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 ====== Corral Bluffs GWEN Site ====== ====== Corral Bluffs GWEN Site ======
  
-Corral Bluff is a communications site built specifically to deliver hardened communications between the [[facilities/military/cheyenne_mountain_complex]] and other nearby military sites. It seems to have hosted both a [[GWEN]] node and AT&T hardened microwave equipment.+Corral Bluff is a communications site built specifically to deliver hardened communications between the [[facilities/military/cheyenne_mountain_complex]] and other nearby military sites. It seems to have hosted both a [[..:microwave:gwen]] node and AT&T hardened microwave equipment.
  
 Corral Bluffs was built in 1994, or at least that is the year that AT&T installed microwave equipment. It is not clear to me if AT&T built the entire site, but I think it's far more likely the site was built by Contel (the general contractor for GWEN) and that AT&T only furnished microwave communications equipment. GWEN was under construction in 1994, so this is also compatible with the assumption that Corral Bluffs was a GWEN site from the beginning. GWEN normally relied on UHF radio to "uplink" messages to the low-frequency GWEN nodes, and UHF was known to be unreliable in a "HEMP" (high altitude EMP) or post-war environment, so it makes sense that CMC would have been equipped with a specially hardened uplink to GWEN. Corral Bluffs was built in 1994, or at least that is the year that AT&T installed microwave equipment. It is not clear to me if AT&T built the entire site, but I think it's far more likely the site was built by Contel (the general contractor for GWEN) and that AT&T only furnished microwave communications equipment. GWEN was under construction in 1994, so this is also compatible with the assumption that Corral Bluffs was a GWEN site from the beginning. GWEN normally relied on UHF radio to "uplink" messages to the low-frequency GWEN nodes, and UHF was known to be unreliable in a "HEMP" (high altitude EMP) or post-war environment, so it makes sense that CMC would have been equipped with a specially hardened uplink to GWEN.