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Windsor, MO, AT&T Long Lines site

Coordinates: 38°35'43.00" N, 93°31'27.00" W (38.59528 N, 93.52417 W)

Antenna Structure Registration (ASR): 1005508

Height (overall): 82.6 meters (271 feet)

Current owner: State of Missouri

Currently in use? MOSWIN repeater

Horn antennas? No

Original hops: 1966 — Holden (NW), Cole Camp (SE), Deepwater (SW, planned)

Constructed in the early-mid 1960s along AT&T Long Lines' Kansas City-Halifax-Oakdale, Illinois, microwave route was an unmanned repeater approximately five miles north of Windsor on Route WW. The site is in the extreme southeastern corner of Johnson County, Missouri, about 10 miles southeast of Whiteman Air Force Base.

As of the 1966 route map, the Windsor site had two active microwave hops: Northwest to Holden, and southeast to Cole Camp. A third hop to Deepwater was planned to be the eastern-most hop along a telephone/television route under construction that extended southwest to Walker before continuing through Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado.

Supporting the hops was a 271-foot tower. At its base was the typical solid concrete "semi-hardened" base station building found at most sites along the Kansas City-Halifax-Oakdale, Illinois, route.

After microwave relay became replaced by fiber optics and satellite communications, the Windsor site was owned by McCullough Comsites — who leases tower space to wireless communications companies. (Unfortunately the Windsor page, as with many other site pages, were not archived by the Wayback Machine.) The State of Missouri purchased many of McCullough's former tower sites to use for its Missouri Statewide Interoperability Network (MOSWIN) public safety radio network, and Windsor was one of them. Randy Vanscoy, a MOSWIN technician active on the AT&T Long Lines Facebook Group, has posted several photos of inside Windsor over the years to the group.

Photos: May 8, 2021

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Windsor site

View of the site from the east along Route WW.

Garage

A four-bay garage northeast of the main base station building.

Base station building

Base station building.

Sprint cable box

A Sprint cable box/marker seen near the entrance to the Windsor site. Sprint, formerly United Telephone, was an independent telephone company/ILEC that had a big presence in Kansas (where it started and had its headquarters before being purchased by T-Mobile) and western Missouri.

Gate

Site gate with Antenna Structure Registration identification number.

Windsor site from distance

A photo taken about 1,900 feet northwest of the site on Route WW shows its true scale.

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