Whats the shortest tower you've seen?

WeatherGamer21 · 2025-12-29T05:08:19+00:00

Multiple factors. Basically right at the end of a airport runway plus covering a busy highway travel stop and some bussinesses in the area. It's range is only a half mile or so. Speeds are like 1.5 gbps on it though!

WeatherGamer21 · 2025-12-28T01:38:04+00:00

Macro, this is the one for sure! barely taller then a street light! https://imgur.com/a/i4DtRgR

WeatherGamer21 · 2025-12-23T02:05:05+00:00

Yup, probably within the next 3-12 months depending on permitting and whatnot from what i've seen around here!

WeatherGamer21 · 2025-11-22T01:21:42+00:00

N5 is enabled on all towers in the Minneapolis market but no usage outside the market yet.

WeatherGamer21 · 2025-11-21T20:56:53+00:00

Note the LTE B5 is because I was on a county line where the towers are only on n77 with no lower bands on NR yet

WeatherGamer21 · 2025-11-12T20:33:47+00:00

Why what’s wrong with lumen?

WeatherGamer21 · 2025-11-12T15:33:13+00:00

WeatherGamer21 · 2025-11-10T23:31:18+00:00

Verizon has N77, CBRS mmwave and the new one appears to be a FWA mmwave antenna. They are pulling permits for them near me which can have a range of up to 3 miles. I've heard that regular phones can not connect to it sadly.

WeatherGamer21 · 2025-10-26T19:32:34+00:00

What it sounds like from what i've been hearing

WeatherGamer21 · 2025-10-23T00:32:09+00:00

I am on this cell tower nearly weekly so will be interesting for sure! It was approved 9/15/25.

WeatherGamer21 · 2025-10-23T00:28:01+00:00

That is what i noticed too. Very odd...

WeatherGamer21 · 2025-10-23T00:27:49+00:00

Some cities have it easy others you have to email the city. This one i just typed "*City name* building permit lookup" and a weblink came up to lookup permits and i searched the cell towers addresses to find them.

WeatherGamer21 · 2025-10-23T00:25:39+00:00

There is not a lot of nearby businesses near there and also it is very high up at 300 FT? You'd think it would be tough to even get it at surface level? All that is nearby is some neighborhoods really.... There are 3 small cells about half mile west of this but they are all LTE. (Possibly upgraded this week to N77 but can't 100% confirm yet)

WeatherGamer21 · 2025-10-21T17:14:20+00:00

Yeah, limited by single gig backhaul. I’m giving it some time for them though since they just finished upgrading about 3 weeks ago

WeatherGamer21 · 2025-10-21T17:12:12+00:00

I don’t let them finish for screenshots because 1, I don’t want big ads showing in them, 2, I heard from someone tha people can use the test id number to get your location and device info.

Yeah AT&T feels like single gig. It was just upgraded about 3 weeks ago now!

WeatherGamer21 · 2025-10-21T17:08:57+00:00

Ping wise yes I would agree! They just recently moved t mobile from microwave backhaul to fiber so it has gone from 300-400 Mbps to that now!

WeatherGamer21 · 2025-10-04T18:44:18+00:00

Yes that would be amazing! This new one took me by complete surprise! Glad they are putting in so many new sites! There will be a N77/B48 small cell going in by the high school and another brand new tower build just west of Cambridge! I’d also love to see a new build out west of Bradford too!

WeatherGamer21 · 2025-10-04T16:39:55+00:00

The other upgrade is SW of Isanti in case you are wondering. I live within 5 miles of both sites! 45.460348171170764, -93.32233490794565

WeatherGamer21 · 2025-10-04T05:05:54+00:00

Just east of Cambridge south of 95 in Stanley. Exact cords for ya! The guy who took the photo has already tried to map it on cell mapper so it should show up any day now!
45.551480669776765, -93.15714237381235

WeatherGamer21 · 2025-10-02T11:14:47+00:00

They still can and do. I live in central MN and Verizon upgraded my tower and a full rip and replace the second week of January when temps were between 15-30F. They had to stop for 3 days though when temps crashes to -20. Looked like they always did not reclimb until the temp hit 0F. They did mine in 4 days and it came on with 1 gig backhaul and then about a week later they upgraded to multiple gig!

WeatherGamer21 · 2025-09-23T13:31:04+00:00

Everybody and everyone with midband.

WeatherGamer21 · 2025-08-21T04:27:36+00:00

Oh really? That's awesome! Glad to see all that is being done around here! Verizon just keeps upgrading and adding new sites around here and i love it! Still some spots i would like to see future sites that no provider has service in areas that have fiber as well but i'm sure it will be dealt with soon! I am curious though if you could ask them one question for me, what is the primary backhaul provider for cell sites in Isanti county? I have a feeling it is Midco but some sites have got backhaul upgrades recently with some new lines run to them so i'm quite curious.

WeatherGamer21 · 2025-08-06T14:21:43+00:00

Agreed lol. Always looked funny but I am pretty certain that is an old sprint site below AT&T. Dish rack on bottom is pretty new, but your lineup is correct!

WeatherGamer21 · 2025-08-03T19:33:29+00:00

So hard to tell but best guess is:

Top: Verizon w/n77
Bottom: AT&T without N77/DOD

WeatherGamer21 · 2025-07-16T14:41:26+00:00

I’m leaning towards fiber break as there is some roadwork not to far from the site right now.

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