Mountain Top Radio Tower Antenna Farm - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Homer J Simpson
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 11, 2016, 01:40:09 pm
content: Interesting. No audio, just cool to watch. Pretty high density cluster of transmitters and receivers.

author: GEuser
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 11, 2016, 02:04:55 pm
content: Nice view , there are a few of those in this district around here in rural , all on prime real estate hills (antenna wise) .I'm often astounded when watching the news or whatever on TV , in some places around the world as one see's in the background of some of the reports (there was one the other night in Turkey) real large antennas for TV and broadcasting and the likes dotted on every hill available and like the other night there was several large hills in the shot for miles in the background full of vertical arrays when it panned some 90 degrees .

author: Mechanical Menace
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 11, 2016, 03:29:03 pm
content: What exactly would an installation like this be used for? It can't be for mobile phones/data but all that for TV and radio seems overkill in 2016.

author: klunkerbus
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 11, 2016, 04:21:09 pm
content: Don't assume this installation is all part of one effort. Looks to me like an area where local authorities require all antennas to be co-located on one high spot rather than have them sprinkled across the countryside. Lots of services here, but I see mostly omnidirectional VHF antennas and microwave terrestrial relays.

author: calexanian
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 11, 2016, 05:08:55 pm
content: +1 for VHF UHF in both omni and directional and a butt load of microwave link. Farms like that are common on mountain tops located near cities or linking two sides of a ridge.

author: AF6LJ
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 11, 2016, 07:07:30 pm
content: That looks like one of the sites here in San Diego.I have been to most of them although San Migual is somewhat dangerous, not just for the snakes but also the high RF fields. Stay outside too long and the migraine headaches will begin and you will have been hearing things for a time.http://www.fybush.com/site-20140207/Mt. Otay isn't much better, the snakes are larger.

author: station240
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 11, 2016, 10:25:44 pm
content: TV/Radio transmitters tend to be co-located for the simple reason home owners only have one antenna to point somewhere.The rest will be things like:Cell phone microwave linksFire, ambulance, etc.TV station have multiple studio sites, more equipment need to receive it. Don't forget mobile crews and their pole mounted microwave link.Consumer radio, eg HF, CB radio.Taxi companies.The Cell phone/mobile phone companies tend to co-locate where practical as less approval paperwork to get antennas fixed to existing towers/buildings.One of my local councils has a crazy amount of stuff bolted to their own roof, as a result of being greedy and taking money from anyone.

author: LabSpokane
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 11, 2016, 11:04:50 pm
content: High ground with power and access is precious space. Virtually every tower site is multi-use and will have spaced leased out to a dozen or dozens of firms, each with their own comms gear. That place has everything from microwave back hauls to cellular to land mobile radio. It looks like there may even be a small radar or pointable antenna in one of the domes.I'm glad I'm not the one who has to manage the frequency allocations and interference issues. That's a busy busy site.Edit: I'm not seeing any obvious television transmitters. But there's a ton of LMR sticks on there. Normally, you'll see those omnis in pairs for diversity, but I've not seen so many in rows before. Maybe they're all receive on one row and transmit above.There's also a few Yagis on there that are likely for telemetry.