Cape Lisburne WACS Site | tropospheric scatter station, closed / former military

 tropospheric scatter station, closed / former military

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Operational between September 1957 and 1979, Cape Lisburne was the Northernmost White Alice Communications System site in the WACS network and one of two which provided a direct link to the DEW (Distant Early Warning) Line. Linked to both systems by means of a of a 167 mile shot Southeast to the Kotzebue WACS site and to the DEW Line initially by a 58 mile shot to the LIZ-A site at Cape Sabine and later a 97 mile shot to LIZ-2 at Point Lay to the Northeast, the site was equipped with a pair of 60ft antennae operating at 60kw for the Kotzebue shot and a pair of 30ft circular antennae for the DEW line shots.

Operational through the 1979 shutdown of the WACS network, the site was briefly utilized by AT&T Alascom for microwave transmissions until a new site was erected alongside the airfield in the late 1980's. Idle thereafter, the site and the rest of the top camp infrastructure was razed and removed in the Summer of 2001 as part of Operation Clean Sweep.

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