It doesn't look like that install is done yet. You can see most or all of the ports are still capped. It's grounded already but I don't see any radio or RF gear connected to them yet.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2020, 11:01 PM Nate Burke <n...@blastcomm.com> wrote: > See, back about 1000 years ago, they made cameras that, believe it or not, > that's all they did, they couldn't even play games. But these ancient > 'Cameras' had special tunable filters and were able to bend and modify > beams of light to make far away objects appear closer, all without the help > of any computer aided 'software' > > I have an SX40 camera that's about 5 years old now, 32x optical Zoom, It > can take very clear pictures of equipment on the tower from the ground. > > On 3/4/2020 10:03 PM, Steve Jones wrote: > > 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> wrote: > >> So here are a few photos, anybody recognize these? And why just antennas >> with no radios? >> >> >> >> *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Steve Jones >> *Sent:* Thursday, February 6, 2020 9:18 AM >> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> >> *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> 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> 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. >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Mike Hammett >> *Sent:* Thursday, February 6, 2020 7:36 AM >> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> >> *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. >> >> >> >> ----- >> 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 9:22:22 PM >> *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] giant cellular panel antennas >> >> 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). 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