Battle Mountain FAA Radar Site

 (1963-Active) - A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Long Range Radar (LRR) site commissioned in 1963 on Mount Lewis in Lander County, Nevada. Named for the nearby town of Battle Mountain. 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 a SAGE System ID of Z-214 and an FAA ID of ZBAM. Active FAA Radar Site.

History
This FAA radar site was commissioned in the spring of 1963 on Mount Lewis, Nevada, furnishing radar track data to the FAA ARTCC's and to USAF Direction Centers. The initial FAA ARSR-2 search radar remained in operation until it was modified to become a Common Air Route Surveillance Radar (CARSR) with a 7172 antenna circa 2012.

By 1990 the site was equipped with a Common Digitizer CD-2A. The Battle Mountain CD-2A was scheduled to receive an upgrade kit to implement three level weather data processing in April 1992.

CARSR Radar
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Current Status
Active FAA facility on Mount Lewis in Lander County, Nevada.

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

Sources:
 * Battle Mountain Area Important to Aviation, Reno Gazette-Journal (Reno, Nevada), 29 Jan 1966, Page 57
 * , page 135.

Links:
 * Radomes - Battle Mountain FAA Radar Site
 * Wikipedia - Joint Surveillance System