{"id":2129,"date":"2010-08-01T21:06:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T21:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/?p=2129"},"modified":"2010-08-01T21:06:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T21:06:27","slug":"modern-technology-at-maghtab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/modern-technology-at-maghtab\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern technology at Maghtab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maltese telecoms firm GO has updated the kit at its <a href=\"\/soundmirrors\/locations\/il-widna-malta\/\">Maghtab site<\/a>, by the sound mirror:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In comments, [Prime Minister] Dr Gonzi said the Maghtab headend site was symbolically important because of the sound mirror, a primitive radar built some 70 years ago to detect and amplify the sounds of air and sea vessels nearing Malta. <\/p>\n<p>This is the only sound mirror built outside England but became outdated within three to seven years since being built because it was replaced by radars. <\/p>\n<p>Dr Gonzi said that even nowadays, major investment in technology became outdated quickly and companies needed to continue investing consistently.<\/p>\n<p><cite><a href=http:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/news.asp?newsitemid=109807\">GO fully equipped to transmit English and Italian football<\/a>, Annaliza Borg, The Malta Independent<\/cite>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maltese telecoms firm GO has updated the kit at its Maghtab site, by the sound mirror: In comments, [Prime Minister] Dr Gonzi said the Maghtab headend site was symbolically important because of the sound mirror, a primitive radar built some 70 years ago to detect and amplify the sounds of air and sea vessels nearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-2129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individual-mirrors","category-links","tag-maghtab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}