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"Leaky Coax" [was: London incidents]

  • From: Matt Ghali
  • Date: Thu Jul 14 13:50:13 2005
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On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Adam Rothschild wrote:

  As I understand it, cellular service in the tunnels is provided by
  cells co-located in the Weehawken, NJ and New York City, NY vent
  buildings, with "leaky coax" cable shared by all carriers running
  inside the tubes.

I was intrigued by the concept, and did a bit of googling. I managed 
to dig up a fascinating article on the applications for "leaky coax" 
antennas, in the tunnels we are discussing, to boot!

http://wirelessreview.com/mag/wireless_trouble_tunnels/

matto

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