To Build a Tower: Part 5b - Topping Out 192' !!!

Here JK slowly seats the top section by applying weight. Each time you hear the yelling, the section is seated further on the section below.

We are now "topped out" at 192 feet!


The topping out took place on Saturday November 17th, 2007 at approximately 2:30PM

This tower site was designed for Mid-Atlantic Broadband Cooperative (mbc-va.com), by RAF Wireless LLC (rafwireless.com).

The tower is located in Appomattox VA & will support Last Mile fiber connectivity for Digital Bridge's WiMAX deployment around
Appomattox, called BridgeMAXX. See the next in a series about building a tower site.

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[dbootsthediva]

Are you able to see the energy radiating

off the objects? I am finding lots of

energy radiating off of lots of objects

like metal and wire and also non metal objects

too.

[Rafmanne]

No, there is no radiation coming off of it... There are no transmitters present right now.

I have seen people confused about seeing poles give off heat radiation. Same reason why Yellow Jackets swarm around towers in October/November because of the heat collected by the steel....

Got Tin Foil?

[dbootsthediva]

I didn't say heat radiation did I. I said energy radiating off of the

metal. You ever consider that energy can radiate

without it being connected to electricity. Not all energy is heated. Wireless transmissions are a different type of energy. Heck Sirrius and Blutooth Technologys are

not even regulated yet, wonder why.

[Rafmanne]

Regulate what? No, I don't wonder why... I know. I have worked in wireless for 35 years & have worked on many frequencies for transmission & reception. You do not "hurt" anything unless you run microwave oven type power levels, close to you.

The object is to get transmitter higher up, as high as possible. I'm going to keep building them.

You just promise to change your tinfoil hat once a week & we'll get along just fine...

Good to go?

[Unleaded123]

I assume once the weight is applied it's straight all the way from top to bottom.

A video of the whole thing finished from top to bottom would be great :-D

[Rafmanne]

I will video the overall tower or insert a photo into video showing the finished project.

I appreciate your input. Please keep watching...

Thank you!

[jaa93997]

@kaytwentytwo max power transmitted from your phone to the site (uplink) is 600 mW and that depends on the phone´s technology. 20 miles is a pussy distance, you can jump a lot more.........

[jaa93997]

@lightsabre6 if what you say is true then what you really need are explosives and not a fairy tale substance

[jaa93997]

@beansderek lol only if ur wife calls you on the phone........ pretty mind altering lol

[jaa93997]

why a 192 ft monopole? isn´t that too much for such a tower? where i live it is prohibited to raise monopoles above 120 or so. It is however, pretty sick when the metal expands with the heat, and reseats the monopole to its final position.....

[Atomic101Heli]

Exacly, as long as your not in front of it 3 feet your perfectly fine, now if your infront of it you might get cooked

[beansderek]

I wish that stupid people would learn about cell towers instead of posting stupid comments about them . There is no harmful or mind alturing rays comming out of these towers or systems

[isaacu]

I have som pics of my wireless isp on here and on my website.

[lightsabre6]

the guys who work on these towers should carry Orgonite on them all the time, and leave some Orgonite on the ground near each tower.

these towers are there to transmit frequencies debilitating to the human brain, to make us all easy to control or kill in the event of martial law (which the NWO is trying to implement).

Orgonite nullifies this effect.

yeah, yeah, I know... wear the tin foil hat

that line has gotten very old and the people are WAKING UP!! :-)

[9sec2valve]

Nice job.

[kaytwentytwo]

I find wireless transmission really interesting! It's a neat concept to think that your tiny phone is sending a signal to a tower that is a mile or so away. It's even neater that we can broadcast data 20+ miles away using microwaves and stuff.

I am taking a Cisco networking course in school and know lots about routers, switches, etc. Is there any way you can film the inside of the main station? I've always wondered what the inner-workings of the ISDN/fiber optic network is!