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facilities:open_wire:tucumcari_j_repeater [2025-04-14 02:02] – J. B. Crawfordfacilities:open_wire:tucumcari_j_repeater [2025-04-14 02:06] (current) – J. B. Crawford
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 ====== Tucumcari J Repeater ====== ====== Tucumcari J Repeater ======
  
-Tucumcari is home to a former repeater on the Fourth Transcontinental Telephone Line, which runs from Albuquerque to Amarillo in this area. Some sections of original poles from the open wire line are standing to the west. According to route maps, there was also a K-carrier "branch" that paralleled the J-carrier, starting here and going East until about Adrian, Texas. I'm not sure why, perhaps for reliability given the windstorms this area is prone to. The K-carrier line required multiple repeaters within the single J-carrier span.+Tucumcari is home to a former repeater on the Fourth Transcontinental Telephone Line, which runs from Albuquerque to Amarillo in this area. Some sections of original poles from the open wire line are standing to the west. According to route maps, there was also a K-carrier "branch" that paralleled the J-carrier, starting here and going East until Amarillo, with a "junction" between the J and K carrier at Adrian, TX. I'm not sure why, perhaps for reliability given the windstorms this area is prone to. The K-carrier line required give repeaters within the single J-carrier span.
  
 ^ Built    | 1937 | ^ Built    | 1937 |
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 ^ Fate     | Reused, non-telecom | ^ Fate     | Reused, non-telecom |
  
-This telephone linen is discussed in BSTJ Vol. 18 (1939), "[[https://archive.org/details/bstj18-1-235/|Transcontinental Telephone Lines]]."+This telephone linen is discussed in BSTJ Vol. 18 (1939), "[[https://archive.org/details/bstj18-1-235/|Transcontinental Telephone Lines]]." It is also depicted on the {{:maps:1941_long_lines_map.pdf |1941 long lines map}}, which provides some detail on the parallel K-carrier route.
  
 {{wst>location|35.146219|-103.725451}} {{wst>location|35.146219|-103.725451}}
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 ^ Destination ^ Direction ^ Carrier | ^ Destination ^ Direction ^ Carrier |
-| Santa Rosa | West | J |+| Santa Rosa (JE) | West | J |
 | Amarillo | East | J, K | | Amarillo | East | J, K |