- Coordinates: 41º11’46.0″ N, 90º25’05.0″ W (41.19611 N, 90.41806 W)
- County: Henry
- AT&T call sign: KSH97
- Antenna Structure Registration number: 1049518
- Height (overall): 93.3 meters (306.1 feet)
- Current owner: Tower Sites Inc.
- Current use: Unknown
- Horn antennas? Yes (KS-15676 x4, cornucopia x2)
- Original paths: 1960 — Joy, Kewanee
Located approximately a mile southeast of New Windsor, Illinois, on East 90th Street is a former AT&T Long Lines repeater site. This site had two hops — Joy (west) and Kewanee (east) — along a route spanning from La Porte, Indiana, to Red Oak Junction, Iowa. The route originally handled telephone traffic only, but was later expanded to also handle television traffic.
New Windsor has a 306-foot, self-supported lattice tower with four KS-15676 horn-reflector antennas and two “cornucopia” horn-reflector antennas. The equipment shelter is a fairly common design in north-central Illinois. According to Terry Michaels (of Tower Sites Inc., the owner,) the white block building was the first part of the site when it was still a TD-2 telephone-only route. A two-floor concrete addition was added when the sites were upgraded with TH-1 radios that more than doubled message capacity. During this time, television was also added to the route. The second floor, accessible from a ladder on the outside, contained an air handling unit for the station’s air conditioning system.
The current use of the New Windsor tower is unknown. The site is owned by Tower Sites Inc.
The site is located about a mile southeast of New Windsor on East 90th Street.
Photos: May 9, 2025
