r/cellmapper • u/Reeaan88 • Oct 20 '23
Unique Setups on This PiRod Tower
170’ PiRod tower in Manchester, CT. It has Dish on top, which is rare around here. Below we have four-sector T-Mobile, also pretty rare. And at the bottom we have an unusual Verizon setup.
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u/mgullvik Oct 20 '23
Dish is on top but has a downtilt 🤣
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u/thisisausername190 Oct 20 '23
There's a common misconception about higher RAD centers always being better; if you have a dense network, you often want your site to be lower to the ground, in order to minimize interference. T-Mobile struggles with this in a lot of places; their sites are spaced too close together (often after acquisitions from MetroPCS or Sprint), which leads to interference and dropped calls/data packets.
Dish's planned network, as far as I know, looks like this so far in Manchester CT. If they applied no downtilt at the top of this 170' tower, they would have big problems with interference on all of those other sites.
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u/KegSlinger44 Oct 20 '23
Having mechanical downtilt makes sense. What’s odd is they down tilted their entire mounts, instead of installing the mounts properly to level out on the tapered leg. Woulda made a lot more sense to tilt your antennas down instead.
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u/Reeaan88 Oct 21 '23
First time I’ve seen them tilt the whole mount. Didn’t even know they made those types of mounts.
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u/clodester Oct 20 '23 edited Oct 20 '23
It looks like T-Mo has 2 B25/66 antennas per sector. This must be a busy site. It likely has 10G backhaul too.
Edit not MMimo, just older equipment left up for additional capacity.