The White Alice Communications System (WACS, "White Alice" colloq.) ALaska Integrated Communications Enterprise. The AC&W site was located in the crater of an extinct volcano. Parabolic, billboard like, Reflectors 36th parallel.
The troposcatter system operated around 900 MHz, and utilized both space and frequency diversity. It used pairs of 60 ft (18
m) or 120 ft (37 m) parabolic, billboard like reflectors. 18mx37m=666m.
White Alice Site, Tropospheric Antennas, Troposcatter relay site at Buckingham County, VA. Tropo reflectors are hardened concrete with infrastructure several stories underground. Gamma ray detectors are mounted to outside structures. [VA-1] is one of five "Project Offices" built by AT&T in the 1960s in the mid-Atlantic region. The station is hardened against nuclear blasts, and features an earth-covered underground building with a "drive-through" entrance-decontamination area, a high-powered troposcatter radio communication s system with large concrete-backed reflectors, a helipad, blast-resistant terrestrial microwave "dish" antennas, and physical-security measures beyond those used at conventional AT&T facilities.
Detailed information about [VA-1]'s function has never been revealed. The facility housed a switching system for the
Department of Defense's AUTOVON telephone network, but that was probably not the station's primary mission. It's likely
that [VA-1] supported a highly-classified Continuity of Goverment program and may have served as an emergency relocation
site for senior executive-branch officials and/or military leadership. [VA-1] is still an active, secure AT&T facility, and unofficial visitors are not permitted.
The AN/FSQ-7 Combat Direction Central, referred to as the Q7 for short, was a computerized command and control system for Cold War ground-controlled interception used in the USAF Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense network.[4] The largest computer system ever built, each of the 24 installed machines[7]:9 weighed 250 tons.[8] The AN/FSQ-7 used a total of 60,000 vacuum tubes[8] (49,000 in the computers)[7]:9 and up to 3 megawatts of electricity, performing about 75,000 instructions per second for networking regional radars.
The AN/FSQ-32 SAGE Solid State Computer (AN/FSQ-7A before December 1958,[6]:27 colloq. "Q-32") was a planned military computer central for deployment to Super Combat Centers in nuclear bunkers and to some above-ground military installations. The Q-32 prototype was installed at System Development Corporation (SDC) headquarters in Santa Monica, California, and SDC developed the prototype software using JOVIAL. The mainframe occupied nearly an entire floor of a large office building (refrigeration units were also in the building).