AT&T Omps Long Lines / AUTOVON Switching Station | military, microwave tower / microwave transmission

USA / West Virginia / Capon Bridge /

military, microwave tower / microwave transmission

AT&T Omps Long Lines / AUTOVON Switching Station

Supported Cold War era DOD AUTOVON telecommunications network run by AT&T Long Lines division. This is a quasi hardened station located just outside the blast radius of a 100 megaton air burst Hydrogen bomb centered on Washington DC.

Also served as a switching station on AT&T's normal long distance microwave relay network.

www.long-lines.net/places-routes/omps_va/index.html

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Coordinates: 39°27'41"N 78°20'52"W

Eastern WV Regional Airport/Shepherd Field (MRB/KMRB) 30 km
Major AT&T Long Line Cable Segment Path 36 km
AT&T Long LInes Fiber Trunks from Thurmont and Camp David 82 km
Letterkenny Army Depot 84 km
Fort George G. Meade 140 km
Davidsonville Transmitter Site 152 km
Aberdeen Proving Grounds Test Track 177 km
Aberdeen Proving Ground 180 km
Fort Indiantown Gap Cantonment 185 km
Former United States Naval Training Center, Bainbridge 193 km

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