As far as the Jeanette site, there is no evidence of pending construction along any of the well-travelled roads in that area. The approved area is pretty vague, since they didn't mention a specific road name. Maybe you can come up with one. LOL
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Oh......hehe
Coordinates listed on the registration should put it at about 430 Cranfield Rd. About 0.8 mile north of the intersection of Jeanette, Cranfield, and Liberty roads.
It should be around 400 ft. to the west of Cranfield Rd. and easily visible from the roadway.
Coming from the intersection of U.S. 84 and Cranfield Rd. it should be about 4.8 miles south of U.S. 84
Coordinates listed on the registration should put it at about 430 Cranfield Rd. About 0.8 mile north of the intersection of Jeanette, Cranfield, and Liberty roads.
It should be around 400 ft. to the west of Cranfield Rd. and easily visible from the roadway.
Coming from the intersection of U.S. 84 and Cranfield Rd. it should be about 4.8 miles south of U.S. 84
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Ah well, I've been doing range circles on all my plotted tower locations and it seems that one is a little redundant anyway. With 12 mile rings on all the other sites in the area the whole area is pretty much covered completely allready. Seems you should have really, REALLY good coverage over that way when they're all up an running.
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No doubt the coverage, with all the over lapping, will be super. I honestly can't even believe there'll be a need for vehicular repeaters. Just a simple WT unit should be able to hit just about any of the towers in this area.
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Yeah I belive that is the goal. Something like 95% coverage for HT's. Seems that's going to be a pretty lofty goal here on the coast though. Especially in southwest Hancock County. It really seems like there should be a site down that way to me.
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OH and while I'm thinking about it. The range info I've submitted for the sites is primarily for the purpose of controlling GPS enabled scanners as seamlessly as possible while traveling the state. By no means should these ranges be indicative of actual reception. Actual reception range should be even more for most sites in reality.
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Hugh with future updates please submit them with the submission button or pm me with them so we dont lose me in the mass lol
OK updated thus far... now get me some tg's lol... WEG
AS to the actual ranges of reception, with these towers from 400 to nearly 600 feet high, and at least 100 to 110 watts possibly more of output power... (Have YET to find any info on this in ANY databases) Expect ranges in the 50 mile range minmum. According to official statements, an HT leaving Jackson had coverage for over 50 miles, then a small area of dead air, then picked up coverage again, and a mobile had full coverage from Jackson down to the coast on Highway 49.... So they are doing awesome job on the coverage issues... Contract is for 95% to 97% mobile coverage of the whole state. This would mean at least 70% HT coverage.... Add in the MHP and MDOT vehicular repeaters and that increases the HT coverage massively for their areas.... I would hazzard a guess that there will also be 700 MHz conventional repeaters placed strategically in the state once all is said and done.
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Hattiesburg tower is an Microwave control point.... The repeaters ring it. The other towers near are both MS DPS towers for the existing systems, one of the SEMAAD towers, and the ever present Cellular South and Verizon towers LOL.
Actually thats not. That may be one of the nearest repeaters, but the actual H'burg site is not a repeater, it is an MCC... The primary tower is an microwave site only, the other sites in P1 are repeaters and fixed input sites to that site, and to the MCC in the Jackson area. The P3 MCC will also be just an microwave tower. Your master sites are just control centers, with repeaters all attached to them. I suspect the only MCC with a repeater as part of it is the MSOW. This may be a pic of the old FEMA repeater site back when it was the primary tower. Now this does raise a question.... If we know for sure of the possibility of 46 repeaters in the phase... if we add in the MWT's.... Does that actually bring the tally up to nearer 50 something???
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Right place, wrong tower. Like I said the MWIN tower is the TAPERED tower just a little west (as best I could tell from the road) of that one. That is the Cellular South tower.
The tower at H'burg is an taper design like Doloroso.. we have pics of what the design looks like.. but I can't shrink it small enough to attach lol.
Thanks for the correction.
My mistake .... as that is the only tower shown at those coordinates, but it didn't dawn on me until after I posted that its actually a new tower. I live about 5 miles from the location so I will try to get over there after that road has time to dry up.
My mistake .... as that is the only tower shown at those coordinates, but it didn't dawn on me until after I posted that its actually a new tower. I live about 5 miles from the location so I will try to get over there after that road has time to dry up.
see your pm...
Sites "strange" locations... To answer this riddle see your newest MDOT Highways Map....Youl soon find the reason for a lot of the locations....
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Yeah I was looking at google earth and started to figure that must be an old pic. The construction date listed is 9/18/2008. The new tower would be in that pic if it was a year old or so.
Strange but yes they are pretty much that close to each other. I imagine the registered co-ordinates are rounded off a bit too.
Strange but yes they are pretty much that close to each other. I imagine the registered co-ordinates are rounded off a bit too.
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If you find the head end of that little dirt road you'll see it clear as day from the black-top. It's huge and shiny and hard to miss. LOL the Cellular South tower is a little to the left of it behind some larger trees and a bit harder to see but still visible.
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