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Apparently, tower building is a Dirty Job, according to Mike Rowe of Discovery Channel’s “Dirty Jobs.” I happen to love the show, and I love towers, so what’s not to love about this? The February 7th show has Mike joining the Great Plains Towers crew as they build a new stick. No doubt . . . → Read More: Is Tower Building a Dirty Job? Turkey Vultures in Pittsburg, California find this CrownCastle tower very pleasant, indeed! The FCC has recently released new rules requiring public notice and and opportunity to comment on new Antenna Structure Registration (“ASR”) applications. These new rules, released on December 9th, 2011 are explained by the Commission in the following three paragraphs: 1. In this . . . → Read More: FCC’s New Rules Regarding Migratory Birds Today’s (4/15/11) AGL Bulletin carries a buried-lead story about Sprint’s deployment of new, flexible base stations that are multi-modal, multi-band, and potentially multi-user. Faced with Data Surge, Carriers to ‘Feed the Beast’ with Base Station Innovation Noting the importance of scale, spectrum and innovation, representatives of Sprint Nextel and Clearwire discussed how the growth of . . . → Read More: When (Wireless) Worlds Collide…Will Site Landlords Get $quashed? At the direction of the FCC on January26, 2011 (See: http://tinyurl.com/lightsquared-fcc-file for all of the filings), LightSquared and the GPS Industry Council have formed a working group. The working group will conduct tests of LightSquared’s transmission system to determine whether LightSquared’s proposed filter solution will resolve the demonstrated potential for interference to GPS users . . . → Read More: LightSquared v. GPS Users: We’ll know on June 15, 2011 March 3, 2011: 2 hour live teleconference 1 pm ET (12 pm CT, 11 am MT, 10 am PT) Teleconference Highlights: The wireless industry has built more than 250,000 cell sites in the United States in the past 20 years. But many more cell sites are needed as iPhones, iPads and the like strain existing . . . → Read More: Current Issues in Cell Tower Leases Attention creative wireless site planners: A truly twisted cell tower has risen from a mesa in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This uniquely designed multi-carrier cell tower constructed in the Mesa del Sol area in Albuquerque, New Mexico, just south of the airport. The architect for this site is Dekker/Perich/Sabatini. This site isn’t quite . . . → Read More: A Truly Twisted Cell Tower Here’s a gem of a cell tower that literally towers over an otherwise beautiful desert and mountain landscape along I-25 south of Santa Fe, New Mexico. This tower is 150 feet tall, and completely towers over everything in the view of the drivers along this stretch of I-25. For those of you who . . . → Read More: How to Spoil A New Mexico View
(This post is another entry in an occasional series on Wireless Siting Design Style by Jonathan L. Kramer, Wireless attorney, planner, and advisor to hundreds of local governments in the U.S. ) In wireless planning, it’s often the little things that can make a big difference to the visual outcome of a . . . → Read More: Elements of (Wireless) Style Thanks to Julian Quattlebaum III of the Channel Law Group for sending this along! Report from Melbourne (pronounced “Mel-Bun”) Australia. Day 2 (since day 1 was mostly travel from L.A. to Brisbane (pronounced “Bris-Bun”). Cell sites everywhere, but virtually none are camouflaged. Found only one today. I’ll be posting photos in the gallery soon after returning back to the U.S. Maybe sooner. -Jonathan (at 3:30 P.M. Sunday 10/11/09 . . . → Read More: G’day from Down Under |
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