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There is one in Vancouver BC. I always wondered what is is: https://goo.gl/maps/RKVvfiDApVxCWsnj7


The Telus CO downtown at Robson and Seymour used to have a large tower on the roof with 6GHz horns, linked to that site, and towards the site on Bowen Island which still has horns. Bowen Island was a link to the sunshine coast, across to Nanaimo, and many other places.

There is also a big site out in the fraser valley on a hilltop that was part of the long lines network with shots going east towards Hope (trans canada microwave) and down into Whatco County.


Interesting! Thank you for the information. Does the trans Canada microwave go along the coquilhalla highway? I notice that there are point to point links along the side of the highway.

Were the microwave links to Nanaimo and the Sunshine Coast replaced by fiber?


There's submarine fiber to Vancouver island now, in a diverse ring, so yes.

Still is some microwave operational on sunshine coast but not as a primary thing.

Big parts of trans Canada microwave have now been dismantled. There was a mountain top site slightly NE of Hope that could only be reached by its own cable car. And lots of other mountain top sites east of it going all the way to Lethbridge.




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