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Common Language Location Identifier (CLLI): CHVYNYQ0010
Geolocation (GL) code: NY2280
Address: off Easthill Road, Cherry Valley, NY
Latitude: N42-47-06 (42.78499)
Longitude: W74-41-56 (-74.69889)
Elevation: 2240 ft. (683 M)
Location: 3 mi. ESE of Cherry Valley, Otsego County, NY
Active AT&T Callsigns: none
Canceled AT&T Callsigns: KEA51
Cherry Valley consists of a concrete tower, square in plan, with a short steel tower on its roof. AT&T used concrete towers in the early years of its microwave network, before adopting the steel-lattice type of tower.
Cherry Valley was a microwave radio junction station. A January 1970 map shows the station having routes going northeast to Rotterdam, NY, southwest to New Berlin, NY and northwest to Deerfield, NY.
When AT&T converted its transmission network to fiber optics, Cherry Valley was no longer needed and was shut down. AT&T sold the station to American Tower Corporation, which offers space on the tower for lease to cellular telephone companies and other wireless communications providers. American Tower has produced a site brochure describing the facility.
Thanks to Terry Michaels for contributing the CLLI and GL code data.
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Created on August 11, 2003 at 22:53 by Albert LaFrance