While at a local church, where my neices were having a piano recital ... I discovered that the church also concealed a cell tower.
This led to a discussion about such towers. It seems that the number of cell tower will likely drop substantially in the next few years. The reason is a direct consequence of our conversion to digital TV.
The old TV wavebad will be assigned to cell uses - with the difference being that the TV bands have much greater range - as much as 4x. This means that one tower will be able to replace 50.
Now ... that means that 49 towers will be decomissioned. I want to point out that each of those abandoned towers has a generator - which will turn up on the surplus market.
Folks, we're going to be installing a heck of a lot of used generators in the next few years - and a large number are likelly to be Generac.
Generac has a reputation of being cheap to instal, and difficult / expensive to maintain .... with plenty of proprietary parts.
You have been warned ...
