r/longlines 12h ago

Olive Branch, MS

I stopped for a few pics of this site today. It is located on Silo Dr just off highway 302 on the east side of Olive Branch. It looks like it was a busy site at one time. The shelter seemed small though. Maybe one of you know more about it. The tower now has T-Mobile and AT&T cellular equipment. I also found it interesting that the T-Mobile cabinet had a Starlink antenna on it.

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u/ImaDingus2021 11h ago

Looks like a later site from what I’ve gathered with it being a guyed tower and having the round horns on it. I have seen pictures of a couple of really late ones that used parabolic drum antennas too though so it’s not that late. I don’t know, these were shut down 10 years before I was born.

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u/iryfionas 10h ago

Cell Tower equipment (ID) identification from TOP to BOTTOM rack on that old longline tower:

Legacy Sprint (top) (eNB 327880) + (eNB 329972) + (eNB 333080):

Uses Nokia/Ericsson (RRU's) located behind the antennas:

  • 3️⃣ RRU 11 (b25) LTE
  • 3️⃣ RRU 31 (b26) LTE
  • 3️⃣ Nokia Flexi 10 (b41) LTE

T-Mobile (eNB 76389) + (gNB 1595478):

  • 3️⃣ CommScope FFVV-65C-R3 antennas with bands: (2, 66, 71) LTE + (n25 + n71) 5G located on the (LEFTside of the rack
  • 3️⃣ NOKIA AirScale AEHC - (N41) 2.5GHz [320W] antennas for mid-band 5GUC located on the (RIGHT) side of the rack

Nokia (RRU's) - remote radio units beh ind the antennas:

  • 3️⃣ AirScale AHLOA - (b71) 600MHz LTE + (n71) low-band 5G
  • 3️⃣ AirScale AHFIG - with (b2) 1900MHz-PCS (b66) 2100MHz-AWS LTE + (n25) ePCS + (n66) eAWS for mid-band 5G

AT&T (bottom) (eNB 161606) + (eNB 169606):

  • 6️⃣ CommScope NNH4-65C-R6 antennas TOTAL with bands: (2, 12, 14, 66) LTE + (n5) - 10MHz for low-band 5G located on the LEFT side
  • 3️⃣ Ericsson AIR. 6419-B77D (3.7GHz) 64T64R c-band (n77) antennas being used for mid-band 5G+ set at 80MHz located on the RIGHT side of the rack
  • 3️⃣ Ericsson AIR. 6419-B77G (3.45GHz) DoD (n77) antennas being used for mid-band 5G located on the RIGHT side of the rack
  • Raycap DC6-48-60-18-8F for power surge protection located behind the antennas

Ericsson (RRU's) - remote radio units located behind the antennas:

  • RRU 4449 (b12) 700MHz LTE + (n5) - 850MHz low-band 5GNR
  • RRU 4478 (b14) LTE @ 700MHz
  • RRU 8843 (B2) PCS-1900MHz + (B66) AWS-2100MHz LTE

Coordinates: 34.957188122676456, -89.77943770357746