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Today, just for you, the Unmanned Experts CEO tells us why drones are a great tool for tower work. He explains how frustrating it is to wait for the FAA to open up the rules for drones so that the commercial work can happen on a widespread scale. How training really matters, and that you … Continue reading Keven Gambold Explains Using Drones for Tower Work →

Update on fallen climber – For those of you that Didn’t hear, we lost a climber, 73-year-old Milt Jenson who fell 50 feet on an amateur tower doing volunteer work, I added some new links , the full story is   here; https://wade4wireless.com/2016/06/10/man-dies-from-fall-at-mt-lemmon/ to see the updated links. Now the Kenneth Cleveland story: AT&T is showing that they … Continue reading AT&T offers a $60K reward for Injured Technician →

I understand that the close out package is a key KPI for most tower work done today. To close out the site you need to have all of the information documented and presented in the format that the customer, usually a carrier, wants to see it. They want all of the information in a specific … Continue reading How to make Close Out Packages Simple →

  Today I have Rick Ledford of Comstar, www.Comstarusa.com goes over the training that Comstar offers. He is the COO of Comstar. I would like to thank Rick for taking the time to talk to me, it was a great talk. Now the audio at the end got a little choppy, sorry, but the interview … Continue reading Rick Ledford Explains Comstar Training →

  Commentary and my opinions! Can Sprint get back to #3? Boy, Sprint keeps telling us how great their network is, then they make announcements that they are going to put the minimal amount of money into the network. Trust me, if you are a Sprint vendor, you feel the pinch. They aren’t just driving … Continue reading Can Sprint Get Back to Good? →

In this show we have a small cell legend. Art King of SpiderCloud, who had a great career in IT and made the move into carrier small cells for the enterprise. He actually had the idea for the enterprise small cell long before it was a thing. He would collaborate with the SpiderCloud gang before he … Continue reading Art King is the King of Enterprise Small Cells →

I met Steve at the NEDAS show and got to know him afterwards. He is an easy guy to talk to about wireless, we all love wireless. The groups he works with are really something. They are all there to help inform you, the wireless worker, about the wireless industry. DAS, Small Cells, and all … Continue reading Steve Yapsuga Talks Wireless Integration →

This is a sad day, in the tower industry. According to reports in The Washington Post and WJLA in DC, a climber fell and died from a tower near the WSSC treatment plant in Damascus, Md. About 3Pm on Monday, May 16th the Montgomery police responded to a call and they are treating it like a … Continue reading Climber Falls to Death in Maryland →

FCC DAS and Small Cell Workshop 2016 Once again the FCC is working to improve broadband access in the USA. For that, I say thank you. This time they had a workshop to understand what DAS is and what small cells do. Hey, the FCC is busy trying to improve this wireless world for you! … Continue reading FCC DAS and Small Cell Workshop 2016 →

#NEDASNYC In my last post I spoke of Day 1, which was the shorter day, here is day 2. Like I said, great show and I made so many connections and met so many great people. The videos of this can be found here, this way you can see the people that I have met! … Continue reading Day 2 Lessons at NEDAS NYC 2016 →

There were a few accidents this week I wanted to report on. They weren’t communication tower accidents but they were all tower related. Newsletter sign-up! Hey everyone, there was another injury this week. Wally Reardon posted this on Facebook and we are trying to gather more information. On county road 170 near county road 120 … Continue reading Tower Related Injuries and More →

  #NEDASNYC I attended and spoke at the NEDAS show in New York City this year. What a great show! I got to hear the experts talk about new technology and real world problems. I was there for both days, attending all the sessions. Let me tell you, if you think that new technology will … Continue reading Lessons Learned at NEDAS NYC 2016 Day 1 →

  I am so excited that the FCC will be releasing more spectrum for the rest of us. The Citizens Broadband Radio Service, (CBRS) here in the USA. I am not talking about the Billions of dollars that the US carriers need to spend to get LTE spectrum. I am talking about the spectrum that … Continue reading CBRS Citizens Broadband Radio Service Update →

  The sessions at IWCE show were really great and I did go to many of them but I also moderated this session. I thought it would be good for you to see what is available for your site needs, especially if you are working mission critical operations. This is where the FirstNet system may … Continue reading Shelter Monitoring, Cooling, Design, and Power @IWCE →

Commentary: Verizon’s Enterprise unit started a Value Added Distributor, VAD, program. Now, this has little to do with wireless at this time because it includes, “Verizon’s RRR service includes forensics, cyber incident assessments and designated security experts from Verizon who can go out to customer sites to conduct IT investigations 24/7.” Per the story at … Continue reading Carriers need a VAD and VAR Program for Small Cells and DAS! →

More on IWCE! I was in another session which was great if you work in public safety. It was session N259 – Pick Me, Pick Me! Choosing the Right Technology for Your System which was moderated by Steve Macke, a great moderator. He knew about all of these technologies, mostly because he consulted for people … Continue reading IWCE 2016 Review of Choosing the Right Technology →

Hello again, I will be on a round table talking about indoor antenna design at the Northeast DAS and Small Cell 2016 Spring In Building Summit in New York City on April 6th, 2016. It is being put together by NEDAS. I am looking at it from a deployment perspective. Remember that in building installations have … Continue reading Northeast DAS and Small Cell 2016 Spring In Building Summit →

I got back from IWCE 2016 exhausted. There was so much going on at that show that I can’t begin to tell you everything. So what I will go over is what I was able to attend. Of course, my sessions were really important! To me anyway. I talked about LTE deployment on Monday with … Continue reading IWCE 2016 Review on Next Generation of Wireless Networks →

Here is a story of not only a survivor, but an inspiration of someone who truly feels he is blessed from GOD and someone who really inspires by his great attitude and his love of his family. I have to tell you if you don’t have faith before this, you will after you listen. First, … Continue reading Tower Shock Survivor John Richardson talks of Family, Faith, and Recovery →