If I’m remembering right, it was on the south tower. Quite low on the tower, I assume because the tower couldn’t handle the windload otherwise.
I thought the DATA project BTOP fiber went down Duffy to University then crossed the tracks to Preserve. Also I seem to remember some telco carrier like Windstream or CenturyLink trying to sell me fiber transport and checking towers that were on their network. I remember there was one south of Hinckley. I could be confusing the Kane Rd. tower with the one at Leland Rd. Which BTW is a weird tower. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 8:14 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] giant cellular panel antennas Sprint and US Cellular are there. T-Mobile is down on University Rd. I don't have accurate information for AT&T and Verizon for that area. It does look like there are three carriers on those two towers, so one of those two is likely there. Anything at that site is going to be using Frontier or DATA for fiber, likely DATA. CenturyLink has some tollway IRUs and then a DeKalb - Dixon - Galesburg route mostly along country roads. Sprint is along UPRR. MCI is in a pipeline that goes underneath my farm from St. Charles to Maple Park to my farm to SW of Shabbona. AT&T goes from Plano to DeKalb to Rockford. Windstream and PEG Bandwidth\Uniti\BlueBird has some laterals off of DATA fiber. That might be it for anything remotely close to there. Sprint is on the south tower per a tower map I have of theirs. US Cellular is on the North tower, per ULS. Which tower was it on? Looks like my CCIsites account expired. Sometimes the site diagrams say who is on the tower. That might clue in who the other carrier is on that tower. ----- Mike Hammett <http://www.ics-il.com/> Intelligent Computing Solutions <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> Midwest Internet Exchange <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> The Brothers WISP <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> _____ From: "Ken Hohhof" <af...@kwisp.com <mailto:af...@kwisp.com> > To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> > Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 7:21:48 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] giant cellular panel antennas US30 and Kane Rd. between Waterman and Shabbona. Just across the RR tracks. Two self supporters at the site. I think there’s maybe CenturyLink fiber there? I should be able to figure out from licenses which cellcos are on those towers. Would ATS be Atlantic Tower Services? From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> > On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 7:09 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] giant cellular panel antennas Where? I'll go look at it and snap pictures. ;-) ----- Mike Hammett <http://www.ics-il.com/> Intelligent Computing Solutions <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> Midwest Internet Exchange <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> The Brothers WISP <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> _____ From: "Ken Hohhof" <af...@kwisp.com <mailto:af...@kwisp.com> > To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> > Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 7:03:02 PM Subject: [AFMUG] giant cellular panel antennas I drove by a celltower today where a tower crew (truck said ATS) was installing arrays of these giant panels. They looked like sheets of drywall, but actually I’d estimate they were around 3x5 feet. Almost as tall as the tower guy installing one of them. 3 arrays, each consisting of 3 of these panels. I’ve never seen such big antennas. They were putting them fairly low on the tower, maybe because of windload? I didn’t stop to take photos, I didn’t want them calling the police on me thinking I was a terrorist or something. But from my description, does anybody have a guess what these were? This was halfway between 2 small towns in a rural area, next to a state route and a railroad track (not commuter). Could these be some sort of multiband 5G antenna, covering all the low and mid bands? -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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