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AT&T Earth Station In McGrath, Alaska

SomeRadioGuy

SomeRadioGuy

The AT&T earth station in McGrath, Alaska. They don’t provide local landline or cellphone service here, just long distance.

I suspect that the white microwave dish points towards GCI's earth station and the omnis RX/GX GCI because i think 911 is handed off form uui/gci to ATT and those omnis look very similar to the ones that are on the booster/fill in GCI cell site closer to town

 
We had an earth station here on Vashon Island that provided long distant phone and other connectivity to Alaska from the early 80's to early 2000's. It was owned by called Alascom and linked AT&T Seattle Via microwave to the Vashon earth station that communicated with another at Eagle River, Anchorage. ATT eventually bought out Alascom, now called AT&T Alaska
 
If McGrath had/has an ARCS translator on TV, is this the tower that they used? If you don't know, ARCS is the Alaska Rural Communications Service, what used to be the Alaska Satellite TV Project, and they take selected programming from several networks + PBS and syndication, originated from Anchorage.

Did the Earth Station on Vashon retransmit TV programming to Alaska? Feeds and such? I know the local stations were videotaping network and local programming and sent the tapes immediately by plane to various cable systems in SE AK in the 1970s. At least in Sitka, the CANCOM Detroit stations were carried in the '80s (live, 4-7PM AKT primetime), later Denver, and later still, Seattle/Anchorage.
 
crainbebo said:
If McGrath had/has an ARCS translator on TV, is this the tower that they used? If you don't know, ARCS is the Alaska Rural Communications Service, what used to be the Alaska Satellite TV Project, and they take selected programming from several networks + PBS and syndication, originated from Anchorage.

Did the Earth Station on Vashon retransmit TV programming to Alaska? Feeds and such? I know the local stations were videotaping network and local programming and sent the tapes immediately by plane to various cable systems in SE AK in the 1970s. At least in Sitka, the CANCOM Detroit stations were carried in the '80s (live, 4-7PM AKT primetime), later Denver, and later still, Seattle/Anchorage.
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This tower is more then a mile outside town.

We have ARCS TV, 59 watts digital on channel 9, uses a yagi on a short tower thats at "the cap'n snow center" which houses our fire truck, ambulance, cvity building, state trooper and public washroom/laundry facilities.

The ARCS TV satellite dish is the one thats partially in the shot of the picture on the right.


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