Camping Canadian: Globalstar feeder-link earth station

March 01, 2014

Globalstar feeder-link earth station - Smiths Falls

Globalstar provides satellite based communication to phones and devices through a constellation of 48 sattelites in a low earth orbit, and 24 ground stations (that they call feeder-link earth stations). You know SPOT? Signals from SPOT are transmitted using the Globalstar constellation.

You can find this earth station at 44.91638, -76.01671; at the moment the Google Satellite imagery and Bing imagery is pretty bad, so I used Here Maps for an areal shot below.

There is a second Canadian feeder-link station in High River, Alberta; but I haven't visited yet.

Globalstar Feeder-link Earth Station - Smiths Falls

Globalstar Feeder-link Earth Station - Smiths Falls
Credit: Here Maps

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What's all this about anyway?

My intent by making this blog is to provide information for others who are interested in visiting and exploring the sites of former Cold War military facilities in Canada, and their surroundings.

My personal goal is to visit (and camp when possible) at all of the locations where the Pinetree Line stations were across Canada, and along the way visit the microwave repeaters, troposcatter repeaters, airstrips, and other supporting facilities. As a lot of these places are far from civilization, and often on the top of local hills or mountains, I hope to see the relatively the same view the men and women of the USAF and RCAF saw in from the 1950s to the 1980s.

If you would rather reach me directly than comment on an individual blog post, email me at steffan.watkins@gmail.com