1) The earth is not flat, it curves, so when radio waves are emitted from a cell phone tower antenna in all directions, the majority goes into space and gets blocked by the ground. Only a little bit goes perpendicular to the curve of the earth at that point, but then the curve of the earth drops away from that straight moving signal. So a single cell tower is likely good for about 6 miles in any direction. The three miles is for good coverage for the handoff to the next tower if the phone is moving like in a car from one tower to the next and objects like buildings or mountains may block signal.
2) A strong power single tower attempting to cover all the connections of cell phone use at any given time of the country would not have enough radio spectrum bandwidth to contain all the information. Rather many smaller weaker towers more efficiently use the radio spectrum bandwidth.
MystikDan-delion /
npub1pn…rqlgr
2024-06-23 16:10:50
in reply to nevent1q…gvpx
Author Public Key
npub1pncg62q25h704u6qcf56hnmxx46jdlwfpw2t860ld5685s0sjzms9rqlgrPublished at
2024-06-23 16:10:50Event JSON
{
"id": "95d42c1ffb0f04db6270aa870cd3222c1e702d75e23f1978ad7e948fa2deebfa",
"pubkey": "0cf08d280aa5fcfaf340c269abcf66357526fdc90b94b3e9ff6d347a41f090b7",
"created_at": 1719151850,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"e",
"a16b408f014319d55f3687f98c2ed4ba8d5df72a62fa261061147af60da3a31d",
"",
"root"
],
[
"p",
"6596d001dc9ee0ae9b92907dc90054620984a221389a89e8ecd4660844e1e5ed"
],
[
"client",
"Nostur",
"31990:9be0be0fc079548233231614e4e1efc9f28b0db398011efeecf05fe570e5dd33:1685868693432"
]
],
"content": "1) The earth is not flat, it curves, so when radio waves are emitted from a cell phone tower antenna in all directions, the majority goes into space and gets blocked by the ground. Only a little bit goes perpendicular to the curve of the earth at that point, but then the curve of the earth drops away from that straight moving signal. So a single cell tower is likely good for about 6 miles in any direction. The three miles is for good coverage for the handoff to the next tower if the phone is moving like in a car from one tower to the next and objects like buildings or mountains may block signal.\n\n2) A strong power single tower attempting to cover all the connections of cell phone use at any given time of the country would not have enough radio spectrum bandwidth to contain all the information. Rather many smaller weaker towers more efficiently use the radio spectrum bandwidth.",
"sig": "e50700a372f383b97280760b475b8d106b0824bfdea3a6a483446847e4355e320c86c360a03513790d945bd9da31e270bf66e3a96693dad8a9614503f63cd129"
}