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The company still owns this one.

good video! love the 'fly-around' of the horns, in sync with the powerful music. think of all the phone calls, all of the television broadcasts that were carried by these antennas

is there a microwave tower at this site? (I see something bottom left at 1:07... but I can't tell what it is)

AT&T use to have a 5G Relay in the steeple of our church. I guess it was good income for the church. I got there after ATT&T had moved elsewhere. Honestly, having such a high power 5 G transmitter in the same building, IMHO, isn't a good health source.

Nice and thank you.

i live nearby...they had local people in there cutting the grass and an inflatable alien zip tied in the guard shack haha...years ago we had a gentleman who was a member of our amateur radio club who worked in that location...long time Bell of Pennsylvania employee and we got a tour of the place...he is long gone now but they had racks and racks of equipment and we got to talk to one another on one of the unused uplink and down link frequencies and it was like a 2 or 3 second delay...it was cool. this was like 1988 or 1989 if memory serves correctly. he said that the next closest relay point was in the Congo and was totally remotely controlled.

I believe this tower was connected to the AT&T long lines tower on Pine Grove Mountain (State College). Following old antenna diode maps, it appears at one point these towers communicated. Unfortunately the site no longer has microwave horns and is now owned by American Tower, in which it has been repurposed for LTE/Cellular.

I never realized how vast this microwave system was. Incredible technology for the time. It’s really sad that most of the long lines towers around FL no longer have the horn antennas. Just empty towers with square holes where the horns once were 😢

Awesome video! I know of a long lines tower just about the size of this one thats just outside of Auburn, MS. Sadly im not sure how much longer it will be there as its completely left abandoned, no cone antennas anymore and it never had any new equipment put on it just a tower now.

Worked on that tower in 1968.

Not even a cell site at this point. How sad.

We still have active towers and horns being used by DoD.

Where did the horn antennas go?

Is there a resource you use to find these sites? Im not super familiar with these and would love to see if I could find one to see in person. I assume, given my region (Southern Ozarks) that theyre around but difficult to get to, due to the geography and property ownership, etc.

I thoroughly enjoy watching your videos of the old Long Line sites as it reminds me of the unadulterated imagination of my childhood. This was the leading edge of technology in those days and to take a long distance call was a unique experience: Unlike today, we could hear the "lag time" in the microwave transmission from sender to receiver. It presented as an echo of sorts. Again, thank you for you diligence and cinematography, which is wonderful.

Talk about the middle of nowhere.

Great videography! Well done.

beautiful

See that large rectangular formation on the ground, at the northwest end? Looks like the remnant of a wastewater retention basin, similar to what was incorporated into Army missile bases in the early 70s. It's the correct size and distance from the main buildings. I'll bet that there is / was lots of self-sufficiency built into the facility; maybe much below ground. The utility entrance appears to be on the northeast side of the building, near where it looks like the HVAC equipment and generators are housed.

This looks like a minor connection relay site. No "garage door" on the bunker, indicating there was probably nothing below. If there are no modern antennas on the tower, it's probably not in use for anyone anymore. Note how the MW horns appear to focus just slightly around the nearby mountain. They beam their signals in a zig-zag pattern to avoid interference from other stations directly in line.

I'd liked to think it's still operational. It's a beautiful site.

Used to work micro wave in army. Best was 48 channel's in relay and/with 34 miles to next station. genrators,, fuel, food. Supplys ,and waste removal done by chopper. Never did it land ....we were truly alone...

Thanks for sharing. I’m in Deming is this the one past rockhound state park? I also heard one was about 16 miles SE of Deming.

Sick vid! I just started learning about these towers and I can't believe I never knew about them before. Also, longshot, but do you know if the longlines bunker in Pottstown is accessible? I found the location of it, but it's about three hours away and I wanna get some background before I drive to it.

They did a great job of scouting locations for these towers.