Grampian Road (Vodafone)

Address: Grampian Road and Lammermoor Drive, Kohimarama

Vodafone Grampian Road (Kohimarama)
June 2004

Kohimarama (Vodafone)

Vodafone Kohimarama
November 2003: General View

Vodafone Kohimarama
November 2003: Close-Up of Antennas

Vodafone Kohimarama
June 2004: Removal of one pair of 2G antennas. This would later be replaced by a pair of 3G antennas.

Vodafone Kohimarama
July 2004: Addition of a pair of 3G antennas.

This is my local Vodafone site! :-)

This site is rather unusual as it only has two sectors and even more unusually they are separated by only 90 degrees — instead of the usual 120 degrees. The reason for the two sectors is that the site is near the harbour, so Vodafone designed the site to only broadcast signals inland — instead of sending useless signals out to the sea where other sites already provide good coverage.

Unluckly I only found this site after it was upgraded to a sectorised set-up. Previously the site had a onmi-directional set-up for many years — however I did not see the site even during my regular travels within my own suburb! It was actually pretty much by accident that I found this site at all, I just looked up one day and saw the antennas staring back at me!

Kohimarama (Telecom)

Telecom Kohimarama
November 2003: View from the street.

Telecom Kohimarama
December 2004: Different view from the back of the shops.