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Title: Ever seen these antennas before?
Post by: Al Rettich on July 10, 2017, 10:02:36 AM
Loaded in today, the Wi-Fi signal is massive.  No getting over it today. Never seen these before.  Anyone know what they are?
Title: Re: Ever seen these antennas before?
Post by: Bob Leonard on July 10, 2017, 12:22:32 PM
They appear to be WAP's
Title: Re: Ever seen these antennas before?
Post by: Chrysander 'C.R.' Young on July 10, 2017, 04:58:13 PM
Quote from: Bob Leonard on July 10, 2017, 12:22:32 PM
They appear to be WAP's

If we are talking about the two square objects towards the top of the pic, I doubt those are wifi related.  Too close together and oriented wrong.

Title: Re: Ever seen these antennas before?
Post by: Andrew Broughton on July 10, 2017, 05:12:51 PM
Quote from: Chrysander 'C.R.' Young on July 10, 2017, 04:58:13 PM
If we are talking about the two square objects towards the top of the pic, I doubt those are wifi related.  Too close together and oriented wrong.


Looks like a retractable wall track between them, so having 2 so close together might make sense when the wall is in.
Title: Re: Ever seen these antennas before?
Post by: Henry Cohen on July 10, 2017, 05:38:33 PM
Quote from: Al Rettich on July 10, 2017, 10:02:36 AM
Loaded in today, the Wi-Fi signal is massive.  No getting over it today. Never seen these before.  Anyone know what they are?

Those are antennas for the cellular/PCS/LTE/AWS distributed antenna system (DAS). Not the greatest deployment with respect to each other, but depending on what actually is their RF source, it may be perfectly fine.
Title: Re: Ever seen these antennas before?
Post by: Jeff Baumgartner on July 18, 2017, 08:22:40 AM
Seconding what Henry said. Part of a DAS system. I have an arena full of them. They are paintable so they should have at least tried to make them look not so out of place.