Having worked with similar tech, but for wireless internet: Being too close to the tower may actually be the problem. The signal doesn’t radiate out from the entire tower; it comes from the big white rectangles and circles up at the top. They’re not usually pointed down, and they don’t really propagate in a sphere, so right under the tower can be a sizeable dead spot.
Antenna engineer here. You are correct. Also there is something called multipath. Because urban environment was mentioned…This is where signals bounce off of objects and combine constructively or constructively creating dead spots. There are many more reasons but most of them have been covers by others.
Having worked with similar tech, but for wireless internet: Being too close to the tower may actually be the problem. The signal doesn’t radiate out from the entire tower; it comes from the big white rectangles and circles up at the top. They’re not usually pointed down, and they don’t really propagate in a sphere, so right under the tower can be a sizeable dead spot.
Antenna engineer here. You are correct. Also there is something called multipath. Because urban environment was mentioned…This is where signals bounce off of objects and combine constructively or constructively creating dead spots. There are many more reasons but most of them have been covers by others.
I live across the sound and slightly downhill from the nearest one I could see