Former RCAF Station Stoney Mountain (SCS-800)

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Established in March 1957 as a Sector Control Station in the Mid-Canada Line (MCL), RCAF Station Stoney Mountain, callsign Filament, was one of eight Sector Control Stations responsible for the operation, maintenance and monitoring of the string of unmanned doppler detection sites located approximately 50 km apart in its sector. The site also operated as one of four Rearward/Vertical Communications sites built to receive and relay surveillance data from the remote Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line sites to military authorities in the United States under the callsign of WAT-X. This task was accomplished by the use of a IS-101 Ionoscatter Radio system, also known as the AN/FRC-101, which carried data teletype transmissions to and from the DEW-Main site at Cape Parry (PIN-MAIN).

Remaining operational in its DEW Line role until the 1963 phase out of the IS-101 communications system, the site operated for an additional year in the Mid Canada Line until advances in both equipment and tactics led to the entire MCL system being made obsolete. Officially shutting down in it's MCL role in January of 1964, the site and the assigned RCAF crews were disbanded on 01 March 1964.

Today little evidence remains of the site, as much of the infrastructure was razed in the years subsequent to its closure and the town of Anzac has been built on the site lands. A portion of Stoney Mountain Road is built atop the former airstrip that once served as the primary access point for the site before the construction of permanent road and rail connections in the area.

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