By actual HAM operators who are actually in California. This case is about one guy who thinks he should be able to hang his repeaters on cell towers and not pay the fee.
I work for a company that owns and manages about 45,000 or so cell towers. Nobody puts anything on them without paying the fees.
No one. Not even the government.
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re: “I work for a company that owns and manages about 45,000 or so cell towers.”
Cell towers - wrong answer anyway.
They are too low to give wide area coverage.
After all, this is C-E-L-L-U-L-A-R meaning coverage is broken down into CELLS of specific size (8 miles used to be the norm) ...
Former AT&TWS RF eng here.
Thanks Lurker. Appreciate you passing that on. I don't get to talk to my friends out there in "7 Land" in CA much anymore due to being restricted to an attic antenna these days.
Do you have a reference I can read. I’m a ham operator and would like the full skinny if I can.
Maybe the government should pay for him since he is operating emergency work for free. Or maybe the company you work for should donate repeater space for emergency work and if the operator doesn’t use it properly, then deny him. It would look good for the company to advertise it.
rwood