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Common Language Location Identifier (CLLI): MINLIAQ0010
Geolocation (GL) code: IA2120
Address: south of county highway H12, about 0.8 mi. west of CR L55
Latitude: N41-08-43 (41.14528)
Longitude: W95-39-14 (-95.65389)
Elevation: 1217 ft. (371 M)
Location: unknown
Active AT&T Callsigns: unknown
Canceled AT&T Callsigns: KAR70
Mineola's physical facilities consist of a 213 ft. (65 M) steel lattice tower and an equipment building.
A 1966 route map shows that Mineola linked Omaha, Nebraska to the northwest and Red Oak Junction, Iowa to the southeast. The route carried both telephone and television service. Mineola was likely an auxiliary (relay) station, without terminal equipment.
As AT&T continued converting its long-distance network to fiber optics in the 1990s, Mineola became obsolete and was "turned down". AT&T sold the station to American Tower Corporation, which in turn sold it to the present owner, American Relay Company.
Decades after its construction, Mineola continues to serve as a microwave relay station, though in a network radically different from the Bell System's. Today, the station carries high-speed digital traffic as part of American Relay's backbone network, helping deliver fixed-wireless broadband communication services to customers in the central U.S.
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Updated on November 20, 2002 at 01:02 by Albert LaFrance