North Central SATX Tower - All Systems Down !

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Michael-SATX

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*** North Central SATX Tower - FCC ID# 1048153 located at 18679 NW Military Hwy (FM 1535) San Antonio, Texas
This Tower site serves many SMR / 2-way radio vendors. This tower structure is 149 ft tall and is at 338 ft elevation.
Located off NW Military Hwy outside Loop 1604 at Martin Marietta entrance before Eisenhower Park and Camp Bullis
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After the stormy weather cleared Thursday 6-6-19, I noticed several networks that are co-located at that site were now all down.
Does anyone know what was the actual cause that took this site off-line ? Was is lightning or wind damage ? or a power failure ?
Here is the CPS Energy Power Outage Map Link - CPSStaticMapV2_EXT2
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These are just the networks and systems I noticed that are currently down and OFF-LINE below:

S & P Communications / Bearcom (Central Texas NexEdge system ID 68) - Site # 4 North Central San Antonio
S & P Communications / Bearcom (South Texas NexEdge system ID 303) - Site # 1 North Central San Antonio
S & P Communications / Bearcom (North Central LTR Standard) - NW Military Hwy (No users anymore on system to be affected)
S & P Communications / Bearcom (Multi-County LTR Passport) - Site # 100 Military Hwy (NC-SA) (G.T. Sirizzotti Excavator affected)
Industrial Communications (North Central San Antonio LTR Standard) - NW Military Hwy (2 users left on system that will be affected)
Industrial Communications (5 Site Networked Bexar Co LTR Passport) - Site # 51 NW Military Hwy (NC-SA) (a dozen ish users affected)
Communication Professionals (North Central Bexar Co LTR Standard) - US 281 North (Beck Ready Mix & Beck Disposal if their still LTR?)
* Does anyone know other conventional systems or repeaters that are also down that I can't think of to list ?

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These are a few unaffected systems are on other towers nearby and are still UP and On-Line below:

San Antonio/Bexar County EDACS Pro-Voice (Public Safety) - Site # 15 Hill Country Tower (across the street from affected tower)
United States Air Force (Nationwide P25 System ID # 3D6) - Site # 5 Camp Bullis Tower (across the street from affected tower)
* No doubt if these system were affected by power failures they are on Backup Generators by design (and required by their users)
 

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OK, sometime Friday all systems went back on the air, most likely the CPS power was simply restored ?
I got home late Friday night and checked recordings for any tower repair information that might have
been verbally spoken about by any radio techs ... Nothing but a 2 sec mic blow test on NXDN 68 TG-1 ;)
 
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