The cell tower map trick that exposed the whole 5G narrative
I spent 6 months tracking signal drops around Tulsa with a $20 USB dongle and the FCC database. Every dead zone matched a spot where towers were marked as 'maintenance' but no crews ever showed up. Then I cross-referenced permit filings and found 14 towers quietly upgraded to 5G without any public notices. The official coverage maps showed nothing, but my own data showed the exact opposite. Has anyone else pulled raw tower data and seen the same pattern in their city?
Honestly I used to think the whole 5G conspiracy thing was overblown, my buddy works in telecom and he'd say coverage gaps were just terrain or budget stuff. But then I pulled the same FCC data for my area last month, just out of curiosity, and saw 11 towers with permit filings that literally said "antenna replacement" with zero public notice dates. The kicker was that two of those towers showed as fully operational on the official map the whole time, but my phone dropped to 3G within a hundred feet of them. That mismatch between the paper trail and reality is what got me, it's not even about health fears for me anymore, it's just the lying that bugs me.