Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Montgomery County
Wireless Facilities
Coordination Process
Robert Hunnicutt
Tower Coordinator
January 2012
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Transmission Facilities
Coordinating Group (TFCG)
TFCG (cont.)
TFCG chair:
o Conducts monthly public meetings
o Acts as County's liaison to community, industry, elected
officials, and participating agencies
o Directs the work of the Tower Coordinator
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Application Review:
New Tower/Monopole
Overview of Application
Process
Wireless carrier or a representative files an
application for a "wireless facility"
Tower Coordinator reviews application
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Appropriateness of siting to meet carrier's stated goals
Impact on community
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Benefits of Process
Monthly TFCG meetings provide a public forum:
o discussingsitingissues
o reviewingand commenting on telecommunications transmission
facilitypolicies of various agencies
o facilitatingcommunications between member agencies and
between government officialsand the industry
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Signal frequency
Signal strength (power to antenna)
"Downtilt" and "orientation" (direction) of
antennas
Obstructions to signals
Terrain around the site
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Power levels
Terrain
Existing sites
Demographics
Drive tests
o Measures actual signal around site
o Process data to compute likely actual coverage for active
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Tower
Coordinator Engineering
Consultant
verifies "need"
based on RF
propagation
contour maps
(proposed site in
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strengths
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distance from
antenna)
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