Sixty and seventy years ago, AT&T built thousands of Long Line towers as part of its transcontinental microwave communications network. It’s been decades since they were used for their original purpose, but one still stands near the northern Indiana community of Culver.
The tower in Culver seems to have been built in 19701. Rising 267 feet2, it relayed a signal twenty-nine miles northwest from Kouts to another tower twenty-four miles northeast in Etna Green3. Today, the tower still retains four JS015676 horn antennae and a pair of SHX10A’s.
After the Long Lines program ended, a successor to AT&T sold the tower in 2000. Today, it’s operated by Aqua Land Communications4.
Sources Cited
1 Parcel 75-11-12-300-019.000-008 (2024). Office of the Assessor. Starke County [Knox]. Web. Retrieved March 25, 2024.
2 Long Lines Map and Information (n.d.). Web. Map. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
3 Transmitter Characteristics (n.d.). Antennasearch. Web. Retrieved February 24, 2024.
4 (See footnote 2).
