John Sampson said: Missed the first part of this thread but this aroused my curiosity. Was this a spur off of the old AT&T backbone microwave network? /////// John (and all who are interested), Buckhorn Mountain was an AT&T microwave site linking Broomfield, Greeley, and Timnath in CO and Cheyenne and Crow Creek Hill (Laramie) in WY. It was part of the first transcontinental microwave network. The Timnath site linked to the Longmont site which John mentioned. At Longmont the radio path intersected the L4 hardened coax route which linked Denver and Platte Junction WY. Platte Junction was an underground site on the east-west transcontinental cable route. The Longmont site is very visible to anyone travelling on I-25 between Denver and Fort Collins as it is right next to the highway at what is known locally as Mead Mountain or Mead Hill. The CDOT TIS station on 530 kHz that IDs as Mead is also located at that point. The AT&T microwave equipment at this site has been removed. But the tower is intact and still in use for mobile telephone and two-way radio. The large building is externally intact. But I do not know if the facility is still an active part of the underground cable route. There is a lot of very interesting historic information about AT&T Long Lines available on the Web.
Patrick Griffith, CBT CBNT CRO Westminster CO http://community.webtv.net/AM-DXer/ http://community.webtv.net/N0NNK/ _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
