Howdy!

We have returned to our homebase at Escapees in Livingston after being gone for over six months. Now I see all the signs throughout the Escapees “No 300’ cellular tower at Care”. Can anyone update me on what this is referring to. 

“Happy Trails”

Chiefneon

Edited October 2 by chiefneon

Hey Gary, welcome back. Bruce Horton did a nice write up on the project a while back. There is a 10 yr contract with CARE for the tower, $1k a month. Some I guess are afraid it will cause brain damage or make them sterile. Probably to late on both accounts. Some of us are rooting for the project.

    We enjoy our winter home base at Jojoba Hills in Southern California.  Our resort has a Verizon tower which is designed to look like one of our pine trees . . . we hardly notice it and it brings in nearly two thousand dollars a month in revenue while affording those of us in the resort excellent cellular reception. 

It'll be the only 300' pine tree in Texas.  ?

  On 10/2/2019 at 9:25 AM, chirakawa said:

It'll be the only 300' pine tree in Texas.  ?

Nah. It will more like be a palm tree.

Linda

There are much worse things to worry about other than a cell tower.  If the tower is not put up, everyone will complain about poor cell coverage.  You cannot have a good signal and no tower.

Ken

We have one of those "Pine tree cell towers" at the Muskegon MI Elks Lodge RV park/campground.  Actually glad it is there as that helped fill a huge cellular dead zone.  Plus, it brings in revenue as the cellular company rents that space, covers the utilities for that space, and helps keep the main road in good repair so that they can access it. The tower is not in the area where the sites are either.  

I'm so sick of the very same people complaining about towers, and complaining about poor cell service.  Idiots.  I live in a spot that used to have no usable service.  Some neighbors went around asking people to sign a petition against towers going in nearby.  I'm happy that most refused and some even campaigned against them.  The towers are shaped like giant saguaros, and unlike the palm trees, they blend in perfectly.  There's no way you'd know they were towers unless you got close to them.

  On 10/3/2019 at 12:08 AM, Carlos said:

I'm so sick of the very same people complaining about towers, and complaining about poor cell service.  Idiots.  

We had that happen in our old neighborhood with power poles. People want the power but not the poles. You can't have it both ways, people.

Linda

LOL!!  Now, our area has underground power.  People complained about a sidewalk being cut up to add lights to our park.  Sigh.

  On 10/2/2019 at 8:19 AM, dewilso said:

Hey Gary, welcome back. Bruce Horton did a nice write up on the project a while back. There is a 10 yr contract with CARE for the tower, $1k a month. Some I guess are afraid it will cause brain damage or make them sterile. Probably to late on both accounts. Some of us are rooting for the project.

Do you have a link to Bruce's article?

Will the tower really be 300 ft. tall? It's unusual to have a cell tower that large in an area with any kind of population because it simply covers too much area for a single cell.  Also, anything above 199 ft. in height usually requires aviation obstruction lighting and orange and white stripes for visibility.  Towers below 200 ft. height are exempt unless they're within the glide path of an airport.

Edited October 3 by Lou Schneider

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Edited November 5 by noteven

  On 10/2/2019 at 8:19 AM, dewilso said:

Hey Gary, welcome back. Bruce Horton did a nice write up on the project a while back. There is a 10 yr contract with CARE for the tower, $1k a month. Some I guess are afraid it will cause brain damage or make them sterile. Probably to late on both accounts. Some of us are rooting for the project.

Howdy!

Dave, thanks if it will improve the AT&T coverage I’m all for it and it is much needed.

” Happy Trails “

Chiefneon

Edited October 3 by chiefneon

The one game changer might be if they install the new 5g technology on the tower. They are 1000 times more powerful than the old cell transmitters. This technology is new, and many fear the high power of these devices will have many health risks. The old towers had risks that many debated. I don't think there will be much debate about this new stuff once it gets in and people start having problems.

Edited October 5 by Muskoka Guy

  On 10/5/2019 at 11:25 PM, Muskoka Guy said:

They are 1000 times more powerful than the old cell transmitters.

This is completely false fear-mongering from people who know nothing.  The same people who are flat earthers and anti-vaxx nuts.  It's not just ridiculously false, but backwards.  The current cell towers produce around 20-40 watts depending on need, while 5G towers are far less than that.  They could be as low as 5w, and as far as I know, never above 30.  So, already, less power.  The 1000 times more...LOL!  On top of that, radios in handsets go dormant when they are not busy.  If it takes a long time to transfer data, the radio is active for a longer time.  Since 5G can transfer the data much more quickly, you will actually be exposed to an active radio for a shorter time.

Please stop listening to mainstream media and/or conspiracy nuts on tech stuff.  You can just easily research the raw facts and see that claims like 1000x more powerful are bogus.