Cold War Autovon Telephone Exchange - Ipswich
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- This was filmed many years ago and have finally got round to editing. Not a typical explore as this was more of a tour than a free roam around. I filmed what i could so please enjoy.
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I love how your friends get along. It's good to have mates.
Smashing video, and great to see Steve back!
17:50 BPO == British Post Office and at 17:55 the usual termination equipment and ‘U’ links to connect and test private circuits (leased lines) to other locations. The Autovon system was unusual as a telephone system as it allowed for preemption of existing calls by calls from a higher authority level, so a colonel could interrupt a call from a mere captain etc.
Interesting explore folks Thank you very much Ian Cheers
Foxhall. I visited there back in the 80’s as a local Cub Scout, whilst it was still in use by the US! first time I’d ever tasted Diet Coke!!
Theres a basement area here as well that got filled in after a fire, plus some tunnels, the evidence is they are there but the entrances have never been found.
The tunnels is supposed to lead to a building at Foxhall stadium.
There is an awful lot of information about the site on Facebook, on the raf bentwaters/Woodbridge site.
We've been and had a tour a couple of years ago with Charlie and Will who were there.
Now a museum which holds events
Hilarious how the auto subtitles are completely unable to cope with that lovely Suffolk accent.
17:16 standard MDF (main distribution frame) with fused links to all the telephone circuits on site.
29:16 Looks like the vertical surfaces of a BAe Hawk? The emblem is that of the 4th FTS.
For a tenner and a guided tour, I'd say you got your money's worth, Ian.
Very interesting place.
Great narration on the intro.
Thank you folk
I understand many of these older exchanges were full of electro-mechanical switches. Given the location, it begs the question which switch is Ipswich?
yes lads 🔥🔥🔥 fingerboarding to this 🛹🛹🛹
Used to pick wild oats out of the fields surrounding this back in the 80s for the local farmer for 50 pence hr. Tight bugger.
My mate rob sprayed his full name in 6ft letters on the side of the building and got arrested. Knob
There was big staterlite dishes on top then.
True story
That's how most of Ipswich looks nowadays
You come come to Dover recently lol
Great job... but I have a question... Do you get the same buzz/feeling when your given access to somewhere or find somewhere to explore? .. I know for me it's better letting your thoughts wander when walking round some of those types of places... stay safe 🏴.. ps.. hope your still having tha fry ups in the van to...
Me personally love abandoned sites take long as you want and chill I’m not a tour sort of folk lol but sometimes you got to do it :)
Was that "gerald "from "clarksons farm" showing you about
Fohall dudes.. this was a cold war telephony site for usaf comms to Germany.
used to have 3 parabolic dishes on the masts and red warning lights
Thanks folk
Interesting thanks for sharing:)
By god those transits are noisy but highly reliable
They could regester the site as a filming location for easy money or do some basic housekeeping and have some event spaces.
Thought this was some kind of Urban explore channel, where you guys sneak into places and show us stuff we're not supposed to see .
Instead we're getting a paid for guided tour . LOL
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Didn’t expect that lol 😂
Ian and Chris, sent Chris some file links on autovon system FYI.
Thank you folk
COYB
Do u have the link for fez’s page?
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The masts used to have large tropospheric scattering dishes on them, and they were very impressive. There were also armed guards in evidence, back in the 1990's.
The museum is excellent, and the people who staff it really know their stuff. A visit when open, is recommended. 👍👍👍
I photographed a coal fired power plant once that had a massive Halon gas extinguisher system, still charged. The whole place still had power. For how dangerous it was, the extinguisher system looked strangely innocuous with it's tiny little caution signs, easily overlooked, next to it's giant canisters of unsuspectingly deadly gas inside them lol. That's the US for you.
Oh man this is gonna be great. Love the old telecom systems and long lines etc.
Great to see steve back in RUclips videos.
Indeed!
Well, was it worth a tenner 😂
It's so empty!
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Our Ham Radio club is on that site.
There's videos of people making love at the top of the tower there holding on