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> Hi Debbi,
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> 23 GHz is very high, and would not be used for WiMax to consumers
> _inside_ the home. Those frequencies are only used for point to point
> between towers, and direct line of sight from satellite dishes up to
> satellites.
> Tall hilltops are frequently populated with little round microwave
> dishes pointed at the next hilltop miles away.
> The Upload frequency for Wildblue internet is 29.5 - 30.0 GHz for
> example, and Downlink is 19.7 - 20.2 GHz. Those dishes are all too
> common in rural areas with no DSL or fiber options for consumers.
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> 1200 ft sounds too close to shield sufficiently. It depends on how
> sensitive you are though.
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> Stewart
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> hspmn wrote:
> >  I'm 1200 ft from a water tower with 40 plus cell antennas and at least 5 microwave antennas, new in August, some of which are pulsing at 23 GHz.  This number really surprised me when I looked it up on antennasearch.com    It seems very high.
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