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Challenge... ugliest and prettiest phone mast
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DevonBloke
23-02-2015
Originally Posted by steffangl:
“My nearest mast is this ancient omnidirectional Voda 2G mast.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.51...2Q-Q!2e0?hl=en

It was upgraded to EDGE in 2010. Surprisingly for Voda in general, but even more surprisingly for an omnidirectional site in a built up area, it is the fastest EDGE cell I've ever used. Ping always around 300ms and 200kbps down, 50 up. There's something quite nostalgic about it if nothing more ”

One of those here on the turn off to Lee Mill Tescos coming back from Plymouth..
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.38...y7koHESB1w!2e0
DevonBloke
23-02-2015
Does any EDGE actually work?
Was in Morrisons in Totnes the other day with my cousin. She was trying to do some internet related thing and it wasn't working (I do keep telling her to go EE but she won't have it).
There was me with 3G and probably 10-15 meg and when I asked her what was at the top of the screen she said " it says Vodafone E".
Nothing was happening. To be fair this happens on EE as well.
Vod have EDGE'd all the mast down here but it doesn't seem to actually work.
RAN Man
23-02-2015
Bugger this street view malarkey. With my eyesite I like the "vintage" close ups!

http://www.prattfamily.demon.co.uk/mikep/photind.htm
DevonBloke
23-02-2015
No one likes a smart arse!!!
Hahahaha
Joking...... joking.....
Thank you.
RAN Man
23-02-2015
And a genuine nomination.

http://binged.it/1LzAqIV
DevonBloke
23-02-2015
Now that is cool. Not sure if ugly or pretty.
What is it?
RAN Man
23-02-2015
Originally Posted by DevonBloke:
“Now that is cool. Not sure if ugly or pretty.
What is it?”

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purdown_BT_Tower
DevonBloke
23-02-2015
Thanks.
rasseru16
23-02-2015
2 nice and discreet flagpole type masts, one for O2 and Another one for MBNL 3/EE.

http://goo.gl/maps/3oszb
DevonBloke
23-02-2015
Originally Posted by rasseru16:
“2 nice and discreet flagpole type masts, one for O2 and Another one for MBNL 3/EE.

http://goo.gl/maps/3oszb”

Nice! Don't mention flag pole mast to me.
It's a sticking point down here..
I'll elaborate shortly..
DevonBloke
23-02-2015
Stoke Gabriel is a famous not spot.. big time!!
All networks... nothing!
William of Orange held the first English parliament in Parliament house here on the way to Stoke Gabriel from Totnes...
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.42...SSVDO6oqPg!2e0
A close up of the stone... You can see "William price of Orange to have his first parliament"
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.42...SSVDO6oqPg!2e0

Back in the day Orange (how fitting) wanted to replace the flagpole on the church with a flagpole mast (a proper flagpole as well, with a real flag and everything) and obviously pay the church for it.
What happened? Some "friends" of ours (when I was married) were incomers to the village and were altogether too Totnesy for my liking.
Bloody yoghurt weavers. Got a group together and got the mast blocked. Why? Because it would quite obviously fry their children's brains in the school nearby. Clueless Arses!!
The funny bit is they had a mobile (on Vod I think) that they would have to go outside and stand on one leg to get to work.
I tried to explain once that in fact the mobile handset pumping out it's maximum 1 watt of power right next to their brain was far more dangerous than the mast that would at a distance of perhaps 500 metres and putting out what, 40 watts (think 40 watt light bulb). By the time it got to them would be far to dispersed to do anything bad.
Plus their mobile would only need to put out a few milliwatts and would be far safer next to their head.
They quite obviously didn't get it and I just gave up. Some people are a waste of space!!
So, we still have no coverage in Stoke but I'm hoping the new not spot plan and the relaxing of regulations might mean we get a cell on the church.
Here is the church with regular flagpole....
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.40...ua9R6PbvxA!2e0
Everything Goes
23-02-2015
Originally Posted by sills:
“Here is a 'wooden' mast a few miles from me, a former T-Mobile site:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.09...4mP2RHFKVg!2e0

This is the only mast that serves the valley I live in. It has O2, EE and 3 on it, no Vodafone (yet), they've never had any coverage here but their website says they will in the next three months. This view is from a bit far away, but you can't get a close view because of trees:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.11...oLUJkCBt6w!2e0”


Impressed with Wooden Mast. Haven't seen that variety before!
Black Box
24-02-2015
http://postimg.org/image/tcb3ybnet/

Next to the A64 near Stockton-on-the-Forest, North Yorkshire. Very crude attempt at disguising it as a tree.
Freeview_Viewer
24-02-2015
Here in Runcorn:

http://postimg.org/image/62sk2c745/
David_bl1
24-02-2015
Bizarre O2 2G/3G mast trying to pass itself off as a flag mast in Dartford:

https://goo.gl/maps/DeUtr
David_bl1
24-02-2015
Originally Posted by sills:
“This is the only mast that serves the valley I live in. It has O2, EE and 3 on it, no Vodafone (yet), they've never had any coverage here but their website says they will in the next three months. This view is from a bit far away, but you can't get a close view because of trees:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.11...oLUJkCBt6w!2e0”

Masts like these concrete towers look strange today because they were originally built in the late 1950s to carry large microwave links to support cold war military communications.

The microwave antennas (or 'horns') used at the time were considerably larger than today's small dishes, so they needed a significant structure to bear their weight.

These horns have now corroded to the point of being unsafe and have been removed from all the towers, including the BT tower in London, leaving the masts looking very bare.

A few examples of how they used to look:

http://www.ringbell.co.uk/ukwmo/img/HornAerial.jpg
http://www.lightstraw.co.uk/ate/main...ials_320_3.jpg

And an interesting read for more background:

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/features/backbone/
jchamier
24-02-2015
Originally Posted by DevonBloke:
“Does any EDGE actually work?.”

EE EDGE works as well as EE GPRS to be honest. If I get EE E then it tends to be a few seconds before 3G or 4G kicks in.

I've only seen Voda EDGE work in north east Scotland, everywhere else I assume so overloaded no data works - same as their GPRS.
rasseru16
24-02-2015
A nice and typical old Orange 2G microcell attatched to a building.

https://goo.gl/maps/dM9Vi
steffangl
24-02-2015
I saw this at Keele services the other day hahahaha.
Not only is the odd shaped tower ugly, they've put a massive O2 logo on some canvas-like material!

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.99...NP5Q!2e0?hl=en
rasseru16
24-02-2015
Originally Posted by steffangl:
“I saw this at Keele services the other day hahahaha.
Not only is the odd shaped tower ugly, they've put a massive O2 logo on some canvas-like material!

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.99...NP5Q!2e0?hl=en”

Oh wow!
DaveProudlock
24-02-2015
Here's one near me, all the networks on this one.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7a786ovpb8...F4413.JPG?dl=0
Thine Wonk
24-02-2015
Originally Posted by DaveProudlock:
“Here's one near me, all the networks on this one.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7a786ovpb8...F4413.JPG?dl=0”

I think those are some older civil contingency towers that were specially built in the cold war era near RGHQs and bunkers, if they are the structures I think they are, they should survive a nuclear strike over some distance away.

If it's the ones I'm thinking of there's a number of them throughout the UK. Where abouts is that one?
DevonBloke
24-02-2015
That is one ugly erection right there!!
DevonBloke
24-02-2015
The was a van in the field and a bloke up this Aquiva mast today doing something to the MBNL antenna at the top.
This is the next mast along from the Harbertonford Brockhills mast that was 4G'd the other day.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.39...DywmON0g1g!2e0
Gigabit
24-02-2015
In Winchester, next to St Swithuns there are two masts, a lamppost mast and a "normal" mast. Which one is O2/Voda and which is MBNL?
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