I’ve been working on a project to add a signal north of Torrington for about 2 years now.  This signal is going to serve a large portion of the state where we currently have no coverage at all.  Unfortunately the plans have been modified and stalled for numerous reasons several times now.  Funding was also a challenge… FINALLY we were able to secure funding earlier this year.  However, the project MUST be complete by the end of May 2011.  Only one problem…We were not able to locate at the site the permit was originally issued for.  This means building a completely new site adjacent to the original one.  After two months of what seemed like endless additional hurdles I was FINALLY able to get the first tangible improvement to the site completed…A phone line!  It doesn’t seem like much but at least it’s something…

The site is about 25 miles north of Torrington…
Our new tower site will be directly behind where my Jeep is parked.

This is the tower site directly across the road where our new signal was originally supposed to be constructed.  We’re going to have a taller tower than this so it ended up working out for the better.

There was already existing phone service to the other tower site so we just needed to have a line installed…

Our new phone line…Ready to go!  Of course it will need to be moved across the road once our site is actually constucted…