2022-04-26, 03:28 PM
Back in 2019 or 2020, the NPS green-lighted the proposed expansion of the Rogers Peak comm site:
"The National Park Service has selected Alternative 2: Proposed Action as the alternative for implementation because it best meets the purpose of, and need for, action without causing significant impacts on Park resources. Under the selected alternative, new infrastructure will be constructed on Rogers Peak and some infrastructure will be removed."
Click here
I haven't been out there for awhile. Has anyone observed any work going on up there? It should be a major project. Among other things, there will be a big new radome, plus at least one new tower, up to 99 feet tall (!), which will host an AT&T wireless site.
While looking for updates on that, I found this document:
Document here
That document also includes some tid-bits I didn't know about, or simply forgot, in particular these two:
"The park approved the future installation of a 20-foot booster facility...near the Grapevine Ranger Station." (This would be for wireless phone coverage.)
"Commnet may submit a request for a right-of-way permit to build a 30-foot tower on Chloride Cliff... The tower would support a
microwave relay that would be capable of backhauling data to other Commnet-operated towers within the park." (Commnet owns the cell sites in Furnace Creek and Stovepipe Wells.)
"The National Park Service has selected Alternative 2: Proposed Action as the alternative for implementation because it best meets the purpose of, and need for, action without causing significant impacts on Park resources. Under the selected alternative, new infrastructure will be constructed on Rogers Peak and some infrastructure will be removed."
Click here
I haven't been out there for awhile. Has anyone observed any work going on up there? It should be a major project. Among other things, there will be a big new radome, plus at least one new tower, up to 99 feet tall (!), which will host an AT&T wireless site.
While looking for updates on that, I found this document:
Document here
That document also includes some tid-bits I didn't know about, or simply forgot, in particular these two:
"The park approved the future installation of a 20-foot booster facility...near the Grapevine Ranger Station." (This would be for wireless phone coverage.)
"Commnet may submit a request for a right-of-way permit to build a 30-foot tower on Chloride Cliff... The tower would support a
microwave relay that would be capable of backhauling data to other Commnet-operated towers within the park." (Commnet owns the cell sites in Furnace Creek and Stovepipe Wells.)