Big Brother... The
ALLEGHENY POWER COMPANY
(formerly West Penn Power Co.)

This site is also on the Donahue Road between Latrobe and Greensburg, Pa. and has absolutely nothing to do with the Westmoreland County Radio System.  I am putting it here because I thought you might like to know what it does.

Formerly known as West Penn Power Company, they use to pay a horrible amount of money to the phone company to transfer billing information back and forth between their Latrobe office and their Greensburg office.  A friend of mine by the name of Tim told me that they built these towers to act as a relay station between the two buildings so that they could eliminate the phone company, saving them millions of dollars.  You can find the same funny looking radar antennas (gigahertz band) on each of their buildings.  The lower antennas are for receive, the upper are transmit.

This is a two way (duplex) data-transfer radio system.

( With all the money they saved by installing this radio system they were able
to raise our electric bill... isn't that they way they say it goes ? )

K3SAM -- he Blah-ger