I’m writing a story and I need there to be a reason that a number of those cell phone towers disguised as trees would be clustered in an area to almost make a mini forest. Would there be any reasonable explanation for this however unlikely? Thanks
Maybe. As an upper bound, there might be as many cell towers as there are operating companies in the area. In the US, that number is usually 2 (AT&T, Verizon) but could be as many as 4 (T-Mobile, SPRINT). Usually if they all want to operate in the same area, they would share space on one tower, but not always.
It is also possible that other radio services could put up towers disguised as trees. Maybe there are also towers for Police and Fire, Taxicab, HAM radio etc.
Put a park of fake trees/cell towers on the roof of the tallest building in Manhattan. Pleanty of demand, and a perfect location.
Clusters of fake trees are used all the time. Quite often, fake trees are mixed in with real trees to make them blend in better and be even less noticeable.
You’re not going to get anything more than a small cluster of fake trees, though. A mini-forest isn’t realistic.
Do they need to all be active? Do they need to be in a particular location?, could they not have a yard full of them where they are produced, or at a depot somewhere waiting to be spread out over any chosen mountain/hill range?
Maybe they could be from an old, now disused system, gathered from the countryside, but now in a central location awaiting disposal/teardown etc… Yet some still are sending signals, that can’t be stopped, or tracked, hijacked for an interstellar numbers station… :eek:
Jesta, no. Cellular towers waiting to be installed would be stored horizontally. And they’re not going to collect old, out of service towers and erect them in a yard while awaiting final disposal.
As other options, they could be stored horizontally and assembled if they were being tested for some reason. Really odd things happen during testing.
Artists commonly collect old, discarded installations and erect them in a yard.
There are hundreds of possible reasons why there might be lots of towers at a single point. We need more details of the story to know which are plausible.
There’s the interference issue. Lots of metal trees, even if not actively in use, will interfere with the ones that are in use. That’s one of the reasons cell phone companies try to share towers. If you have even two towers close to each other, they could cause dead areas where one tower is blocking signals from the other.