
ianpenney 17 hours ago [-]
jt2190 14 hours ago [-]
TIL

> Meshtastic is a project that enables you to use inexpensive LoRa radios as a long range off-grid communication platform in areas without existing or reliable communications infrastructure. This project is 100% community driven and open source!

https://meshtastic.org/docs/introduction/

xattt 9 hours ago [-]
Many moons ago, I went to the Space Deck level on the CN tower, carrying an analog Hi8 Sony Handycam.

The amount of RF is (understandably) so intense at that level that it was able to induce visual static in the LCD viewfinder. The static came and went, depending on where you were standing, but did not record to tape.

thisisnotauser 14 hours ago [-]
I was here today and had no idea there was radio transmitter stuff around. I even poked my head in a few out-of-the-way doors. Well-isolated, I suppose.
whalesalad 16 hours ago [-]
I love stuff like this. I had a behind the scenes album from inside a turbine that was down for maintenance at the Hoover dam, but my laptop was stolen right around that time and I had no backups (before the cloud). Very spooky watching water drip into the turbine housing (which you could nearly stand up in) knowing an enormous lake was directly above you.
17 hours ago [-]
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