The camera is looking northwest in this picture. The horns that once were on the right (east) side would have communicated with the Maxwell site to the east. Another ring support for the east route's space-diversity horn antenna is located only one third of the way up the tower's northeast (rightmost) leg, perhaps only 45 feet above the ground.

Farther up the tower, a mezzanine also juts out to the right and could have supported a single horn. According to the maps, there was a route from Sutherland to the North Platte* central office to the northeast. I suspect this was its antenna location.

The original, classical white equipment house south of the tower had been converted to a two-vehicle garage, and a larger concrete slab equipment building was constructed east of the tower. (*There are many parallels between the communications and transportation routes across mid-America. North Platte was one of the towns on the transcontinental railroad. It has become home to the largest railroad classification switchyard in the USA. The Union Pacific railroad operates 125 trains/day over this east-west route between the left and right coasts. It physically rivals the intense fiber optic traffic buried in its right-of-way. Perhaps the Sprint people now use the golf course and lake.)