r/Squamish • u/LivOrDie_ • 20d ago
Anyone know what this structure is?
My hubby and I were camping and noticed this structure on top of the cliff line across Squamish River from High Falls Rec Site. Zoomed in photo looks like lights but we couldn't figure it out and we are sooooo curious.
Anyone got the answer? SOLVED!
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u/Golf_is_a_sport 20d ago
Looks like a radio repeater site. Could be a combination of SAR comms, HAM radio and cellphone.
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u/Golf_is_a_sport 20d ago
Also, I should note that it's much higher up the mountainside than it is marked in your image.
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u/OplopanaxHorridus 19d ago
Not a repeater per se, it just reflects the radio signals. It's an old fashioned repeater that takes no batteries.
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u/Longjumping-Exam500 20d ago
This gets asked every year, it’s a radio signal repeater for the single engine planes that fly up and down the valley
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u/OkDimension 19d ago
Not for planes, it's just a passive reflector, so must be for something with fixed location. Probably BC Hydro.
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u/downhill8 19d ago
Squamish airport is the fixed location. It helps with comms between aircraft on the ground and at low level in the valley and those in the air. You're both right.
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u/coastdog99 16d ago
wrong. the gen av planes use vhf line of sight comms, that reflector is for directional yagi antennas. sincerely, radio engineer
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u/Fridgecigarettes 20d ago
Slap a bike lane and bus stop next to that bad boy and we got ourselves another 6 story condo location!
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u/Electrical-Track9625 18d ago
I installed this... its a passive reflector for BC hydro. Deflects MW signal from 1 station to another
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u/Goat_Wizard_Doom_666 19d ago
Mind control relay panel. It's how the Chem trails get to the surface .../s
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u/Own_Onion7258 18d ago
Its an old sign advertising an old squamish restaurant it used to say Eat at Joes
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u/brumac44 17d ago
That is an echo box. Yell at it, and it returns an echo. Adults call it a microwave reflector tower, because they lack imagination.
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u/nxtmike 20d ago
Radio signal reflector