The U.S. Forest Service installed a new radio repeater station this summer on Elbow Mountain, up the Stikine River, close to the Canadian border, part of a program to replace older mountaintop units with new stations. The Elbow Mountain unit, at about 4,200 feet, is important for radio coverage of the river area.
They may be out of sight to the general public but they are never out of mind for the U.S. Forest Service.
The agency maintains 35 mountaintop repeater towers within the Tongass National Forest to provide radio coverage for their field crews and first responders.
A contractor is installing new repeater stations at five sites this summer in the Wrangell and Petersburg ranger districts, part of an ongoing effort to switch out older units with newer models.
Of particular importance to Wrangell, a new repeater has been installed atop Manzanita Peak on the southern end of Mitkof Island, said Brando...
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