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Singlemalt
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This will be cool. How long does it take to climb a 600 ft tower and then climb down? I'd imagine you can only service a max of 2 towers per day?
lokie
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Welcome to the life of "Road Trash" and as my wife described it once "Pond Scum"
I did not climb the towers. My job was the Networks feeding the towers.
Did that for 23 years, I seen some shit!
tangerinegreen555
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Totally cool.
So since you guys have some knowledge of cell towers, explain what happened here 2 days ago.
Wife calls me, I answer and my phone immediately disconnects. We play phone tag for a minute or 2, same result.
I call my other phone (I have 2), same shit.
I text a relative who works for Verizon, he confirms tower is down and says when it's up again you'll have to restart phone. And he had no repair time estimate.
This lasts about an hour, but after the tower is back up you had to power cycle your phone to reacquire the tower again or phone wouldn't connect. And if you didn't know that, you would still have the same problem.
WTF was that all about? Ideas?
So since you guys have some knowledge of cell towers, explain what happened here 2 days ago.
Wife calls me, I answer and my phone immediately disconnects. We play phone tag for a minute or 2, same result.
I call my other phone (I have 2), same shit.
I text a relative who works for Verizon, he confirms tower is down and says when it's up again you'll have to restart phone. And he had no repair time estimate.
This lasts about an hour, but after the tower is back up you had to power cycle your phone to reacquire the tower again or phone wouldn't connect. And if you didn't know that, you would still have the same problem.
WTF was that all about? Ideas?
lokie
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tangerinegreen555
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lokie
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Likely a bad circuit pack in the remote, also a possibility of a pack in the host.
Not often but a combination of multiple unrelated problems present themselves at one time.
That type of troubleshooting can take longer to identify and even longer if spare packs are not onsite.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
I’m more hoping for accounts of encountering adventitious, serendipitous, indeed fortuitous cabin-fevered smokeshows across the Nation’s back 40, and how he got his tower serviced b.i.d.
tyler.durden
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Singlemalt
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gotta start easy first, I'll have a shitload of questions later. Like how does one deal with a territorial raptor 600 ft up
BarnBuster
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tangerinegreen555
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Indagrow
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Maybe 45 mins up I don't rest much, we just replaced a safety climb wire on a 400 that I hauled up on my harness we hit 5 today but it's a young aggressive team
Indagrow
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The lighting would rather go through the tower than me I'm just a flesh blob with resistance.. but still I'll keep an ear to the sky
too larry
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Night Crawler is still up there on the CDT. There has already been one pretty big blizzard. I'm not sure he's going to make to Canada.
Indagrow
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I worked in a blizzard..the snow doesn't stack up on the tower
Singlemalt
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Have you participated in or seen any towers built from the ground up? I'm wondering about cranes in rough country or are they built in short sections?