| Many public utilities are looking for other sources of revenue. The
Columbia Tennessee Power and Water is entering the Cable Television business
and Middle Tennessee Two-way was there to help by installing the off-the-air
receiving antennas on their communications tower. The Yaggi antennas are
used to pull in the weak television signals from Nashville. The antennas
seen in subsequent pages are used to provide basic cable television reception
to the subscribers. The signals are taken from the tower on Reservoir
Hill to the main office on Pickens Street in Columbia by fiber optic cable
and then onto the customers by a series of overhead and underground cables.
An interesting feature is four small television cameras which we installed
at the 180 level on the tower giving a three-hundred sixty degree view
of the surrounding area. |
