Is this a cell site?

http://www3.sympatico.ca/kilo.watt/images/cell_site.JPG

The second questions is: Does a cell site is used by many cell phone service
providers
TIA to satisfy my curiosity! ;-)

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It looks like a cell site.

My friend actually is one of the guys that goes in and wires up new
equipment and services to the cell towers. From what I've gathered,
cells sites have many different services (Verizon, Tmobile, etc) at
each site, and they all lease/rent/buy space on a tower. There's a T1
line going into each one, and at the base is equipment racks to bring
in the provider's hardware.

Dave

 

Yes it is....except here in Florida they are either crooked or
sideways.....Ross

 

Yes, it's a cell site. It's the pretty standard 'three sector' arrangement:
There are three 'sets' of antennas, each covering 120 degrees. In each set
there are usually three antennas: Two that receive (the signals are combined
in a form of diversity reception), and one that transmits. It appears that
your tower has the transmit antennas below the receive antennas, but I
couldn't really say for sure.

You can also see a couple of covered microwave dish antennas that are
probably being used for site to site (point to point) links to other small
cell sites, a large hilltop repeater, etc.

Typically, yes -- one company will build a tower, and the other carriers
will rent space of the unused space on it. On the other hand, I've seen
cases where you have 2 or 3 towers within a few hundred feet of one another
because the companies apparently couldn't come to a leasing agreement!

Some of the cell phone companies have maps of their tower locations -- some
even with pictures! Sprint's is here:
http://www.sprint.com/pcsbusiness/coverage/towermaps.html

---Joel Kolstad

 

<SNIP>

That would make more sense then vice-versa, correct? The received
signal is coming from your low-power cell phone, and you'd want a good
line-of-sight in order to overcome any transmission power shortcomings.

However, you can transmit from the tower at a much higher power than
your cell phone can, so you're not as worried about being lower and can
overcome minor LOS shortcomings with brute power, which you can't do
with a cell phone.

Dave

 

Thanks to all to read me and for the informative replies. Was appreciated.
I'm looking forward for more replies.

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Alain(alias:Kilowatt)
Montréal Québec
PS: 1000 excuses for errors or omissions,
i'm a "pure" french canadian!
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