A Streetcar Named (Cellular) Desire

This is an interesting one Jonathan. When I first looked at it, I thought it was a crane lift going on, but I guess those are guy wires attached to the shelter with the pole on top.

It was wise to leave this one unidentified. In addition to the earthquake problem, a coiled main ground to a questionable spike is a bad idea.

Is this up and running?

The green wire is a better inductor than ground, eh?! And, yes, I suspect the ground rod isn't too effective. I only had a VZW phone with me (-46 dBm! :browani: ) so I couldn't tell if the site was hot. The A/C was on.

Did you like the shore power cable?

j

Jonathan, I just hope this is a very temporary site. This is ugly.

And, yep, my opinion is that this crate and all equipment in it is grounded through the coiled green wire. The bizarre collection of wooden shims make a bad conductor to ground for the crate.

I hope you're not working for this municipality.

If you keep posting pictures like this, you may bring me over to the dark side.

Gee, Chuikov, I thought you worked for the dark side! :browani:

Nope, not one of my jurisdictions, yet.

j

If you got a -46dbm on your VZW phone it may be a Verizon site!

Andy, actually, the -46 was from the VZW site immediately adjacent to this boxcar. j

Haha, I thought I could be smarter than you are

My friend, smarts come in various shapes and packages. I have mine, you have yours! We're smartest when we pool our various smarts!

j

I hope hope you get the work. The town may be in need of advice.

You are, but just in a different way!

Actually, today I had to go down to Temecula to visit a proposed site. While in the area I re-visited this site and spoke with the 'guy-who-lives-in-the-trailer-next-door' (and who's power is being tapped for the Cell-in-a-Box.

The guy claims he doen't know the owner of the box site. Looking at the site again, though, I think I do.

First, the site is NOT active. No hum, no HVAC, nada! Also, the VZW site immediately adjacent appear to have a new power generator added in front of the BTS building. I suspect the Cell-in-a-box was put here by VZW while its new generator was being installed. Once installed, they likely turned-off the site, but it has yet to be picked-up and moved to its next target.

Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it...for now.

Best,

Jonathan

The story sounds good to me - stick to it. Not surprising either - very wireless.

Efficient disorganizition! or is it -

Inefficient organization!