Great page, Daryl. The tower does look unusual - much broader than I'd expect given its low height.. As an aside, this is the first time I've seen an AT&T...
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Joe_Cyr
Echoplex@...
Dec 3, 2000 8:07 pm
I now have the front matter and first four chapters of the subject manual on my web site at http://www.sew-lexicon.com. When you get to the site, just click...
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Scott Murdock
scott-murdock@...
Dec 3, 2000 9:13 pm
Last month I visited Alabama, and visited sites in that state as well as MS, TN, GA, and LA. Locations include two GWEN sites, two AT&T repeater huts, some...
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Clay Gibbs
sierra391@...
Dec 4, 2000 1:35 am
Scoured around Slidell La. and St. Tammany Parish today in search of NORADs SEAD site J-13 and came up empty ! Looking for help for any roads to take, clues to...
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Scott Murdock
scott-murdock@...
Dec 4, 2000 1:54 am
Clay, You can find a map and photos (ground and aerial) of the Slidell site (and many many others) at the Online Radar Museum: http://www.radomes.org/museum/ ...
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Albert LaFrance
alafrance@...
Dec 4, 2000 3:39 am
Clay, Nice find - I hadn't heard about that place. Turns out they have a web page - http://www.slidell.disa.mil/ Also, I found this: 9.0 DISASTER RECOVERY ...
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Joe_Cyr
Echoplex@...
Dec 7, 2000 10:27 pm
I finally have completed scanning the subject document which can be viewed on http://www.sew-lexicon.com by clicking on the link "1963 Civil Defense Manual"....
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Mark Foster
mfoster@...
Dec 8, 2000 3:25 am
Probably to save their investment. I bet NSA spent a bundle putting a backdoor in the system and was already to start the vacuum when the system went belly...
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Albert LaFrance
alafrance@...
Dec 8, 2000 4:01 am
Joe, Thanks for posting that, and nice job with the indexing! The section on the National Emergency Alarm Repeater got my attention: ...
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Dave Emery
die@...
Dec 8, 2000 4:41 am
... On the contrary, I know that several government agencies and military service branches were banking on having Iridium for secure mobile world wide...
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Mike Jacobs
mwj116@...
Dec 8, 2000 8:04 am
$72 million is a bargain for this kind of service, I might add. Mike Jacobs, N3MJ Antenna and RF Engineering Laboratory Penn State University State College, PA...
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Mark Foster
mfoster@...
Dec 8, 2000 9:25 pm
See last paragraph....
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Mark Foster
mfoster@...
Dec 8, 2000 10:55 pm
Looking for information and/or location of Earth Station at Roaring Creek, PA. Found Roaring Creek on Terraserver but could not visually locate a facility. My...
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Albert LaFrance
alafrance@...
Dec 8, 2000 11:52 pm
Apparently it's still an active AT&T facility. A search with the Google search engine for "Roaring Creek" and "AT&T" gets quite a few hits. So far, I haven't...
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Albert LaFrance
alafrance@...
Dec 9, 2000 4:58 pm
I've posted a couple of pictures of the unusual outbuilding at the AT&T microwave station on Kates Mountain in WV. That station was the AT&T interface for the...
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Albert LaFrance
alafrance@...
Dec 10, 2000 12:58 pm
A brief description of the role of AT&T's underground site at Cheshire, CT: http://members.esslink.com/~szypulsk/sbel0697.htm Albert...
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Albert LaFrance
alafrance@...
Dec 10, 2000 3:08 pm
I've added a photo of the tower and antennas at the AT&T Kates Mountain, WV site. The tower is more slender than the typical AT&T microwave tower, and lacks a...
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Ken Hoehn
khoehn@...
Dec 11, 2000 3:04 am
Albert LaFrance wrote: On the back edge of ... Al: Did you note the age of the antennas and installation? Are the consistent with the BSPPs employed during...
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Clay Gibbs
sierra391@...
Dec 13, 2000 12:00 am
An article for the Bunkerheads.. Clay ... http://www.gertzfile.com/InsidetheRing.html December 8, 2000 Notes from the Pentagon Fidel's underground Cuban...
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Albert LaFrance
alafrance@...
Dec 14, 2000 4:57 am
From yet another list of alien bases: http://members.aol.com/phikent/orbit/11re46.htm PENNSYLVANIA 93. Blue Ridge Summit, near Ft. Ritchie, known as 'Raven...
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Mark Foster
mfoster@...
Dec 15, 2000 7:20 pm
Many people report that AT&T underground sites are 1, 2, 3, or 4 stories deep. (There is a story that the Chatham Site is 13 stories deep). Most of the ones I...
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Daryl Gibson
drgibson@...
Dec 15, 2000 8:52 pm
American Tower has now posted a list of what appears to be all of the AT&T towers that have passed into their hands. The list is readable online, or...
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Mark Foster
mfoster@...
Dec 16, 2000 1:17 am
... AT Web page seems to have problems at this time........
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Daryl Gibson
drgibson@...
Dec 16, 2000 3:00 am
... Hmm...well, I have temporarily put a copy of it on one of my web sites, at the URL: http://www.drgibson.com/towers/attsites.xls It seems to have a few...
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Matthew Sadler
mws@...
Dec 16, 2000 3:05 am
It also seems to be missing probably quite a few that ATC owns. I can think of at least 5 within 100 miles of Chattanooga that aren't on the list but were...
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Albert LaFrance
alafrance@...
Dec 16, 2000 7:58 am
A former Dranesville employee told me that site has three floors. The stairs from the entrance building go down to a blast door on the second floor; a set of...
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Albert LaFrance
alafrance@...
Dec 16, 2000 7:21 pm
I've just posted a three-page article from the Bell Labs Record (as reprinted in the Aug. '69 issue of Electronics World), about nuclear hardening in the Bell...
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Jim Innes
james.e.innes.cgs80@...
Dec 16, 2000 7:45 pm
I have plans for Clarksville, NY at my office, and I'll verify the actual no. of stories. It was a power injection and route junction station, about 48,000...
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Mark Foster
mfoster@...
Dec 16, 2000 10:09 pm
... The reprint appeared in the January 1969 Bell Lab's Record. R. W. Mayo was the supervisor of the Hardened Structures Division of Bell Labs. I have been ...
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Mark Foster
mfoster@...
Dec 16, 2000 10:09 pm
... While I have not found any evidence of testing of the underground structures (I am sure there must have been), I did find a photo of structures similar to...
