He's been dropping ex-MCI stuff off of towers I believe he's bought in NY. It's fun watching him on FB.
Did he part with any other of his Chicago area towers? The few I spot checked still seem to be on his site and not on VB's. How's VB been for you? I asked for a quote for an ex-USCC tower and the rate was high... about $750/month for 4x sectors and 2x 2' dishes. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 9:59:26 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 4700 MHz band and FAA These days, I think Jay likes counting his money (like Scrooge McDuck), thanks to owning a tower down the street from the CBOE data center. He sold the tower I’m on to Vertical Bridge. From: Mike Hammett Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 9:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 4700 MHz band and FAA Okay. All I remembered was 4.2. Jay loves puling old stuff down. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Skorup" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 9:24:50 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 4700 MHz band and FAA No, that was 3.7-4.2. They used 6 and 11GHz too. I've also heard that 8GHz was in use in some places. And all that on the same antenna. Those horns are good from about 3.2GHz up to something like 13GHz IIRC. Amazing stuff for the late 50s / early 60s. Terry has a bunch of that 4GHz rigid rectangular waveguide laying around. No idea why he doesn't scrap it since it's all useless. He just doesn't like letting go of some things. On 9/22/2015 8:55 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: Didn't Long Lines operate there too? I think there's a commercial licensed band around there too, but no licenses issued in forever. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Skorup" mailto:[email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 8:16:23 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 4700 MHz band and FAA IIRC, 4.2-4.9GHz is all DoD. On 9/22/2015 7:46 PM, Jaime Solorza wrote: <blockquote> Think so and we have lots of military communication outfits at Bliss Biggs McGregor and WSMR bases.....airport is surrounded by Bliss and Biggs on two sides On Sep 22, 2015 6:12 PM, "Rory Conaway" < [email protected] > wrote: <blockquote> Isn’t that military? Rory From: Af [mailto: [email protected] ] On Behalf Of Jaime Solorza Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 3:54 PM To: Animal Farm Subject: [AFMUG] 4700 MHz band and FAA FCC folks are in town looking for interference in aviation 119.5MHz and 4.7GHz. Who operates in 4.7? Thx </blockquote> </blockquote>
