Sweat Mountain is a

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in far northeastern

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, in the suburbs north of

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. The exact

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location of its

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is , and it has an official (

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)

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. It is the second-highest point in the county behind

Kennesaw Mountain Kennesaw Mountain is a mountain between Marietta and Kennesaw, Georgia in the United States with a summit elevation of . It is the highest point in the core ( urban and suburban) metro Atlanta area, and fifth after further-north exurban coun ...

, and second in the core

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area, behind

, which is also in Cobb County. It is fifth if the

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an counties further north are considered. This height has made the mountain very attractive for

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, having several

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s, and antennas, for

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, and

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. The fact that

Stone Mountain Stone Mountain is a quartz monzonite dome monadnock and the site of Stone Mountain Park, east of Atlanta, Georgia. Outside the park is the small city of Stone Mountain, Georgia. The park is the most visited tourist site in the state of Georgia. ...

and

are both protected as parks has led to a proliferation of

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at the top. At the same time, both the

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and the densely packed houses detract from the view of the mountain from surrounding areas of north east Cobb, south-southeast

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(including much of

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), and western

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. Sweat Mountain is contained entirely within Highland Pointe neighborhood, a subdivision consisting of 497 homes. 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 the

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that divides the

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basin to the south and southeast, from the

Lake Allatoona Lake Allatoona (officially called Allatoona Lake) is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir on the Etowah River in northwestern part of the State of Georgia. This reservoir is mostly in southeastern Bartow County and southwestern Cherokee Co ...

(

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) basin to the north and northwest. From Sweat Mountain, this runs west-southwest through Cobb to Kennesaw Mountain and Lost Mountain.

History

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 a

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that led to the summit. Years ago, before

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s took over, a

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ranger would scale a giant

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to provide smoke coordinates for fire control every day. With

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, this tower has been removed, but there is a benchmark set in

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where one of the tower feet once rested. On the most northern side of the summit are natural

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s, including a natural

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that could house one or two

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s. Wigley Road at one time went from Sandy Plains Road all the way through to Georgia 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 the dead end, there is a barrow pit just past the

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s. There was a place where natural

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s created a huge swampy

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bog in the middle of the Wigley Road, which led to its closing. In the early 1970s, a

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off Mountain Road at the base of the mountain served as the site for a huge music festival. In early April 2006, the south side of the mountain was grazed by an F1

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, causing relatively minor damage to some homes. The

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moved due east from Noonday to

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, doing much more serious damage in several other places.

Broadcasters

The following broadcast stations are all within 300 meters or 1000 feet of the

, and are listed with

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or channel,

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, and

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e/owner.

Radio

WBZY WBZY (105.7 FM) – branded Z105.7 – is a commercial radio station licensed to Canton, Georgia, broadcasting a Spanish CHR format. Owned by iHeartMedia, WBZY serves the Atlanta metropolitan area. The WBZY studios are located in Atla ...

FM 105.7 Canton,

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* W265AV FM 100.9

Immanuel Broadcasting Network WCCV FM 91.7 ("The Message") is a Christian radio station licensed to serve the city of Cartersville, Georgia. The station plays Contemporary Christian music. The station transmits from Mullinax Mountain, between Euharlee and Wax, Georgia ...

* ~~W229AG~~ FM 93.7 Sandy Plains,

Calvary Chapel Calvary Chapel is an association of evangelical churches, maintains a number of radio stations around the world and operates many local Calvary Chapel Bible College programs. Beginning in 1965 in Southern California, this fellowship of churc ...

of Twin Falls — now relaying

WWWQ WWWQ (99.7 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, carrying a Top 40 (CHR) format known as "Q99.7". Owned by Cumulus Media, WWWQ serves the Atlanta metropolitan area as the regional affiliate for ''The Daly Download with ...

FM 99.7 from WWWQ's own tower at

North Druid Hills North Druid Hills, also known as Briarcliff or Toco Hills, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (North Druid Hills CDP) in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The population was 18,947 at the 2010 census. The commercial cen ...

* W201DM FM 88.1, Calvary's new station relaying KAWZ from Idaho since April 2014 There are also long-standing applications (potentially

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) for

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s by Calvary Chapel on 94.5 and 103.7 to serve Woodstock. Another application for a translator on 102.1 by

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to serve "Sweat Mountain" (which is not a recognized

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) is also listed by the

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(FCC).

Television

* WATC-DT 41 ( DTV 57.1),

, Community Television, Inc. * ~~WSKC-CA~~ 22, Atlanta,

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— silent, digital is now near Norcross * ~~WXID-LP 49~~ (originally W55BM), Marietta,

Word of God Fellowship The Daystar Television Network (commonly referred to as Daystar Television, often shortened to Daystar) is an American evangelical Christian-based religious television network owned by the Word of God Fellowship, founded by Marcus Lamb in 1993. ...

(silent, broadcast JCTV under TBN ownership) *WDWW-LD WDWW-LD, virtual and UHF digital channel 28, is a low-powered CBN News- affiliated television station licensed to Cleveland, Georgia, United States. The station is owned by DTV America Corporation. Its transmitter is located on Horsetrough Moun ...
7 (briefly-on-air DTV permit for WDWW-LP analog 28 in

Cleveland, Georgia Cleveland is a city in White County, Georgia, located northeast of Atlanta and southeast of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Its population was 3,410 at the 2010 census (up from 1,907 in 2000). It is the county seat of White County. Cleveland is home to ...

), Atlanta, Richard C. & Lisa A. Goetz of

Hendersonville, Tennessee Hendersonville is the largest city in Sumner County, Tennessee, on Old Hickory Lake. The population was 61,753 at the 2020 census. Hendersonville is the fourth-largest city in the Nashville metropolitan area after Nashville, Murfreesboro, ...

There was also a 50 kW transmitter on former

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55 (700 MHz block D, 716-722 MHz) for

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, a

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service available on

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. It was part of a

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across the metro area, and all operate under callsign WPZA237 nationally. It was located

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of approximately , at , a separate tower from those listed for the other stations above. A second transmitter on former channel 56 (block E, 722–728 MHz) was used by Manifest Wireless (which, like

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, is a subsidiary of

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). It was also an SFN, and used eight locations in metro Atlanta to transmit an

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signal, under callsign WQJY980.

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s showed high

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, however there were no standard

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channels available, and it appeared that it would be used for ATSC-M/H, the

standard for

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stations. (This is different from the worldwide DVB-SH standard, which is derived from the DVB-S standard that Dish Network has used for

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since the 1990s.) The signal from Sweat Mountain was active, but no service to the public was ever announced.

Amateur repeaters

Radio

* ~~NF4GA (−0.6 MHz, 100 Hz),~~ sponsored by th
North Fulton Amateur Radio League
* ~~W4DOC 146.820 (−0.6 MHz, 146.2 Hz)~~, sponsored by th
Atlanta Radio Club
(remote receiver for repeater at Bank of America Plaza) ''off air as of 4/1/2018'' * W4PME 145.410 (−, 100 Hz), remote receiver for repeater W4PME * N4NQV 147.345 (+0.6 MHz) (151.4 Hz) sponsored by th
Big Shanty Repeater Group
* W4PME 224.620 (−, 100 Hz), sponsored by th
North Fulton Amateur Radio League
* K4RFL 224.960 (−, 100 Hz) Georgia International ''off air as of 3/18/2014'' * K4RFL 442.875 (+5.0 MHz, 100 Hz) Georgia International RA ''off air as of 3/18/2014'' * NF4GA 444.475 (+5.0 MHz, 100 Hz), sponsored by th
North Fulton Amateur Radio League
* W5JR 927.0125 (−25 MHz, 146.2 Hz), sponsored by th
North Fulton Amateur Radio League
* N4YCI 927.5750 (−25 MHz, 151.4 Hz)

Television

* N4NEQ 427.2500 MHz AM TV (input 1250 MHz FM 20 MHz modulation) sponsored by th
Atlanta ATV

Digital packet radio

* N4NEQ 144.390 (N4NEQ-2 APRS digipeater
Big Shanty Repeater Group
* KD4NC/R 146.73 (−0.6 MHz),

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(repeater, NOT a digipeater)

References

External links

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