Great, thanks for the answers.
But Mark, what is a Public Safety site?

Ross

> From: askme@askme.com (Mark F)
> Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com
> Newsgroups: alt.cellular-phone-tech
> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 21:24:38 -0000
> Subject: Re: Cell tower
>
> Ross <ross@rvdstudio.com> wrote in article
> <BB8B8301.18A0E%ross@rvdstudio.com>:
>> Does anyone have an idea how much electricity the equipment
>> at a typical cell tower uses? Or what supply is run to them?
>> The towers have a lot of equipment at the base that
>> handles all the cell phone calls.
>>
>
> There are so many variables that it would be difficult to say EXACTLY
> how much, I can say by looking at an actual bill of one of my 28 channel
> 800 MHz Public Safety sites my electric consumption is around 7000 KW
> Hours per month that includes three (3) 6000 BTU Air Conditioners which
> is the biggest hog of electric.
>
> Mark
>
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