These are spaced about every 300 meters next to the trail in Memorial Park in Houston, TX, but they aren’t only along the trail. They are throughout the park. Does anyone have an idea what they might be? Thanks!
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These are small cell antennas, generally used for mmWave 5G due to the poor penetration the high frequency signals have or to increase capacity of a network where a lot of devices are used in a small space (places like stadiums, airports, city centers, etc) in which case they may have LTE antennas as well. They usually cover about a city blocks worth of area so you’ll see them spaced much like you describe.
The box on the ground is the actual radio and power supplies with the antennas behind the shroud on the pole. You’ll sometimes also see the radio cabinet mounted about 1.5m up the pole so it’s off the ground.
Source: a company I used to work for installed these (Crown Castle).
Thank you for the details! I appreciate you adding your knowledge.
Pretty sure that’s a type of 5G cell tower. I don’t know enough about them to tell you which one, but these have been going up a lot over the last couple years for short range high bandwidth cellular communications.
Maybe someone else can fill in the details.
5G is easily blocked by trees and buildings, so there needs to be many towers near each other
Depending on what kind of 5G you are talking about (yes there are many), towers also can work together to increase the total (not individual) bandwidth on the places that reach many of them.
Why does anyone need 5g in a park? A single slower service tower would be less expensive and less impactful to the environment, right?
Government mind control device.
Serious answer: mobile phone base / cell phone tower
There are already a bunch of those in the park, and they are huge. That makes me think they have to be something else. It’s probably wifi? I just thought they wouldn’t be at such a density if that were the case. Thanks for the response and the chuckle.
5G cellular is high bandwidth but very short range, so yeah they need that kind of density to maintain coverage. They installed them in a street near me and they’re placed every couple of blocks. It’s useful to think of the usual WiFi router at home: you can set up 2.4g and 5g access points. The 5g ones are faster, but have shorter range and you need to use the 2.4g one if you’re far from the router
Oh so corporate mind control then. Gotta serve those ads, bro, yes even in the park, how else can we make line go up bro we can’t just expect line to go up without any ads bro we can’t have people enjoying the park without ads bro PLEASE THINK OF THE SHAREHOLDER! WON’T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE SHAREHOLDER!
I get the sentiment but I imagined it was more about safety than advertising
