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Originally Posted by jrc
Speaking of Mount Belknap, has anybody been up there lately?
They moved all the antennas from the fire tower to the radio tower. Plus the moved or maybe removed all the buildings near the fire tower. Just foundations remain. I still don't know how they did it, no road to the top.
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What happened was WLNH went up there this winter. In exchange for permission, they built a new building with everything imaginable and replaced the tower, so everyone could be housed in one place. Prior to that, NHEC went up and replaced the Rohn 25G that LRMFA and BCSO used. Prior to that, Metrocast went up there to receive their signals from all over, their exchange was running power and phone poles up. The antennas on the fire tower were primarily NHSPs.
Its a far cry from 30 years ago, when they ran armored 220V/30A up to what amounted to an outhouse and a 6 pair phone cable all on the ground with only LRMFA and BCSO. Its now quite a state of the art facility loaded with customers. Private enterprise doing what government can't.
It was mostly accomplished by helicopter.