Peter, please make more videos! RF equipment is very interesting and we get to see what these things look like and how they work. Who would not be curious to want to know how the technology they use everyday works?
I don't fully understand this stuff but I find your videos very interesting. Are you able to do a video for beginners explaining some of what we see here?
You’re amazing and awesome! Do you still get super excited when you first see the equipment? I wish I understood it all but perhaps it’s better that it’s too technical , it remains quite mysterious, a bit like the first time I saw a server room! So exciting seeing the blinking lights and hearing the noises the equipment made..
Thanks so much, you made my evening with your kindness! Yeah, I still do get rather excited when I arrive and the doors are open although I generally act as though I've seen it all before even if I haven't because it normalises me taking pictures!
@@scivids1999 That's so funny. I do the same. I take pictures like I'm a photographer. I ran into this type of site once in Illinois USA, on my way to another site and I didn't even know what it was. It had the normal, standard site naming convention on the smaller cabinet, but I just kept circling the pole looking up. I texted some other tech's and even they were puzzled. They concluded it was some type of small cell. I knew from looking that it wasn't, so I just assume it was some type of standalone repeater or some type of new transport haul. These aren't common in the USA I guess 2 years ago, or at least not in the mid-west USA. Most are Samsung and a few Nokia.
Still running 2g in the UK? The oldest mobile equipment we run in Aus is the 3g 3206 cabinet's. But mainly 6000 series cabinets these days with dus/duw. I have done the 5g training but I'm yet to get my hands on one as in in the maintenance side of the mobiles and they are very new. Cool video and thanks for sharing.
Thanks Damian. EE, Vodafone and O2 continue to operate their 2G networks and will do for the foreseeable future due to M2M contracts and legacy devices. Operators in the UK are planning to switch off 3G in the coming few years though!
@@scivids1999 i see, what kinds of legacy services do you still have in the uk? We aim to switch off our 3g by 2023. I'm not sure what the plan is in rural areas as the 3g coverage is far better then LTE. So there might be a few unhappy farmers around the place.
Nice installation with clear labeling, but I wonder such ventilation could make it survive from tropics or even subtropics zone like Gibraltar and Hong Kong.
I can refer you to AT&T based in the Czech Republic if you like? I used to work on a team remotely supporting engineers in the US working on this equipment, Ericsson and Nokia mainly occasionally some old Nortel GSM in Puerto Rico
@@scivids1999 so more like a UPS system a computer server rather than the kind of battery you get on a intruder alarm. With good healthy batteries they should last 8 hours+
Very interesting.... Clever lad. You really should be working at GCHQ my lad.... Or, perhaps within a police Technical Surveillance Unit (TSU) / Forensic Cellsite Analysis Unit. They would snap you up.... They love "Geeks" like you (no offence intended). It would be a win win for you and the state.
Hi peter - thanks for sharing this. I'm a planning officer and would interested to understand this technology better. Would it be possible to schedule a phone call with you to pick your brains on a few things?
Peter, please make more videos! RF equipment is very interesting and we get to see what these things look like and how they work. Who would not be curious to want to know how the technology they use everyday works?
Please tell me how to adjust the battery charging voltage in such a power system?
It outputs 54.8V, but I need 52.8V.
What software can I do this?
How do you get into the Lancaster cabinets?
I don't fully understand this stuff but I find your videos very interesting. Are you able to do a video for beginners explaining some of what we see here?
You’re amazing and awesome! Do you still get super excited when you first see the equipment? I wish I understood it all but perhaps it’s better that it’s too technical , it remains quite mysterious, a bit like the first time I saw a server room! So exciting seeing the blinking lights and hearing the noises the equipment made..
Thanks so much, you made my evening with your kindness! Yeah, I still do get rather excited when I arrive and the doors are open although I generally act as though I've seen it all before even if I haven't because it normalises me taking pictures!
@@scivids1999 That's so funny. I do the same. I take pictures like I'm a photographer. I ran into this type of site once in Illinois USA, on my way to another site and I didn't even know what it was. It had the normal, standard site naming convention on the smaller cabinet, but I just kept circling the pole looking up. I texted some other tech's and even they were puzzled. They concluded it was some type of small cell. I knew from looking that it wasn't, so I just assume it was some type of standalone repeater or some type of new transport haul.
These aren't common in the USA I guess 2 years ago, or at least not in the mid-west USA. Most are Samsung and a few Nokia.
Still running 2g in the UK? The oldest mobile equipment we run in Aus is the 3g 3206 cabinet's.
But mainly 6000 series cabinets these days with dus/duw. I have done the 5g training but I'm yet to get my hands on one as in in the maintenance side of the mobiles and they are very new.
Cool video and thanks for sharing.
Thanks Damian. EE, Vodafone and O2 continue to operate their 2G networks and will do for the foreseeable future due to M2M contracts and legacy devices. Operators in the UK are planning to switch off 3G in the coming few years though!
@@scivids1999 i see, what kinds of legacy services do you still have in the uk?
We aim to switch off our 3g by 2023.
I'm not sure what the plan is in rural areas as the 3g coverage is far better then LTE. So there might be a few unhappy farmers around the place.
Nice installation with clear labeling, but I wonder such ventilation could make it survive from tropics or even subtropics zone like Gibraltar and Hong Kong.
The fans can pump a serious amount of airflow!
I can refer you to AT&T based in the Czech Republic if you like? I used to work on a team remotely supporting engineers in the US working on this equipment, Ericsson and Nokia mainly occasionally some old Nortel GSM in Puerto Rico
I see they have backup batteries. How long are they expected to last Inthe even of power failure ?
Roughly 2-3 hours of probably 900MHz only. They're designed to deal with momentary power dips and not long term power failure
@@scivids1999 so more like a UPS system a computer server rather than the kind of battery you get on a intruder alarm. With good healthy batteries they should last 8 hours+
@Jackie Treehorn I was just confirming with Peter C that I had read his reply.
Indeed!
Jackie-to confirm understanding?
Very interesting.... Clever lad. You really should be working at GCHQ my lad.... Or, perhaps within a police Technical Surveillance Unit (TSU) / Forensic Cellsite Analysis Unit. They would snap you up.... They love "Geeks" like you (no offence intended). It would be a win win for you and the state.
Hi peter - thanks for sharing this. I'm a planning officer and would interested to understand this technology better. Would it be possible to schedule a phone call with you to pick your brains on a few things?
Yes, sure! enquiries[@]pedroc.co.uk (without the square brackets)
Good
Thanks
No way! I make them poles ahaha
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