What the hell kind of camera do you have that can zoom into a label
that well?
On Wed, Mar 4, 2020, 9:39 PM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com
<mailto:af...@kwisp.com>> wrote:
So here are a few photos, anybody recognize these? And why just
antennas with no radios?
*From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com
<mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com>> *On Behalf Of *Steve Jones
*Sent:* Thursday, February 6, 2020 9:18 AM
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*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] giant cellular panel antennas
second image on the about us page is what i saw them putting up,
maybe 4'x6' antenna
On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 9:09 AM Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com
<mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>> wrote:
I sold some tower space to an airline data company years ago
that used large panels like that.
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 6, 2020, at 7:11 AM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com
<mailto:af...@kwisp.com>> wrote:
Excellent. The blue line goes to the tower with the giant
panels being installed. The yellow line about a mile east
goes to the tower that I thought Windstream said was VZW
and they could get me fiber at.
So you’re saying the blue line is a spur built by PEG off
the DATA project fiber built with BTOP funding?
I’m still curious what those big panels in arrays of 3
are. I know cellular antennas have gotten bigger, but I
haven’t seen them that big before. I keep worrying that
LAA will arrive and 5 GHz will become useless.
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<mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com>> *On Behalf Of *Mike Hammett
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*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] giant cellular panel antennas
You're right in that DATA goes down Duffy. It's just the
only significant network that's anywhere near there. Well,
ComEd goes down 30 from 23 to Rock Falls, but they're not
selling to others.
Check the attachment. Yellow across the top is DATA.
Vertical yellow on the right is Windstream. Blue is
PEG\Uniti\BlueBird. Brown is a build that never happened.
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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
<mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com>> *On Behalf Of *Mike Hammett
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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.
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*Sent: *Wednesday, February 5, 2020 7:21:48 PM
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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
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Where? I'll go look at it and snap pictures. ;-)
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*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?
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