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--- facilities:radio:unknown_mojave [2025-04-12 21:19] – J. B. Crawford
+++ facilities:radio:unknown_mojave [2026-05-07 22:39] (current) – J. B. Crawford
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-====== Unknown Mojave Radio Repeater ======
+====== Questar Mojave Radio Repeater ======
-This appears to be a UHF point-to-point repeater, near Kelbaker road. it is mostly interesting because of its apparent 1980s vintage and early PV installation. I have not been able to learn anything so far about its history or purpose, but it appears to be disused and has no signage.
+This appears to be a UHF point-to-point repeater, near Kelbaker road. it is mostly interesting because of its apparent 1980s vintage and early PV installation. This repeater seems to have originally been built by the Questar Pipeline Company, presumably in connection to their gas pipeline that roughly parallels I-40. The repeater connected a compressor station near Kingman, AZ, and an apparently disused station west of Kingman, to another disused station near Danby. These licenses expired in 2012, perhaps reflecting the intermediary facilities having become obsolete.
-#@Location_HTML~34.76913,-115.638911~@#
+License WHC352 - Expired 2012. Covered this site for TX, 2GHz links to WHC351 (site on pipeline near "Skeleton Pass," 34°33'30.9"N 115°20'55.9"W) and WHC353 (mountaintop radio site near Sitgreaves pass, 35°02'08.0"N 114°22'12.8"W). The mountaintop site has direct paths to several other pipeline stations. From these observations we can put together the history of this site: the Sitgreaves Pass site must be a communications hub for Questar, and most of their pipeline stations (compressors, regulators, etc) connected to that site via microwave. The site near Skeleton Pass specifically does not have line of sight to Sitgreaves Pass, due to a couple of different mountain ridges in between. This repeater station is far enough north to reach "around" the mountain ranges, and its location fairly high on the valley side means that it has a line of sight "slot" to the Skeleton Pass station. In other words, they had to add it to make the connection work.
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