List of Utah transmitter sites

[theaton]

With so many Utah transmitters concentrated on mountaintops, often with many services represented, a couple years ago I began making a list from the various sources I had available. Often I used a topographic map program to track down the exact (marked or presumed) location, and I added the latitude and longitude. I added a few more sites from the government documents we recently found online (some even had latitudes and longitudes listed). I decided to post my spreadsheet of locations for others' benefit and to see if anyone can fill in missing or questionable information or add missing sites. I placed the Excel spreadsheet on my university Web site at http://www.usd.edu/esci/Utah_Sites.xls. I have included the mountain range, closest town, county (including corner or side of county), nearby counties, elevation, and latitude and longitude in both d.d and d/m/s formats. I look forward to getting additions or corrections you have to offer. It's a work in progress.

Let me know if you have any trouble downloading the spreadsheet.

-Tim

 

[wbloss]

peaks

Tim - In the area column you identify Cache on line 67 as "C" (I assume Central?) and 96 Rich Co as NW. Neither seem right to me. Mebbe N for North or NC for North central? and NE for Rich co?
Good stufff - now we need someone to convert to a KML for Googe Maps - I have seen the UCAN one

Wally

WB0BAV

 

[enosjones]

The list you have is great. The line that has Ferron on it is from Emery County. I believe you must have been just entering peaks in but in case not were you planning on putting the known frequencies in columns according to mountain top/peak? For this area I can help with that not sure about the other ones though.

 

[theaton]

Transmitter locations

Tim - In the area column you identify Cache on line 67 as "C" (I assume Central?) and 96 Rich Co as NW. Neither seem right to me. Mebbe N for North or NC for North central? and NE for Rich co?
Good stufff - now we need someone to convert to a KML for Googe Maps - I have seen the UCAN one.

Thanks Wally. Those general areas are within the county, not the state. Logan Peak is in the middle of Cache County. Red Spur is on the west edge of Rich County bordering Cache County. Some of these are a bit arbitrary.

Does anyone know what datum the FCC uses when it lists latitude and longitude? I'm not sure all my locations are consistent with respect to datum, which can make locations a mile or so off.

-Tim

 

[theaton]

The list you have is great. The line that has Ferron on it is from Emery County. I believe you must have been just entering peaks in but in case not were you planning on putting the known frequencies in columns according to mountain top/peak? For this area I can help with that not sure about the other ones though.

Hi Enos. I think you mean Flagstaff Peak, which is the location of a Manti La-Sal forest repeater. The site is just within Sanpete County, but Ferron is the closest town. That was an odd case. It's nice to know the nearest town, but sometimes there isn't one close by.

A list of users at each peak would be nice, but the list would be long for some. In the DB I've often listed the peaks that repeaters are on, especially for the federal repeaters (NPS, FS, BLM). This spreadsheet provides the detailed location info. I think the solution would be to add more peak names to the DB where appropriate.

-Tim