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Originally Posted by Granitehill
There were some wondrous conspiracy theories around. The view that civilian use was just a front for gov/mil is quite untrue, I'm afraid. (There were discreet military and government radio systems about, but these were not part of the GPO/BT microwave system, and were in completely different locations, run by gov/mil themselves.
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When I worked at BBC Kirk o' Shotts in the early 1980s there was a BT SHF link station further up the hill, and next to that was a military SHF installation. One day there was an organised protest, and the 'Ban the Bomb' lot were all holding hands and surrounding the entire BT SHF link site - I suspect they should've been surrounding the 'other' site, but hey-ho...
I was dispatched next door to pick up a BBC parcel that had been mistakenly delivered to the BT site (further confusion between sites) and was met at the gate, in among the protesters. They were very nice and gave me a big CND balloon to take back to the EiC!
