Cellular carriers put up 3 and 4 sector frames all the time, I assume they also take them down when they do upgrades. I wonder what happens to the old ones? Scrapped by the tower crews for the steel? It might be interesting to contact some local tower work companies to see if they have a bunch of them sitting in their yard, or if they could arrange for some to fall off a truck in the near future. I seriously doubt the big cellcos get them back. They typically buy stuff for a site, have it kitted and drop shipped to the site for a contract tower crew.
I know where there’s one sitting outside the fence at an AT&T cell tower along with some sector antennas, I figured it was a new one going up soon, but maybe it’s an old one they just took down. Maybe it’s like the Sprint tower by me that got a new propane tank, the old one is still sitting outside the fence, I wonder if some scrap company is supposed to pick it up, or if it will sit there rusting forever. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of TJ Trout Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2016 1:08 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] Mounting sectors to 80ft self supporter I need to install many sectors to a ~3 inch leg on a self supporter , I think the leg is too large for the sectors and I also need more sectors than I have leg , Chuck's 3 x mtow thing looks nice but I need all of the sectors to face the same direction. Any ideas on a way to make or buy some type of stand off that can accommodate many sectors ? I see the ones that have 4 vertical pipes but they are very expensive. Could you upload a pic if you have done this before ?
