UMTS monitoring vehicle
Today, I spotted an interesting looking car at a McDonald's restaurant near Neuwied. It was an ordinary looking VW Sharan, but what caught my attention were the 7 antennas on its roof. I first thought that these were normal GSM antennas and I was wondering why you would need 7 of them, but lying on the front passenger's seat were maps of the Neuwied/Koblenz area that showed measurements of the UMTS coverage. So these antennas were UMTS antennas (6 of them), the last one was an additional GPS antenna. Also on the front passenger's seat was a flatscreen monitor, unfortunately, turned off. In the back of the car were all kinds of technical things like telephone equipment in 19" racks. I would have liked to talk to the driver, however, I could not see him. Maybe he was enjoying his (or her?) meal.