Former Duncan Canal WACS Site

 military, demolished, tropospheric scatter station

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Established in 1960 as a White Alice Communications System (WACS) tropospheric scatter communications relay site along the Rearward Communications System of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS), the Duncan Canal WACS site (callsign DNC), relayed communications between the WACS stations at Hoonah to the North and Smugglers Cove to the South via 127 and 130 mile shots respectively.

Equipped with four 60ft antennas for its transmissions, the site operated as part of the "A" or Alpha Route of the Rearward Communications System which stretched down the Southeast coast of Alaska, where communications were transferred to a subsea cable to the mainland US.

The site was idled in the late 1970's after the WACS system was rendered obsolete by satellite communications, and was subsequently razed in 1986 and the site environmentally remediated by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation in several projects during the 1990's and early 2000's.

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