milan03 Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Looks just like the panels vzw uses in most of michigan(excluding the old alltel areas) for evdo and 1x on 850. Could possibly be metro. I doubt its clearwire. The panels I'm trying to ID are these: I apologize for off topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vryan44 Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 The panels I'm trying to ID are these: I apologize for off topic. Those were what I was referring to, sorry for the confusion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickel Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 So, is the official consensus that Samsung that is going to deploy the TD-LTE RRUs for Alcatel-Lucent markets? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilg740 Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Saw another TD-LTE base station in Bellefontaine Neighbors, MO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S4GRU Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 Saw another TD-LTE base station in Bellefontaine Neighbors, MO. TD-LTE and WiMax base stations look the same. They are not switching out the WiMax base cabinets. They can LTE to them just fine. Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilg740 Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 TD-LTE and WiMax base stations look the same. They are not switching out the WiMax base cabinets. They can LTE to them just fine. Robert Oh i didnt know that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InvalidPassword Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Can I get an expert opinion on this Clearwire(maybe) site. It is in Osseo, MN and about 1.5 weeks ago I spotted some workers up on what I believe is the Clearwire rack. Can any of you experts help identify if these are the new Dual Mode rru's? I apologize for the lack of detail in the pictures, my camcorder has an amazing zoom but doesn't take greatly detailed pictures. I hope this works, I have never uploaded pictures before. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilotimz Posted September 5, 2013 Author Share Posted September 5, 2013 Can I get an expert opinion on this Clearwire(maybe) site. It is in Osseo, MN and about 1.5 weeks ago I spotted some workers up on what I believe is the Clearwire rack. Can any of you experts help identify if these are the new Dual Mode rru's? I apologize for the lack of detail in the pictures, my camcorder has an amazing zoom but doesn't take greatly detailed pictures. I hope this works, I have never uploaded pictures before. Yep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InvalidPassword Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Yep. So to verify, you are saying that these are td-lte and wimax rtus. If so that is great because this site is really close to my work. I pull a - 76 dbm signal on wimax from this site at my desk. Now bring on the triband phones since I am upgrade eligible. :-) Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilotimz Posted September 5, 2013 Author Share Posted September 5, 2013 So to verify, you are saying that these are td-lte and wimax rtus. If so that is great because this site is really close to my work. I pull a - 76 dbm signal on wimax from this site at my desk. Now bring on the triband phones since I am upgrade eligible. :-) Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk 4 Yep. You can not mistake the new Samsung dual mode TD-LTE RRUs unless they're in close proximity with Samsung network vision equipment. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milan03 Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Here is another site with the mysterious panel (on the right) and what appears to be ClearWire's 2.6Ghz band antenna. I'm guessing WiMax? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilotimz Posted September 5, 2013 Author Share Posted September 5, 2013 Here is another site with the mysterious panel (on the right) and what appears to be ClearWire's 2.6Ghz band antenna. I'm guessing WiMax? Most likely. Interesting RF filter they have on that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mflb_purple Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 (edited) What's going on with this site? (pics taken Oct 19th) There was a week where I was only getting -113 to -125dBm and my phone was heating up, in contrast with the usual -90 to -100 dBm. Now it's a nicer -80 to -90dBm. Edited October 28, 2013 by mflb_purple Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrzood Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 Goodby Huawei. Hello Samsung? http://imgur.com/a/XBJpw 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SID3232 Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 I know these pics are not the greatest but I was wondering if anyone would be able tell if this site has been upgraded? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fraydog Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Looks like a ground mount site for Network Vision, but it doesn't look like TD-LTE antennas on any of the antenna racks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zan Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Goodby Huawei. Hello Samsung? http://imgur.com/a/XBJpw I think you are right, only Samsung and Huawei has 4 ports from the Radio Unit. What market is this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belusnecropolis Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Goodby Huawei. Hello Samsung? http://imgur.com/a/XBJpw Protection or co located site? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S4GRU Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Goodby Huawei. Hello Samsung? http://imgur.com/a/XBJpw Protection or co located site? Where was this taken? Those look like PCS only wide beam NV panels, and not Band 41 only panels. I say that because Band 41 should only have one RRU per panel. Whereas a Samsung high capacity site can have two panels per sector with two RRU's per panel. Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belusnecropolis Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Sorry that was my crap browser not operating the quote button correctly, I was asking the same where, what, and how from a couple posts up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrzood Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Where was this taken? Those look like PCS only wide beam NV panels, and not Band 41 only panels. I say that because Band 41 should only have one RRU per panel. Whereas a Samsung high capacity site can have two panels per sector with two RRU's per panel. Robert I'm guessing it's a high capacity site, it has a very good vantage point to a very large area. It's not broadcasting Sprint PCS according to the site maps. When I lived in that area and took the pictures, my Sprint signal strength was bad enough to need an Airrave to hold calls. https://www.google.com/maps?q=29.526259,-98.323048&num=1&t=h&z=19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilotimz Posted February 5, 2014 Author Share Posted February 5, 2014 Where was this taken? Those look like PCS only wide beam NV panels, and not Band 41 only panels. I say that because Band 41 should only have one RRU per panel. Whereas a Samsung high capacity site can have two panels per sector with two RRU's per panel. Robert That's Clearwire with legacy Samsung Wimax rru. You can see it in some of the pics if you zoom in. It's a very thin rru. Sent from my Nexus 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S4GRU Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 That's Clearwire with legacy Samsung Wimax rru. You can see it in some of the pics if you zoom in. It's a very thin rru. Sent from my Nexus 5 That's why I wanted to know where it was at. So I could rule out it being a Samsung NV area. Robert via Samsung Note 8.0 using Tapatalk Pro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zan Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 I'm guessing it's a high capacity site, it has a very good vantage point to a very large area. It's not broadcasting Sprint PCS according to the site maps. When I lived in that area and took the pictures, my Sprint signal strength was bad enough to need an Airrave to hold calls. https://www.google.com/maps?q=29.526259,-98.323048&num=1&t=h&z=19 TX is a samsung and Mot market. Given it's a 4 ports radio unit, it should be Samsung updating it's RRU or some other reasons. The replacement site has a longer antenna which means it's a PCS band antenna. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el1117 Posted April 5, 2014 Share Posted April 5, 2014 I live out in the country. 15 miles east of the nearest decent size city that has a population of about 37,000 (Richmond, Indiana). I didn't think Sprint was adding Band 41 to rural areas that weren't densely populated. However, last week I saw a rope hanging from CI33-----C050. It was getting dark so I could not see the antennas very well. Today, I took my new DSLR camera with me and the top image below is what I observed. The antenna on the right has been there since July 2013. The wider antenna on the left is new. The bottom image is what it looked like in July 2013 after NV antenna was added, but before legacy was removed. In addition, this week, I spoke to and verified a contractor for Time Warner has been running new fiber to the tower for Sprint. So, am I correct in thinking this is new addition is a Band 41 antenna on this tower? (Band 25 & 26 run through the same antenna, and B41 requires an additional antenna, correct?) 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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