Rockville FAA Radar Site

 (1978-Active) - A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Beacon Only Site (BOS) first established in 1978 near Rockville, Sherman County, Nebraska. The site is used to identify and track military and civilian aircraft movements within a 200-mile radius and to provide air-ground radio communication with those aircraft. Assigned an FAA ID of ZQJM. Active FAA Radar Site.

History
This site became an FAA radar site in 1978, furnishing radar track data to the FAA ARTCC's and to USAF Direction Centers. The initial FAA ATCBI-5 beacon radar remained in operation until it was replaced by a Mode S Beacon System in October 1995.

The radar site data is available to the USAF/NORAD Battle Control System-Fixed (BCS-F) operations centers (EADS & WADS) as well as the FAA Minneapolis ARTCC (ZMP) and adjacent ARTCCs.

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Current Status
Active FAA facility near Rockville in Sherman County, Nebraska.Note: this site is missing from the 2016 list of legacy FAA radar site and may no longer be active.

{| See Also:
 * Minneapolis ARTCC
 * JSS System
 * FAA Air Route Traffic Control Centers
 * US Radar Sets

Sources:
 * Air radar station set up, Lincoln Journal Star (Lincoln, Nebraska), 20 Jan 1978, Page 16.

Links:
 * Wikipedia - Joint Surveillance System