They're legal documents so can't be fudged though the satellite map
showed the north end of the baseball field where there are no antennas
and would be a bad place to put one anyway. Just north on the other
side of a small hill is the PG&E tower with the antenna on it. We know
around here because if you pay attention to city council meetings they
have to get permission from them and the exact address is given. It
would be very hard to tamper with that tower BTW. The new one is even
on private property. Verizon also wants an antenna on that PG&E tower
and explained at the council meeting that they can't be too low or too
high so locations are limited.
This site will give you the towers in your area. The FCC also has
another site which will break them down by carrier.
http://www.antennasearch.com
On 09/28/2012 02:21 PM, bob wrote:
I went in search of a CLEAR tower once using a map from the Internet. I
was trying to figure out why the connection kept dropping.
I never could quite locate the tower and strongly suspect its GPS coords
had been fudged to prevent tampering.
I'd be wary of trusting those tower maps much.
On Friday, September 28, 2012 3:19:05 PM UTC-5, jtoolsdev wrote:
There are tower maps on the Internet. I looked up the towers for the
carrier. Funny thing is I had similar dropouts from my former carrier
in that park at about the same locations and they don't have an antenna
there so maybe something else is interferring. The new carrier wanted
to put a tower dressed as a pine tree almost behind my house but the
neighbors fought it. From FCC records it appears the new tower down the
road a mile and a half was approved on the 15th. I don't know how long
it will take to be implemented. It too will be on a PG&E tower.
On 09/28/2012 12:56 PM, bob wrote:
Are you *100%* certain it was using the tower you were standing next to?
On Friday, September 28, 2012 2:05:55 PM UTC-5, jtoolsdev wrote:
I recently changed my mobile carrier to save some money. The new
carrier's signal here at the house isn't so good for data so my apps
with LVL can fail when trying to link up with Play. To me that answers
why some of my customers will get a failure (usually within the first
few days of installing since I don't check beyond that). I tell them it
may well be due to poor carrier signal and to try wifi if they can. I
use wifi instead at the house though the carrier is putting up a new
tower down the road so that problem will go away.
What I noticed this morning on a walk at a park where that carrier has
a
tower or antenna (it's on a PG&E high transmission tower) is that I got
dropouts listening to streaming radio. Walking outdoors in this
neighborhood where that tower is over 2 miles away I don't get any
drops
while listening. So to the mobile wonks here why would I get dropouts
right at the tower? The phone is an unlocked Galaxy Nexus and the
carrier is 4G or HSPA. Signal was 3 or 4 bars right there at the
tower. This could be useful to know if someone argues back that the
cell tower is right next door and not connecting.
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