Granite Mountain WACS Site
USA /
Alaska /
Koyuk /
World
/ USA
/ Alaska
/ Koyuk
World / United States / Alaska
telecommunication, tropospheric scatter station, closed / former military
Active as a White Alice Communication System (WACS) site between 1957 and 1976, the Granite Mountain WACS site, callsign GMT was a tropospheric communications and relay site for the US Air Force telecommunication network. Linking the WACS sites of Anvil Mountain to the West, Kotzebue to the North and North River to the South via 135, 107 and 108 mile shots respectively, Granite Mountain operated with the WACS system until its 1976 lease to Alascom.
Today the site remains active within the AT&T Alascom network and still retains much of its WACS infrastructure, including its 60ft parabolic billboard antennae which once handled South and West shots, as well as its 30ft parabolic dishes for its North shots.
www.whitealice.net/
Today the site remains active within the AT&T Alascom network and still retains much of its WACS infrastructure, including its 60ft parabolic billboard antennae which once handled South and West shots, as well as its 30ft parabolic dishes for its North shots.
www.whitealice.net/
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Coordinates: 65°25'41"N 161°13'56"W
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