Advanced techniques overcome severe environment encountered by mobile communications system

For many years, radio engineers have sought to overcome severe environmental conditions encountered in remote mountainous areas and have dreamed of a radio station which would require no access roads, no power lines, no battery charging, and after a quick, easy and economical installation, would provide extremely high reliability and require no attention for at least five years. This dream evidently has been realized in British Columbia by the development of the special VHF radio stations described in this paper. The presentation of the paper included a series of eighty colored slides illustrating the historical background of the development, a description of the radio station equipment as well as some field installations of mountain top repeaters and snow course base stations.