Amherst
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Seen this Water Tower lately? On Route 101A just west of Wallmart in Amherst is this old Water Tower. Located just off Nashua Road, this tower was originally the host for only one cell array back in 1997-1998 (it was Bell Atlantic Mobile/Verizon). Today it hosts other arrays and Verizon is no longer on this tower. These three photos are old (before the USCC array was added in July 2003). See the new photos below... In July 2003 US Cellular added a new cell site here for their CDMA 2000 1XRTT Rollout. |
T-Mobile Cingular Sprint PCS US Cellular (CDMA 1XRTT ONLY) |
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A close up of the new US Cellular 8-foot paddle antennas that they are using for their 3rd Generation CDMA 2000 1XRTT deployment in this area of New Hampshire. The two paddles are at the bottom of the photo, and just above it is their GPS receiver antenna. pbw adds in July 2004: The GPS antenna has probably been placed by the antenna
at the top of the structure to get a consistently better view of the
sky. You are correct, most times the GPS |
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A photo of the telephone pole which
feeds this site. There seem to bee three large trunks of cable from
Verizon feeding this site. You can see that the closest conduit is the
shiniest and was added for the new USCC deployment. |
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A close-up shot of the new cable bundle. With the size of it being so big, I would suspect that this is not a fiber run, but then again, I'm no expert on how big the fiber runs are "out in the real world". Could be copper, could be fiber. Perhaps someone knows for sure? pbw adds in July 2004: I think its fiber. The PE-22 is probably manufacture-cable
type? PE looks like it could be Pirelli. On the other hand in the
above picture the line goes through a copper punch down |
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A view of the site looking North: the right side which has the T-Mobile BTS next to it's own telephone pole, and the left side, with a newly constructed expansion for the US Cell BTS, plus Sprint and Cingular's BTS structures. The water tower certainly can use a facelift on this side. Lots of rust showing on it's south lower face. |
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A closer view of the tower and it's 3 PCS carriers (on top) and the new USCC deployment (at the bottom row). The top most carrier is T-Mobile. The 2nd row is Cingular, the 3rd row is Sprint PCS. 4th row = USCC CDMA |
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The gate sign for the site. You can see it's Site ID #: NAS 161 |
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Power meters closest to the gate.
The IWO meter appears to be for the red light on top of the tower. This
water tower is within a flight path for Nashua's Airport. |
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Power panels and meter for the T-Mobile BTS. A wide-angle shot of the power panels, power meter, and the BTS (on the right). |
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A nice shot of the East Side (shaded
at 5pm) of the water tower. |
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The Sprint PCS BTS. |
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Side angle shot of the new US Cellular 3G CDMA BTS and power panel. You can see the antenna coax feed run underground to the left of this first photo.
The 2nd photo is a close up of the label on the power panel.
The 3rd photo is a wide angle shot of the USCC BTS. Two racks for the BTS equipment (Nortel CDMA cabinets), and the rack on the far right appears to be a battery rack for the UPS's. You can see the conduit with the antenna coax re-surface next to the base of the water tower. 3 conduits total. Somewhere mixed in there is the coax for the GPS receiver antenna as well.
The last photo shows the Nortel CDMA cabinets in all their glory. |
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The Cingular BTS configuration, with the traditional TDMA setup. pbw writes in July 2004: Its Cingular Wireless (GSM) and Cingular Wireless TDMA. You have a very unusual setup from my experience. On the left is the GSM cabinet an Ericsson RBS 2106 probbaly. The grey stuff on the right are Lucent cabinets. Down here (in the VA area) they are used by PrimeCo/Sprint PCS for CDMA. I've never seen them for TDMA. Also shouldn't one of those BTSs be decomissioned?
Why would Cingular operate a seperate BTS for TeleCorp PCS and Cingular
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Amherst
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FAKE PINE TREE! PCS Tower on Rt 101 at the Route 122 Exit, at 23 Growling Lane. This tower, disguised as a pine tree was constructed on 11/15/2002 and currently only has one provider on it. A lookup of the FFC structures in Amherst shows that this tower is owned by Omnipoint Holdings, Inc (T-Mobile). FCC Registration ID / Type: 1234578 / TOWER
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Amherst
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ANOTHER FAKE PINE TREE Walnut Hill tower disguised as yet another pine tree. Constructed and erected in 2001, this hill provides a wide area of coverage due to it's elevation. Wireless providers struggled for years with the town of Amherst to get this site. For many years, much of Amherst, and sections of Bedford and Merrimack had no coverage until this tower was established. Updated July '04: Chris emailed and stated that Cingular
is also present on this tower. FCC ID: 1213842 / TOWER |
Verizon Wireless U.S. Cellular (TDMA and CDMA) Others? |
Amherst
Cell Tower |
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Monpole Someplace near Dodge Road in Amherst
is a Monopole that I just recently noticed while driving south
on Rt 101. This is adjacent to Walnut Hill. I will need to do some
exploring to find who the carrier is.
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