This is the Home of HiTec. It is called the Communications Office, or CO. If you don't know, it is on the old baseball site, beside "Dry Creek" on the corner of 8th and Ave. H. It is a concrete structure with all the safety features currently available to keep the HiTec system up and running. It is virtually disaster-proof, with self contained heat, air conditioning, humidity control and a backup generator and batteries to keep your phones, cable and internet humming along.

Just South of the Communications Office are the satellite dishes used for Cable TV reception. We have six because not all channels come from the same satellite. That can explain why in the fall, sun spots affect different channels on different days or different times.

The signals come from the satellites to one of the receivers lining the north wall of the Communications Office. Each station has a receiver and an amplifier. At this point, we have a full compliment of stations. For us to add more stations, HiTec would need to add additional receivers and amplifiers, as we did to add History Channel and KPTH. These occupy the majority of the north wall of the Communications office.

The technology is much more advanced, but much less visually imposing. All the Phone calls and internet access,either by phone or edata is routed through these small units. There are integrated circuit boards that control and rout the traffic from each of HiTec's eight "nodes" or geographical segments of the system.