Turner: MP 218

[crayon]

East bound on the Tuner at the 218 is a tower that sits off to the right, I think it might be OTA's ..

Has anyone else seen, what looks like coax, just blowing in the breeze??

 

[freqscout]

May not be. If you can get the tower reg number from the site or the FCC then you can check that to be sure.

There are several cell towers that have been abandoned and all they did was remove the antennas, base unit, housing, and split. They live the wave guide (high freq coax) just swinging in the breeze. Those sites are common, as I saw at least ten on my trip to Ohio last weekend.

 

[crayon]

I memorized the wrong MP. After I drove by it this morning, I was like doh!

It is actually 208 and it is not a cell tower, AFAI can remember, it has always had a folded dipole type antenna on it.

 

[car2back]

Was it on the hill near Kellyville? (I forgot all my mile-markers )

 

[n5bew1]

If it had VHf DB-224 antennas it could be OTA call sign WDB45 2 mi west 1 mile north of Kellyville.

 

[freqscout]

MM 123 is in OKC and the numbers ascend as you go East so that would put it up in the Kellyville area by my calculations. Might be a good find.

 

[crayon]

I'll take my GPS with me tomorrow.

 

[car2back]

I know where the Creek CO SO repeater is Kellyville; there's some big antenna right next to it....

http://www.antennasearch.com/sitest...ame=txreview&pagenum=1&cmdrequest=pagehandler

 

[crayon]

It would seem as if the site is still unknown. My GPS on the shoulder of 44 said:

N35 57.367 W96 14.220

A 1 mile point radius search on FCC *only* returned:

http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/genmen/uls/uls_call_res.hts?db_id=19&callsign=KCU832

... but that puts it on the west side of 44. If you Google Map the above lat/long and zoom in, you can see a white shed to the right of the cood (abeam the highway and not true north) and you can also make out the shadow of the tower to the left. I think that you can see the shadow of the mast on the highway.

The coax has been blowing in the breeze for quite sometime .. I forget when I first saw it.

 

[Chaos703]

I know where the Creek CO SO repeater is Kellyville; there's some big antenna right next to it....

http://www.antennasearch.com/sitest...ame=txreview&pagenum=1&cmdrequest=pagehandler

That's the coolest website EVER!!!!

 

[iamhere300]

American tower owns a number of sites along I44 that used to have cellular
carriers on them, but do to sales of the companies, the sites were pulled. Most
of the time they just sawzalled the hardline at the building, pulled the
electrical, and moved the building. The sites now sit vacant, waiting for
tenants.

The coax is NOT waveguide - its coax. Waveguide would not last a week
swaying in the wind, the copper thiefs would have it down and stripped.

Waveguide is hollow. Just a hollow tube - if it is coated with black
insulation it is normally eliptical while some sites like former AT&T sites
had a rectangular waveguide - and a round waveguide, without insulation.

Coax has a center conductor - waveguide does not.

 

[iamhere300]

http://tinyurl.com/27oz3c

This is the American tower site close to where you describe.... Probably not the one