New tower in Scotch Plains NJ?

Also, the construction specs are based on computer models of expected coverage.

When the new sites get turned on, there is usually some tweaking of the installations in reaction to actual coverage results.

 

drove past it myself the other day and i saw the same thing.....still no panels.....wtf are they awiting on ?

 

Either they ran into problems with the site or some NIMBY people are taking the whole project to court, I haven't read anything about the 2nd possiblity though.
I haven't been able to talk to my buddy from Fanwood to see if he can give me an update, I will try another angle this week to see if I can get some info.

 

I was by there tonight and still no panels, I went behind the building & there is still a stack of bricks & no door on the building, there are 2 possibilities here 1. they are still waiting on PSE&G to run the power to the building (They do take 3-6 months to get to a site to run power) or 2. the neighbors are fighting the tower & it's held up in the courts.

I do know Mountainside tried to pull a fast 1 last month & now is in court. The Mountainside Elks were approached by Nextel to put a tower up & they said yes, it went to the planning board & was denied, a couple of days later the town approached Nextel & said " we have 2 towers on our property & for the right fee you can put your antenna's on 1 of them"

Well the Elks got wind of it & are going after the town about it, could be interesting to see what happens.

 

Growing up on the northside of scotch plains, we always thought the southside was the richer, stuck up side so it wouldn't suprise me if they got together with some lawyer to file a complaint or something

 

thats funny ! ive lived both sides and agree. used to live on montague now i live off lambertsmill. talk about class change. neway i got so excited when i saw the tower going up but now....i dont know what to think. ill probably be moved by the time they get it on. im probably moving to another part of scotch plains or westfield.

 

Well if you end up in Westfield I did hear Verizon had gotten approval for a tower on a building near the center of town, but the historic society took it to court & won to have it stopped, they are trying to get another location for a tower to help cover the center of town.

 

Anyone have any idea as to what is going on with this tower?

 

I haven't heard anything yet about this. As for the tower in Westfield, I didn't get the exact name or address of the building, but it is considered an Historic building somewhere near the center or in the center of town.
Next time I see the person who told me about it, I will try to remember & ask him which building it was.

 

As per the 5/17/06 Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times:

"The cell tower at Fire Station Number Two in Scotch Plains looks ready to go but final commissioning is a ways off, say officials" :loony:

 

Injunction might be the culprit.

If this is the case, the complainant would have to prove "actual or imminant injury occuring in fact". This would serve only to gain them standing to file for an injunction. It's a very high standard. There are logical and practical reasons for this high standard - specifically so some local crackpot or malcontent cannot abuse the court system to hold up the business of society via an injunction.

I shudder to think of what might have led to an actual injunction, but it surely wouldn't stand the light of day.

I'm hoping there is another explanation for the delay.

 

I doubt it.
That Newspaper would easily know this & jump on printing that sort of information / story .... I'll bet some digging will turn up the "real" reason ....

 

This is nuts, I really would like to know what the delay is. Especially after the tower has been put up & it looks like the power & lines have been brought to the building.
Scotch Plains does have some powerful people living there & who knows if they aren't fighting the tower with an injunction & keeping it out of the paper.

 

Good news!

 

If it's anything like up here in NNJ/NY areas -
2 Panels per sector is either Tmbl or CING - A close look at the 2 panels will tell you if 1 is slightly larger or different, then it's CIN since 1 is 800 & 1 is1900. T mobile's will be 2 identical 1900 panels.
1 Panel per sector is Sprint.
4 Panels per sector is either VZW or NexTel - Usually a close look at the VZW panels will reveal 2 of them (usually the 2 inner ones), are 1900, & a little different or thinner than the other 2, Nextel are 4 Identical 800 panels.
There are exceptions, but this holds true for the majority of newer sites installed in this market....

 

Yes it's VZW.
It can sometimes take up to 4 weeks from when panels are first installed on the pole, so be patient.

 

You already waited more than 13 months,
what's another 4 weeks.

 

Finally. Now maybe I'll be able to use my phone on south side of Scotch Plains when this is up and running.

 

I was told today that Sprint plans on putting Antenna's on this tower as well.

 

I guess it depends on where in that area you are with Cingular, I have been at the college inside with good coverage, I think Cingular has antenna's on the power towers by the nursing home.
I am sure the more you go towards Rt 22 the signal may get weaker, by the nursery then better as you get closer to Rt. 27 and Rt. 22.

I am suprised they haven't put more antenna's on the power line towers that go thru that area.