[at-l] Snowbird Mountain

[MySaabRocks@aol.com (MySaabRocks@aol.com)]

The most likley scenario for clearing Snowbird Mountain of the tree/shrub 
growth around the top was to improve signal performace from the FAA tower.  
Believe it or not, leaves degrade the signal.

I administered a large fleet (150+) of Nextel phones at my company and had 
> some of the Nextel users lose their ability to use their phones in the 
> summer months in certain locations at our site.  The Nextel tech. told me 
> that leaves were the culprit-sort of like mother nature's stealth 
> technology-leaves absorb the signal.  Marginal reception locations in our 
> plant got wiped out in the summer.  the fix was to locate a cell tower 1/2 
> mile from the plant.

The Snowbird signal was probably getting affected by the plant growth around 
it.  My daughter and I hiked over Snowbird last fall.  I appreciated the 
forest 'feel' just yards from the tower, but I also understand the need to 
get the signal out there to the aircraft-wouldn't want a 747 plowing into the 
mountainside!  Maybe the solution is to develop Snowbird as a bald, smaller 
in scale, but similar to Max Patch-what a beautiful spot that is!





--- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts ---
multipart/alternative
  text/plain (text body -- kept)
  text/html
---