Three Generations in Five Years (1975–1983)
Jeff Hecht · 1999
Abstract As Bell Labs carefully prepared its Atlanta field trial in the summer of 1975, lightning struck a two-way radio antenna used by the Dorset police in southern England. The current surge destroyed the communication system at the department’s eastern division control room in Bournemouth.3 To keep in touch with roaming officers, the police had to park a patrol car atop a nearby hill to relay signals to other cars.