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Sweat Mountain is a
mountain A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited Summit (topography), summit area, and ...
in far northeastern
Cobb County Cobb County is a county in the U.S. state of Georgia, located in the Atlanta metropolitan area in the north central portion of the state. As of 2020 Census, the population was 766,149. Its county seat and largest city is Marietta. Along with ...
,
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, in the
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s 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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of
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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 counties ...
, and second in the core
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area, 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 counties ...
, 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,
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s, and
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s, for
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s,
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s,
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, and
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. The fact that
Stone Mountain Stone Mountain is a quartz monzonite dome Inselberg, 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 o ...
and
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 counties ...
are both protected as
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s 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
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, south-southeast
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(including much of
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), and western Roswell. 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 Coun ...
(
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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 Lost Mountain is a mountain in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, located approximately 10 miles northwest of Antlers, Oklahoma. It is a part of the Kiamichi Mountains, a subrange of the Ouachita Mountains. Its summit is 791 feet above sea level.Oklah ...
.


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
gravel road A gravel road is a type of unpaved road surfaced with gravel that has been brought to the site from a quarry or stream bed. They are common in less-developed nations, and also in the rural areas of developed nations such as Canada and the Unite ...
that led to the summit. Years ago, before
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s took over, a
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would scale a giant
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to provide smoke coordinates for fire control every day. With
suburbanization Suburbanization is a population shift from central urban areas into suburbs, resulting in the formation of (sub)urban sprawl. As a consequence of the movement of households and businesses out of the city centers, low-density, peripheral urba ...
, this tower has been removed, but there is a
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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 campers. Wigley Road at one time went from Sandy Plains Road all the way through to
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, 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
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, 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
lake A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much large ...
off Mountain Road at the base of the mountain served as the site for a huge
music festival A music festival is a community event with performances of singing and instrument playing that is often presented with a theme such as musical genre (e.g., rock, blues, folk, jazz, classical music), nationality, locality of musicians, or h ...
. In early April 2006, the south side of the mountain was grazed by an F1
tornado A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. It is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone, altho ...
, causing relatively minor damage to some homes. The
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moved due east from Noonday to
Alpharetta Alpharetta is a city in northern Fulton County, Georgia, United States, and is a part of the Atlanta metropolitan area. As of the 2020 US Census, Alpharetta's population was 65,818 The population in 2010 was 57,551. History In the 1830s, the Ch ...
, doing much more serious damage in several other places.


Broadcasters

The following broadcast stations are all within 300 meters or 1000 feet of the
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, and are listed with
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,
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or
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,
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, and
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e/owner.


Radio

*
WBZY WBZY (105.7 FM broadcasting, FM) – branded Z105.7 – is a commercial Radio broadcasting, radio station licensed to Canton, Georgia, Canton, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, broadcasting a Spanish Spanish language, CHR format. Owned by i ...
FM 105.7 Canton,
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*
W265AV WSTR (94.1 MHz, "Star 94") is an FM radio station licensed to Smyrna, Georgia, and serving the Atlanta metropolitan area. Owned by Audacy, Inc., it broadcasts a rhythmic adult contemporary format. Its studios are located at Colony Square in Mid ...
FM 100.9
Woodstock Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held during August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, United States, southwest of the town of Woodstock, New York, Woodstock. ...
, Immanuel Broadcasting Network * 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 ...
*
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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 Community Public Radio 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 WATC-DT (channel 57) is a religious broadcasting independent station (North America), independent television station in Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Owned by Carolina Christian Broadcasting, the station maintains studios on Enterpr ...
41 ( DTV 57.1),
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, Community Television, Inc. * WSKC-CA 22, Atlanta,
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silent, digital is now near Norcross *
WXID-LP WXID-LP, UHF analog channel 49, was a low-powered JCTV- affiliated television station licensed to Marietta, Georgia, United States. The station's transmitter was located atop Sweat Mountain, north-northwest of Atlanta. History Since being per ...
49
(originally W55BM),
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, Word of God Fellowship (silent, broadcast
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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 Mou ...
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, an ...
There was also a 50 kW transmitter on former
TV channel A television channel is a terrestrial frequency or virtual number over which a television station or television network is distributed. For example, in North America, "channel 2" refers to the terrestrial or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with ...
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
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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
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, the
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standard for
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stations. (This is different from the worldwide
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standard, which is derived from the DVB-S standard that Dish Network has used for DBS 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 In telecommunications, a repeater is an electronic device that receives a signal and retransmits it. Repeaters are used to extend transmissions so that the signal can cover longer distances or be received on the other side of an obstruction. Some ...

Big Shanty Repeater Group
* KD4NC/R 146.73 (−0.6 MHz),
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(repeater, NOT a digipeater)


References


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