[TowerTalk] Cell towers and Ham Radio

[Pete Smith]

At 11:15 PM 4/5/01 -0700, Van K7VS wrote:
>Dale.  I have a couple of cell towers on mountain tops in Southern Oregon
>and most of the freqs they use are up around 1.9 gigs.  Also have a couple
>of 2 meter ham repeaters operating at the two sites I have and never have
>experienced any problems.  Don't think you have anything to worry about.
>Van, K7VS
>
>should also mention that I also have radio, tv, telemetry, community
>repeaters and paging equipment on the same sites and they all co-exist
>without any problems in very close proximity to each other.

This is encouraging, but when this subject came up before some people
warned about potential interference.  I'd make sure that the contract for
use of the site obligates the cellular/PCS operator to promptly remedy any
intermod or other interference TO OR FROM the colocated amateur antennas,
and holds the ham club harmless with respect to any interference complaints
from the operators or users.


73, Pete N4ZR
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