| Author | Message | ||
     grw Citizen Username: Grw Post Number: 441 Registered: 12-2002 |
Here it comes, construction started | ||
| gj1 Citizen Username: Gj1 Post Number: 391 Registered: 11-2003 |
Please tell me it will look like this:  And not like one of these ridiculous things:  Please? | ||
| ess Citizen Username: Ess Post Number: 3014 Registered: 11-2001  |
Actually, either version would be aesthetically offensive, no? | ||
| mim Citizen Username: Mim Post Number: 681 Registered: 5-2001 |
Construction started? Where? I missed this totally... | ||
| gj1 Citizen Username: Gj1 Post Number: 392 Registered: 11-2003 |
Lipstick on a Pig. Personally, I find the pathetically disguised towers to be far more offensive. If there is going to be a cell tower let it be a cell tower, or attach it to some other structure. Why blight the landscape with fake plastic trees? Giant redwoods, no less. The Sequoia cellphonus located around mile 130 on the GSP looked like it was stricken with some horrible disease as the "bark" began peeling of the "trunk" not very long after it was installed. | ||
| HOMMELL Citizen Username: Hommell Post Number: 278 Registered: 11-2005 |
where is it? | ||
| KRNL Citizen Username: Krnl Post Number: 121 Registered: 9-2005 |
My favorite is the one on I78 that has an old fashioned windmill top! | ||
| Colleen Citizen Username: Cbroderick Post Number: 206 Registered: 7-2001  |
I haven't seen it yet, but it's supposed to go into the golf course. | ||
| grw Citizen Username: Grw Post Number: 442 Registered: 12-2002 |
if you go to the corner of Millburn Ave and Cypress st and look behind that small triangular building (i think it's a limo service now) I'm not sure what was agreed regarding what it is going to look like, last I heard, Verizon was supposed to present some options and I beleive the bd of adjustment was to make the decision. This is supposed to be completed in 8 weeks. | ||
| grw Citizen Username: Grw Post Number: 443 Registered: 12-2002 |
I think there should be a big sign on top saying "Welcome to Maplewood" | ||
| kws Citizen Username: Kws Post Number: 143 Registered: 5-2001 |
There is a "Jersey Sequoia" in the West Orange valley off of Northfield. You would rather have a big ugly tower? You're kidding right? | ||
| Soda Supporter Username: Soda Post Number: 4120 Registered: 5-2001  |
 -s. | ||
| dgm Citizen Username: Dgm Post Number: 308 Registered: 5-2001 |
the cell coverage would be welcome. i personally am no Luddite. | ||
| grw Citizen Username: Grw Post Number: 444 Registered: 12-2002 |
dgm Don't get too excited!!! I don't think it's going to improve the coverage, it's going to reduce the dropped calls by 1% | ||
| Letters Citizen Username: Letters016 Post Number: 799 Registered: 5-2005  |
Mobile phone airship to conquer stratosphere  A zeppelin will replace all the terrestrial mobile phone antennas in Switzerland - if a Swiss inventor has his way. Should Kamal Alavi's project for the high-tech airship take off, the worlds of mobile telephony and data transmission would be turned on their heads. Not only would the technology, called High Altitude Platform Systems (Haps), make the current 1,000 earth-bound antennas redundant, it would drastically reduce radiation. A Swiss of Iranian extraction, Alavi is a former aerospace engineer turned entrepreneur who heads his own firm, Stratxx. Together with a team of 50 scientists, he is preparing a 2007 test run of the airship, which he has named the "X station". Thanks to a GPS steering system developed by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the 60-meter long helium-filled balloon will remain stationary at 21 kilometres above the earth. A small-unmanned aircraft outfitted with a mobile phone antenna and other devices for transmitting digital data will be attached to the zeppelin. The X station has been equipped with giant propellers to help counter the almost constant buffeting from the wind. Solar panels will supply the energy to propel the airplane and antenna. Underneath will be a platform containing technical equipment, conceived by Ruag, the large Swiss aerospace concern. Radiation "Transmitting on earth causes lots of radiation, because you have to penetrate countless buildings," Alavi says, arguing that phone connections are more reliable when transmitted from above because the signals are unobstructed by manmade or natural objects. And "spot beam" antennas developed at Lausanne will allow radiation to be adjusted according to usage, regions with little activity receiving relatively less. But Switzerland's largest mobile telephone operator, Swisscom believes not all of the technological hurdles have been overcome. "This project cannot replace the present mobile telephone system," spokesman Sepp Huber told swissinfo. The X station would not be limited to forwarding mobile telephone signals, but would also be capable of handling the radio, television and internet needs of entire nations. Alavi believes that his project is also economical. He estimates that a Haps airship will cost no more than SFr40 million ($32 million). In comparison, a single mobile phone antenna costs about SFr300,000 while a communications satellite starts at SFr600 million. Alavi says the X stations are conceived to be low maintenance. In the event of a defect, the aircraft will be decoupled from the airship and returned to earth, much like a mini-space shuttle. The project is now in a key phase. Solar cells are being tested at an altitude of 30 kilometres, and final preparations are underway for the launch of the first airship into the stratosphere. The entire system should be ready for testing a year from now. The potential is enormous if Stratxx manages to be the first to fly with this new technology. About 20 Haps would be required to cover Europe alone while Africa would need twice as many. © Copyright swissinfo SRI | ||
| grw Citizen Username: Grw Post Number: 446 Registered: 12-2002 |
I heard it's going to look like a Tree | ||
| Letters Citizen Username: Letters016 Post Number: 880 Registered: 5-2005 |
Darn, I was so hoping that we could have a blimp flying overhead 24/7/365/lifetime.  | ||
| greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 9307 Registered: 5-2001  |
Where's the windmill on 78? |
