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SOUTH U.S. -- School system sees revenue with cell towers

Discussion in 'Wireless News' started by QLR, Jan 23, 2009.

  1. QLR

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    Cell towers a boon for Cobb schools | ajc.com

    From this article, Cobb County (a suburban county near Atlanta) has allowed 17 cell towers to go up on school grounds. In most of the towers are T-Mobile's and they are getting $270K total over 5 years and can get $800/month for any additional antennae placed on the tower.

    The reaction has been positive for the most part... after all, money is money. Of course, you get the paranoid and the NIMBYs, though. One community managed to block a tower because it would have been "too close to a play area". Not all the towers are camoflaged. The newest one will sport a local high school logo.
     
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    The most radiation is the few yards right in front of the antenna pannels. A really tall monopole like this shouldn't pose any RF dangers for anyone below it. Actually, it's probably safer, since peoples phones transmit at lower powers when the antenna is close by...

    ...also nice to hear the American Cancer Society admitting cell phones don't pose cancer risks :)

    PS- Are there 3 antenna pannels in each sector? What kind of configuration is that? I can understand 2 for space diversity, but why 3? Maybe 2 GSM1900 and one UMTS1700?
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    not all sectors have one tx and a rx diversity antenna for example Nextel usually uses 3 rx diversity and tx antennas per sector. You transmit and recieve off of all three antennas.
     
    #3 jeremy2027, Jan 25, 2009
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    Thats pretty intresting. We have wind towers on our places around in this area and we gain alot of money off of them. It's somewhat like how the school has the cell towers on theirs.
     
    #4 MasterC, Jan 26, 2009
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