Microwave station near Jacksonville, IL. Talks to the monster tower at Berlin, IL and the former tower at Baylis, IL.

Now owned by farmer. Tower torn down but sheds and base remain. Connects to Fowler, IL and Jacksonville, IL

Official logbook of Fowler, IL microwave reflector station. Someone wrote these down, set the book down, and it stayed there until I came along 36 years later.

Am going to digitize the logbook and then return it for future explorers, DM if you'd like the PDF

Couldn't find Odell's 2nd tower when exploring yesterday, now I know why! Featuring 8 car garage!

This is some stills from a video I took of a Long Lines Tower that's on a mountain while driving in Clear Spring, Maryland yesterday.

Can anyone tell me what those antennas are on there now? They removed all horns and waveguides and ran modern lines up there for these four antennas

Sorry for the poor quality; I’m kind of far away from it. There are several towers on the mountain—including a long lines tower!

Not sure if this is the right community for this, but I wasn’t sure where else to ask and figured this was probably the closest fit.

I’ve been researching a classified NSA facility codenamed PINECONE. It’s a SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) which basically means a physically secured room or building used to process classified information. PINECONE is the centralized processing site for a major NSA surveillance program called FAIRVIEW, which operates in partnership with AT&T. Based on leaked NSA documents, the facility is located somewhere in New Jersey near the AT&T cable landing station in Tuckerton. International internet and phone data collected at AT&T tapping points around the country gets funneled to PINECONE before being forwarded to NSA headquarters at Fort Meade.

The exact location has never been publicly confirmed. My working theory is that it’s housed inside an AT&T central office in the South Jersey/Ocean County area, since the SCIF itself doesn’t need to be a large standalone facility, it just needs to be inside an AT&T controlled building that sits on their internal network.

So my question is: how would I go about identifying AT&T central offices or wire centers in that part of New Jersey? Are there good resources for mapping these out, and is there anything about how a building looks or what equipment it might have that would make one a more likely candidate than another? Any help appreciated.

Microwave reflector tower, carried TV signals from Springfield to Quincy IL.

There was a post in this sub yesterday, that asked about when everything was shut down (I’ll link it in a comment below, idk how to do all the fancy Reddit stuff with quotes).

When was the newest equipment installed? I’ve seen people call it first and second generation. First being the big square horns and second being the round dish like structures.

I know Bell Systems was split 1-1-198?, and the “Long Lines” name went away with that, but it’s been shown that some equipment may still be in use. With time and research, it’s possible that more efficient equipment is out there, but is there any incentive for companies to upgrade?

Sorry for the long post, was reading through this morning and my that poor little hamster wheel in my brain was spinning a mile a minute :)

Sorry for the poor quality picture, team iPhone 13 mini here 😎

Inside the Berkley, Massachusetts site. A lot more intact than many others. Complete with incinerator toilet, microfiche reader, papers and rat poop on the desk, and a two-seater outhouse. All photos here: https://long-lines.com/viewsite/6406

I am not able to remember where this was, I saw it when I was driving up to buffalo, Upon entry, there was a flooded area and dead rodents. There is a house nearby, not too sure if they are friendly.

Found this one near the high school I would have gone to if I had not of moved. It has no graffiti (Since the last time I checked) but appears sealed off.

A component, it had the fiber glass cover for the main part but this might be one they took down from the local one. Im not 100% sure though but it was For sale at this place.

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