dietermoreno
- Dec 30, 2012
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How to identify a 4G tower?
I see many new towers going up around me, and I am wondering which ones are 4G.
Somewhere I found on the internet I found that you can tell the 4G tower by it has satelitte dishes on top instead of the normal cell phone tower antenna which I found somewhere on the internet that the normal cell phone tower antenna is a 2x12 array of UHF dipoles covered by a white or grey plastic covering and there are usually four 2x12's for every cell.
but then I found also on the internet that you can build your own 4G antenna for $10 out of coat hangers and electrical conduit (not including the feedlines which probably cost alot more than building the antenna), and it says that the coat hangers are cut to UHF!
but if the 4G transmissions use UHF, why would they use a sattelite dish, which a sattelite dish is for microwaves like the K-band?
or it could be that the "DIY 4G antenna" is actually a misunderstanding of a 3G EVO antenna?
or it could be that the "sattelite dish cell tower 4G antenna" is actually a misunderstanding of a sattelite dish used for something else?
The internet is full of misunderstandings about everything?
I see many new towers going up around me, and I am wondering which ones are 4G.
Somewhere I found on the internet I found that you can tell the 4G tower by it has satelitte dishes on top instead of the normal cell phone tower antenna which I found somewhere on the internet that the normal cell phone tower antenna is a 2x12 array of UHF dipoles covered by a white or grey plastic covering and there are usually four 2x12's for every cell.
but then I found also on the internet that you can build your own 4G antenna for $10 out of coat hangers and electrical conduit (not including the feedlines which probably cost alot more than building the antenna), and it says that the coat hangers are cut to UHF!
but if the 4G transmissions use UHF, why would they use a sattelite dish, which a sattelite dish is for microwaves like the K-band?
or it could be that the "DIY 4G antenna" is actually a misunderstanding of a 3G EVO antenna?
or it could be that the "sattelite dish cell tower 4G antenna" is actually a misunderstanding of a sattelite dish used for something else?
The internet is full of misunderstandings about everything?