Help Identifying this RF Setup!

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I came accross this install whilst doing some drone filming, what appears to be a number of RF transmitters mounted to this disused wind turbine. The transmitters appear to be branded with 'RF Elements', does anyone have an idea what this could be used for? It appears to be an amateur install judging by the cable management.
 

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Do you mean those round white disks?
those are microwave antennas for a point to point microwave communications network. The smaller ones are probably higher frequency.
 

Where exactly is it?
Some locations are listed in planning applications or frequency allocation tables. The dishes are millimetre wave point-to-point links, probably > 5GHz from their sizes.

Brian.
 

betwixt said:
Where exactly is it?
Some locations are listed in planning applications or frequency allocation tables. The dishes are millimetre wave point-to-point links, probably > 5GHz from their sizes.

Brian.
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Thanks for the reply! This setup is based near Falmouth in Cornwall, they are actually supposed to have FWA Internet nearby, could this potentially be to do with that? Although I thought transmitter and receiver had to have clear line of sight to work.
 

biff44 said:
Do you mean those round white disks?
those are microwave antennas for a point to point microwave communications network. The smaller ones are probably higher frequency
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Yeah, the white antennas. What's strange is that this site is literally in the middle of nowhere.
 

In the middle of nowhere probably means it's a place with little obstruction to several distant points. If you could draw a straight line from the middle of the dishes it would line up with an other dish at some distant point. Sometimes when there is no direct path from one end of a link to the other, repeaters are used to extend the range or bypass something blocking the signal, for example to get from one side of a hill to the other it is sometimes necessary to relay the signal through a repeater at the summit where both sides can be seen.

Brian.
 

After having a look around, it just so happens that one of the highest points in the direction of one of the antennas is a church, looks like another antenna on top!
 

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