If it looks like they have uptilt its connectivity for air planes. We had some go up near here that looked like that and were low. Theres an outfit here in illinois that puts them up, they do alot of 11ghz backhaul, the company name sounsoundsds like it would give airplanes data, i just dont recall right now
On Wed, Feb 5, 2020, 9:23 PM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > 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 > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > > > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ------------------------------ > > *From: *"Ken Hohhof" <af...@kwisp.com> > *To: *"AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <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> *On Behalf Of *Mike Hammett > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 5, 2020 7:09 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] giant cellular panel antennas > > > > Where? I'll go look at it and snap pictures. ;-) > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > > > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ------------------------------ > > *From: *"Ken Hohhof" <af...@kwisp.com> > *To: *"AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <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 > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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