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Maybe for a base station that's just sitting on the ground. But to actually be useful, wouldn't it need an antenna mast that's taller than the surrounding trees

• PaulHoule 4y ago
  There is a base station on top of my hill (which has a road) but cell phone coverage seems poor to nonexistent. The base station involves large gravel pad, a solid (as opposed to space frame) tower that must have required a crane to erect, a large multi-sector antenna, an equipment building about the size of a singlewide mobile home, a diesel generator and a chain link fence. Mao's Red Army might have moved that much with a mule train in the 1930s but I don't think anybody is doing that without a road today.
  • coryrc 4y ago
    And by my house there's two different companies sharing a tower with all non-pole-mounted equipment in an 8'x8' shed plus generator. You could have the generator and batteries by the nearest road instead of at the antenna site. But that would require a non-oligopoly with cost pressure and lack of regulatory capture.
  • mickdeek86 4y ago
    Would a Sigorsky be feasible? Not an idle question, I type this from a remote Aleutian island in sight of a 4000+ foot peak and no infrastructure to get a tower there.
• coryrc 4y ago
  Poles are often made of trees. You don't have to kill it first to use it.