AT&T Turquoise Jct CA
USA /
Nevada /
Sandy Valley /
Turquoise Mountain Road, 5
World
/ USA
/ Nevada
/ Sandy Valley
World / United States / California
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
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
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 35°26'9"N 115°55'27"W
- Angel Peak FAA Radio Site 103 km
- Oatman Radio Site 148 km
- Hayden Peak Radio Site 188 km
- Corona Junction AT&T Hardened Microwave Facility 234 km
- Santiago Peak Radio Site 242 km
- Former Julian AT&T Long Lines Microwave Facility 261 km
- Signal Peak Radio Site 267 km
- Lyons Peak 314 km
- APS Buckeye substation 378 km
- Microwave Relay Station "Cerro de Lava" 437 km
- Baker Grade 11 km
- Old Dad Mountains 35 km
- Marl Mountains 39 km
- Kelso Mountains 43 km
- Devils Playground 46 km
- Mojave National Preserve 50 km
- Ivanpah Lake 50 km
- Kelso Sand Dunes 59 km
- Cornfield Canyon 63 km
- Providence Mountains State Recreation Area 66 km
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