| Sweat Mountain | |
|---|---|
 Sweat Mountain | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 1,688 ft (515 m) |
| Coordinates | 34°04′01″N84°27′20″W / 34.066944°N 84.455556°W /34.066944; -84.455556 |
| Geography | |
  Sweat Mountain Sweat Mountain (the United States) Show map of the United States | |
| Parent range | Appalachian Mountains |
| Topo map | USGSMountain Park |
| Climbing | |
| Easiest route | residential streets |
Sweat Mountain is amountain in far northeasternCobb County,Georgia, in thesuburbs north ofAtlanta. The exactGNIS location of itssummit is34°4′1″N84°27′20″W / 34.06694°N 84.45556°W /34.06694; -84.45556, and it has an official (USGS)elevation of 1,688 ft (515 m)above mean sea level. It is the second-highest point in the county behindKennesaw Mountain, and second in the coremetro Atlanta area, behindKennesaw Mountain, which is also in Cobb County. It is fifth if theexurban counties further north are considered.
This height has made the mountain very attractive forradio, having severaltransmitters,radio towers, andantennas, forpagers,cellphones,broadcasting, andamateur radio. The fact thatStone Mountain andKennesaw Mountain are both protected asparks has led to a proliferation oftechnology at the top. At the same time, both theantenna farm and the densely packed houses detract from the view of the mountain from surrounding areas of northeast Cobb, south-southeastCherokee (including much ofWoodstock), and westernRoswell.[citation needed]
The presence of the mountain has inspired the naming of a variety of nearby establishments including: Sweat Mountain Park, Mountain View Regional Library, Mountain View Elementary School, and Mountain View United Methodist Church.
Sweat Mountain is also a part of theridge that divides theChattahoochee Riverbasin to the south and southeast, from theLake Allatoona (Etowah River) basin to the north and northwest. From Sweat Mountain, this runs west-southwest through Cobb to Kennesaw Mountain andLost Mountain.
At one time the entire mountain was owned by the Wigley family. Henry Clay Wigley continued to live at the base of the mountain for decades. Right across from his house was agravel road that led to the summit. Years ago, beforesatellites took over, aU.S. Forest Serviceranger would scale a giantfire tower to provide smoke coordinates for fire control every day. Withsuburbanization, this tower has been removed, but there is abenchmark set inconcrete where one of the tower feet once rested. On the most northern side of the summit are naturalrock formations, including a naturalrock shelter that could house one or twocampers.
Wigley Road at one time went from Sandy Plains Road all the way through toGeorgia 92, but it was closed in the 1970s due to poor maintenance. The main road now turns off from itself (makes a 90-degree turn) and continues generally west as Jamerson Road. Following the remaining Wigley Road to thedead end, there is a barrow pit just past thebarricades. There was a place where naturalsprings created a huge swampymudbog in the middle of the Wigley Road, which led to its closing.
In the early 1970s, alake off Mountain Road at the base of the mountain served as the site for a hugemusic festival.
In early April 2006, the south side of the mountain was grazed by anF1tornado, causing relatively minor damage to some homes. Thestorm moved due east fromNoonday toAlpharetta, doing much more serious damage in several other places.
The following broadcast stations are all within 300 meters or 1000 feet of thesummit, and are listed withcallsign,frequency orchannel,community of license, andlicensee/owner.
There are also long-standing applications (potentiallymoot) forbroadcast translators by Calvary Chapel on 94.5 and 103.7 to serve Woodstock. Another application for a translator on 102.1 byCommunity Public Radio to serve "Sweat Mountain" (which is not a recognizedcommunity) is also listed by theFederal Communications Commission (FCC).
There was also a 50 kW transmitter on formerTV channel 55 (700 MHz block D, 716-722 MHz) forMediaFLO, apay TV service available onmobile TV. It was part of asingle-frequency network across the metro area, and all operate under callsign WPZA237 nationally. It was located 26 meters (85 ft)above ground level of approximately 1,620 feet (490 m), at34°3′59″N84°27′14″W / 34.06639°N 84.45389°W /34.06639; -84.45389, a separate tower from those listed for the other stations above.[1]
A second transmitter on former channel 56 (block E, 722–728 MHz) was used byManifest Wireless (which, likeDish Network, is asubsidiary ofEchoStar). It was also an SFN, and used eight locations in metro Atlanta to transmit anATSC signal, under callsign WQJY980.[2]ATSC tuners showed highsignal strength, however there were no standardMPEG-2 channels available, and it appeared that it would be used forATSC-M/H, themobile TV standard forterrestrial television stations. (This is different from the worldwideDVB-SH standard, which is derived from theDVB-S standard that Dish Network has used forDBS since the 1990s.) The signal from Sweat Mountain was active, but no service to the public was ever announced.
