2-Hop Digital Microwave Network,
Pacific Missile Range Facility, Hawaii

High-capacity microwave network
Images from Google Earth
The Pacific Missile Range Facility is the largest multi-environment (air, space, surface, and undersea) instrumented test range. As part of a series of facility upgrades, new microwave data links capable of high capacity data traffic were installed to link the main site with two tracking and telemetry sites.   The Howland Company surveyed the proposed tower locations and prepared path profile and propagation analyses for the new point-to-point microwave network.
     

More about the Pacific Missile Range Facility:

     
View from the Makaha Ridge site toward the main PMRF facility   View from the Kokee site, facing the main PMRF site
         
The view from the Makaha Ridge tracking and telemetry site to the main PMRF facilities on the beach below--an 8.2 mile path running over the ocean and alongside the cliffs. The Kokee site, looking toward the main PMRF site--this path is 9.2 miles, and accomodates a change in elevation of 3700 feet.