Former Mid-Canada Line Communications Relay Site Kempis (Site 070)

Canada / Ontario / Kirkland Lake /
 demolished, tropospheric scatter station, former air force base
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Constructed in 1956 to serve as a terminal station in the troposcatter rearward communications network of the Mid-Canada Line (MCL), Site 070 atop Kempis Mountain went online in April of 1957. As a terminal station, radar data and communications from both the main MCL communications center at Cape Henrietta Maria and the NORAD Command Center at RCAF North Bay would be received and transmitted from this site by means of a pair of 60ft antenna operating at 10kW for the 128 mile shot North to Relay as well as a hardwire connection to direct communication lines running straight to North Bay.

Remaining operational through the life of the Mid-Canada Line, both the Tropo mission carried out by the station came to an end in April of 1965 when the Eastern Sector for the MCL was formally shut down. Essentially abandoned thereafter, the site underwent full-scale demolition and environmental remediation in 2010. Today a commercial micorwave and radio broadcast antenna are located in the area of the MCL-era site.

lswilson.dewlineadventures.com/tropo070.htm
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Canada_Line_Site_070_Kempis
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Coordinates:   48°22'35"N   80°16'4"W

Comments

  • Not the radar station. Merely a communications tower.
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