Now that we’re all self-isolating, the question posed by this photo essay from 2018 is more relevant than ever.
How’s your reception?
Judging by the number of antennas around, it should be pretty good. Perched above and around the cityscape, these endlessly variable contraptions receive and transmit electromagnetic waves, providing signal for the much tinier antennas in our cell phones and other devices.
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And today, despite their behind-the-scenes nature, some of these antennas are delivering pictures of themselves.
Photo Key:
1. Distant array above West Rock (Hamden).
2. Radio tower in Radio Towers Park (Benham Street and Denslow Hill Road, Hamden).
3. Canonical ground plane antenna visible from the Crown Street Garage (New Haven).
4. Yagi-Uda antenna visible from the Crown Street Garage (New Haven).
5. Grid antenna above the Crown Street Garage.
6. Two mast radiators (nearer) and a radio tower (farther) at Radio Towers Park (Benham Street and Denslow Hill Road, Hamden).
7. Dish antennas above WTNH (8 Elm Street, New Haven).
8. Yagi-Uda antenna above the Crown Street Garage (New Haven).
9. Omnidirectional antennas above East Rock.
10. Array above the Connecticut Financial Center (157 Church Street, New Haven).
11. Array above the Frontier Communications building (310 Orange Street, New Haven).
12. Array above East Rock.
13. Array above the Technolutions building (234 Church Street, New Haven).
14. Sector antennas above a building along Howe Street near Edgewood Avenue (New Haven).
15. Yagi-Uda antenna above the former Hotel Duncan (1151 Chapel Street, New Haven), with an array above Yale’s Payne-Whitney Gym in the distance.
Written and photographed by Dan Mims. This lightly updated story was originally published on May 4, 2018.
