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Unknown Transmitter | Furzley Lane, New Forest

jmngonline

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For years i've seen this transmitter in the Furzley Lane area in the New Forest but never known what it has been used for.

MNOs have absolutely no signal at all so i'm guessing it's either an emergency services network transmitter or a backup freeview/radio transmitter. Google shows no information on this.
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For years i've seen this transmitter in the Furzley Lane area in the New Forest but never known what it has been used for.

MNOs have absolutely no signal at all so i'm guessing it's either an emergency services network transmitter or a backup freeview/radio transmitter. Google shows no information on this.
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Could it be airwave? I know absolutely nothing about airwave but I stumbled across a video about it the other day and the antennas look quite thin like the ones I saw in the video.

I'm not sure how to check for airwave sites though.

I don't think EE has even had the contract for ESN for 9 years for it to be any possibility of being that.
 
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Just realised that there's some images here, definitely looks like Airwave.


Didn't realise it ran on the 450MHz spectrum, I wonder whether it'll eventually be refarmed into B31/72/73 4G
 
Can Airwave and GSM-R networks work through emergency calls on phones?
 
Can Airwave and GSM-R networks work through emergency calls on phones?
Airwave can't work through emergency calls if it's on the 450MHz spectrum since no device uses it afaik apart from IoT ones

It would be different technologies anyways
 
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Airwave can't work through emergency calls if it's on the 450MHz spectrum since no device uses it afaik apart from IoT ones

It would be different technologies anyways
What about GSM-R because they use the 800 and 900mhz?
 
Checked a sitefinder database I had downloaded and: yeah it's Airwave

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Odd that it says directional when it's an omni - might have been swapped out at some point? Or the database is wrong, who knows
 
What about GSM-R because they use the 800 and 900mhz?
GSM-R doesn't work either. I was talking about GSM-R with someone in Germany and phones don't pick GSM-R up because they ignore the frequencies.

"My Cellmapper friend is able to map GSM-R. GSM-R D is 262 10."

"GSM-R is technically still GSM 900. However normal phones have the setting to ignore GSM-R ARFCNs. What are so doing is to transfer the signal to higher or lower frequencies like GSM 850 for easier NSG Locking and the phone being able to map it."
 
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GSM-R doesn't work either. I was talking about GSM-R with someone in Germany and phones don't pick GSM-R up because they ignore the frequencies.

"My Cellmapper friend is able to map GSM-R. GSM-R D is 262 10."

"GSM-R is technically still GSM 900. However normal phones have the setting to ignore GSM-R ARFCNs. What are so doing is to transfer the signal to higher or lower frequencies like GSM 850 for easier NSG Locking and the phone being able to map it."
GSM-R seems to be 921-925MHz downlink and 876-880MHz uplink if anyone's interested in the UK.

Band 5 (GSM 850), which I mistakenly thought it was operating at initially (from a screenshot that isn't shown here, I think it might be from Cellmapper Telegram?), would operate between 869-894MHz downlink and 824-849MHz uplink.
 
Tetra uses 380-385MHz and 390-395MHz Ofcom frequency tables

Back in the days of analogue TV on the UHF bands, a Tetra base station could cause a herringbone pattern on nearby TVs particularly where a wideband distribution amplifier was involved. The solution was a quarter wave stub tuned to 390MHz placed between the aerial and the first amplification stage.

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