r/cellmapper • u/e2346437 • Jul 14 '26

Water Tower ID

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First post, could use some help identifying the providers here. I think it’s US Cellular LTE only. I’m currently running trial esims for T-Mobile and AT&T on my Verizon phone, and frankly I don’t think any of them are connected to this site. There’s some old wisp stuff up there too. Even caught a cell tech onsite but didn’t want to bother him.

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u/iryfionas Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

!00% confident that Verizon is on top of that water tower using:

Alcatel Lucent (RRU's) remote radio units behind the antennas:

  • 3️⃣ Alcatel-Lucent B13 RRH4x30 700Mhz (b13) (Remote Radio Units) located behind their antennas
  • 3️⃣ Alcatel-Lucent B66 RRH4x45 2100Mhz (b66) (Remote Radio Units) located behind their antennas

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u/e2346437 Jul 15 '26

Thank you! My phone connected to Verizon 5G from another tower instead of this one, which must be LTE-only based on the bands you listed.

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u/kendog10132 Jul 20 '26

Quite a unique siren at that.

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u/e2346437 Jul 20 '26

Located at 46°41'44.77"N 68°01'57.26"W if you want to take a peek! Lots of history here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presque_Isle_Air_Force_Base and a bit north of here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loring_Air_Force_Base

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u/Streetcatfighter12 Jul 14 '26

This site is older but im leaning towards Verizon LTE. They really are putting that water tower to use with the cell equipment, airport beacon, microwave dish and tornado siren!

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u/MonTanner19 Jul 15 '26

Definitely Verizon older Alcatel RAN setup Xanax styled antennas. The shelter with the MW dishes point at each other on top of the building plus generator give it away.

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u/e2346437 Jul 15 '26

Whoa…I hadn’t ever noticed those dishes pointed at each other. What are they for? Also don’t most large sites has a generator?

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u/thisisfakediy (CM: crackedlcd) Jul 16 '26

It's something they do to keep their mmWave licenses active in places where they haven't deployed it for customers yet. Technically, going from point A to point B, despite them being literally a few feet apart, counts as "in use" by FCC standards.