OK, not quite that gigantic. Plus they were installing them in arrays of 3, just like your typical cellular array, except each element in the array was a lot bigger than I’m used to seeing. If the idea was to do beam steering with multiple elements in the panel, I wouldn’t think there would be 3 of them per side.
From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Eric Nielsen Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 7:19 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] giant cellular panel antennas Passive repeater? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_repeater On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 8:03 PM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com <mailto:af...@kwisp.com> > wrote: 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 -- Eric Nielsen 571-508-7409 ericlniel...@gmail.com <mailto:ericlniel...@gmail.com>
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