AT&T Turquoise Jct CA

USA / Nevada / Sandy Valley / Turquoise Mountain Road, 5
 abandoned / shut down, telecommunication, microwave tower / microwave transmission, repeater station
Former AT&T long lines junction/switched microwave facility, owned by Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company (now Pacific Bell). Microwave paths were Potosi Mountain (Nevada), Mountain Pass, Kelso, Sandy and Ibex. It is now a UHF repeater site, high level digital.

Turquoise was a major junction point for both commercial and military traffic transitioning east-west along the Mojave Desert corridor. It was a military AUTOVON site and had a semi-hardened structure to protect from nuclear attacks. Antennas on top were known as GEP or Ground Entry Point antennas and were used with the Echo-Fox secure military communications system to communicate with Air Force One.

www.thecentraloffice.com/Microwave/SCMW3.htm
www.drgibson.com/towers/turquoise.html
long-lines.net/places-routes/TurquoiseCA/index.html
www.coldwarcomms.org/td-th/Turquoise/Turquoise.html
www.coldwar-c4i.net/Echo-Fox/index.html
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT&T_Communications#AT.26T_Long_Lines
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Coordinates:   35°26'9"N   115°55'27"W

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  • Verizon Wireless operates a cell site from this location.
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