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Atwood
Photos from in and around Atwood, one of the sites on AT&T's first transcontinental microwave network.

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IMG_0227 Kent, from Kentec Communications, who just happens to own several tower sites here in Colorado invited us to poke around and take pictures inside one of his facilities. The photos here in the
IMG_0228 Note the old AT&T modem on the lower right.
IMG_0229 Dated July 1st, 1982.
IMG_0230 Looking east to west towards the storage room door.
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IMG_0233 Waveguide.
IMG_0243 Everything in it's place, including this speaker.
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IMG_0249 Station list.
IMG_0259 Some of the silver lined radius bend waveguide.
IMG_0262 An open combiner cage. According to Kent the combiners on these towers cost roughly $80,000 each in 1960's dollars, hence the cage around them.
IMG_0264 The Peetz side of the tower.
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IMG_0270 The view from Atwood. Looking north west.
P9160003 That's not a fuse holder, that's furniture...
P9160005 Looking west to east from the engine room door.
P9160015 Where the station logs were kept.
P9160016 A tranciever stack.
P9160017 Yet more waveguide.
P9160018 Farinon SS4000 microwave transmitter. License KAB28.
P9160020 Farinon multiplexer.
P9160021 A Farinon SD-10901 telephone set on top of a Western Electric KS-20099 Multiplex.
P9160022 On the left, Farinon baseband filter units for transit and recieve (SD-80211 and SD-80221 respectively). To the right of those are the Farinon transmitter logic & control unit (SD-80347) and the optimal radio combiner unit (SD-80354).
P9160025 Alternator control.
P9160026 Entry and exit instructions.
P9160028 A dehydrator. This unit removes moisture from the air and uses the dry air to pressurize the waveguides and horns.
P9160037 Thanks go to
P9160038 Tower art.
P9160039 Every nut, bolt, and brace is serialized and labled.
P9160042 One of the newer
P9160044 Looking south east.
P9160046 Looking south. The horns on the right point to Snyder, the left horns point to Peetz.
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