- Coordinates: 39º58’42.0″ N, 91º20’20.0″ W (39.97833 N, 91.33889 W)
- County: Adams
- AT&T call sign: ????? (likely RBOC)
- Antenna Structure Registration number: n/a
- Height (overall): ??
- Current owner: American Tower Corporation
- Current use: Unknown
- Horn antennas? No
- Original paths: 1960 — Baylis (television only), Quincy (television only)
The Fowler site consisted of a small metal equipment shelter and a short tower supporting two passive reflector panels. According to the 1960 and 1966 maps, it handled television traffic going to Quincy from a site in Berlin, Illinois.
Old Western Electric equipment — including a J99262AA L-2 TL test set, J99296K meter unit, loudspeakers and another unidentified piece of equipment — was found lying in the grass south of the tower area.
The TL Test Set provides a clue at what equipment Fowler originally used. As a short-haul site operated by Illinois Bell Telephone Company, the site employed the 11 GHz, transistorized TL radios for its microwave links. (More information about the TL system, and its vacuum-tube-based cousin TJ, please see this page in the “Radio Relay: Communications by Microwave” booklet on Albert LaFrance’s website.)
