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 > > Midwest Internet Exchange > > The Brothers WISP > > > > 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 > > Midwest Internet Exchange > > The Brothers WISP > > > > 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 > > Midwest Internet Exchange > > The Brothers WISP > > > > 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 > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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