SANDY

(Photo American Tower Corp)

Sandy:

Type: Repeater

Location: Northeast end of Alford Mountain. About 30 miles northeast of Barstow. Remote

Paths: Turquoise and Cline Springs

Notes:

SAN MARCOS

(Photo American Tower Corp)

Type: Repeater

Location: east end of the Merriam Mountains about 3 miles north of San Marcos.

Paths: Julian, Black Mountain and San Clemente

Notes: 

SANTIAGO PEAK

(Photo American Tower Corp)

Santiago Peak

Type: Repeater

Location: Atop Santiago Peak in the Santa Ana Mountains.  About 15 miles south of Corona.  Remote

Paths: San Bernardino, Box Springs, Boucher Hill, Anaheim and Los Angeles 03 Madison

SHEEP HOLE

(Photo American Tower Corp)

Sheep Hole

Type: Repeater

Location: At Sheep Hole Pass near the north end of the Sheep Hole Mountains. About 20 miles northeast of Twentynine Palms. Very Remote

Paths: Granite Pass and Belle

SHIRLEY PEAK

(Photo American Tower Corp)

Shirley Peak

Type: Repeater

Location: Atop Shirley Peak in the Green Horn Mountains. About 40 miles east of Delano. Very Remote

Paths: Bird Springs and Mt. Adelaide

Notes: Part of the northern Mojave Desert route feeding into the southern Central Valley area.  Another very high site at 6980 feet and a tower height at 218 feet.

STRAWBERRY PEAK

Type: Switched/Junction

Location: Atop Strawberry Peak, about 2 miles west of Rimforest and about 15 miles north of San Bernardino.

Paths:Cline Springs, Keller Peak, San Bernardino, Corona, Padua Hills, Phelan and Table Mountain.

TABLE MOUNTAIN

(Photo American Tower Corp)

Type: Repeater

Location: Adjacent to Table Mountain in the San Gabriel Mountains. About 3 miles north of Wrightwood. Remote

Paths: Strawberry Peak and Hauser Mountain.

TEHACHAPI MOUNTAIN

(Photo American Tower Corp)

Type: Repeater

Location: Atop Cottonwood Peak in Rancho Castaic about 50 miles north of Los Angeles.

Paths: Oat Mountain, Whitaker Peak and Buena Vista.

Notes:

SLATE

(Photo American Tower Corp)

Slate

Type: Repeater

Location: Slate Range Mountains about 7 miles southwest of Trona. Remote

Paths: Owlshead and El Paso Mountain.

Notes:

TOPANGA RIDGE

(Photo McCullough Comsites)

Type: Repeater

Location: Northeast of Saddle Peak in the Santa Monica Mountains. About 5 miles southwest of Topanga. Remote

Paths: Los Angeles 09 (Richmond), Los Angeles 07 (Airport) and Hall Canyon

Notes: A rather recent site built after 1979 to channel traffic from Los Angeles west to the "coastal" microwave route through Hall Canyon.  A interesting design includes stylized concrete tower and trapezoidal shaped equipment building.  Probably designed as to minimize impacts to the surrounding area.  Unfortunately entire site (including horns) has been 'tagged" by graffiti artists

TURQUOISE

(Photo Daryl Gibson)

Type: Junction/Switched 

Location: Atop Turquoise Mountain, 15 miles north of Baker. Remote

Paths: Potosi Mountain (Nevada), Mountain Pass, Kelso, Sandy and Ibex

Notes: Turquoise was a major junction point for both commercial and military traffic transitioning east-west along the Mojave Desert corridor.  Military AUTOVON site and had a semi-hardened structure to protect from nuclear attacks.  Antennas on top were known as GEP or Ground Entry Point antennas and were used with the Echo-Fox secure military comm system to communicate with Air Force One.

WARNER SPRINGS

Type: Repeater

Location: Just west of the Chihuahua Valley and about 8 miles north of Warner Springs.  Remote

Paths: Julian and Wildomar

Notes: A "typical" microwave repeater site.

For more Warner Springs pictures 

WARNER SPRINGS

WHITAKER PEAK

(Photo American Tower Corp)

Type: Repeater

Location: Atop Whitaker Peak in the Tehachapi Mountains. About 10 miles northwest of Castaic.

Paths: Newhall and Tehachapi Mountian

Notes: 

WILDOMAR

(Photo American Tower Corp)

Type: Repeater

Location: Just north of Bundy Canyon in the Sedco Hills. About 3 miles east of Wildomar.

Paths: Sage, Warner Springs and Corona.

Notes:

Yuma

Type: Junction/Switched

Location:

Paths: Glamis

Notes: Although not part of the California microwave system, Yuma is located about a mile east of the California border and is an end office which connects to a California site.