Sweat Mountain

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Sweat Mountain is a low mountain located in far northeastern Cobb County, Georgia, in the northern suburbs of Atlanta. The exact USGS location of its summit is 34°4′1″N, 84°27′20″W, and has an elevation of 1688 feet or 514.5 meters above mean sea level, making it the second-highest in the Atlanta metro area. The Mountain View area is named for the view of this mountain, including the CCPLS Mountain View library, the Chattahoochee Tech Mountain View campus, and the CCPS Mountain View Elementary School.

This height has made the mountain very attractive for radio, having several transmitters, radio towers, and antennas, for pagers, cellphones, and broadcasting. The fact that Stone Mountain and Kennesaw Mountain are both protected as parks has led to a proliferation of technology at the top, much to the annoyance of neighboring residents on the mountain. At the same time, both the towers and the houses detract from the formerly-forested mountain for everyone within the mountain's view.

Sweat Mountain is also a part of the ridge that divides the Chattahoochee River basin to the south and southeast, from the Lake Allatoona basin to the north and northwest.

In early April 2006, the south side of the mountain was grazed by an F1 tornado, causing relatively minor damage to some homes. The storm moved due east from Noonday to Alpharetta, doing much more serious damage in several other places.

1 Broadcasters
- 1.1 Radio
- 1.2 Television
2 Amateur repeaters
3 External links

[edit] Broadcasters

The following broadcast stations are all within 300 meters of the summit, and are listed with callsign, frequency or channel, community of license, and licensee/owner.

[edit] Radio

WWVA-FM 105.7, Canton, Clear Channel Communications
W265BD 100.9, Woodstock, Immanuel Broadcasting Network
W229AG 93.7, Sandy Plains, Calvary Chapel of Twin Falls

There are also applications (potentially moot) for broadcast translators by Calvary Chapel on 94.5 and 103.7 to serve Woodstock. Another application for a translator on 102.1 by Community Public Radio to serve "Sweat Mountain" (which is not a recognized community) is also listed by the FCC.

[edit] Television

WATC TV 57 (DTV 41), Atlanta, Community Television
WSKC-CA 22, Atlanta, KMLP TV of Atlanta
W55BM 55 (DTV 49 application), Marietta, Trinity Broadcasting Network

[edit] Amateur repeaters

[edit] Radio

N4CLA 145.470 (-0.6MHz, 100Hz), sponsored by the North Fulton Amateur Radio League
N4CLA 444.475 (+5.0MHz, 100Hz), sponsored by the North Fulton Amateur Radio League
W4BTI 146.880 (-0.6MHz, 100Hz), sponsored by the Kennehoochee Amateur Radio Club
K4RFL 224.960 (-, 100Hz) Georgia International RA
K4RFL 442.875 (+5.0MHz, 100Hz) Georgia International RA
N4NEQ 146.775 (-0.6MHz, 151.4Hz) Big Shanty Repeater Group

[edit] Television

N4NEQ 427.250MHz VSB video out, 1.253GHz FM video in, NTSC amateur television

Note that the ATV output is equivalent to cable TV channel 58, thus it can be received on a cable ready tuner with an attached antenna. Audio output is standard FM on 431.75. Both N4NEQ repeaters carry NASA TV (audio normally simulcast on 146.775) live during Space Shuttle missions.

[edit] Digital Data Packet Radio

N4NEQ 144.390 (N4NEQ-2 APRS digipeater) Big Shanty Repeater Group
KD4NC/R 146.73 (-0.6MHz) (under maintenance, AX.25 repeater, NOT a digipeater) Big Shanty Repeater Group