Technology Portal – Vinh Long

Lattice cell towers rising over Mekong-delta rice fields and coconut groves.

BTS (base transceiver station) control system for Vinh Long province.

• BTS control system

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• ◆Steel lattice BTS tower built strut by strut: red-white aviation bands, caged ladder, platforms, 3-sector antennas, microwave dishes and a blinking obstruction light
• ◆Signal rings pulsing from the antennas and a rigger climbing the tower
• ◆Fenced compound with chain-link, barbed wire and a warning sign; equipment shelter with ACs, cable bridge, generator, fuel tank and copper grounding rods
• ◆Seven rice paddies planted clump by clump at every stage, from seedlings to golden ripe to harvested with haystacks, between earthen dikes
• ◆Farmers in nón lá transplanting rice, water buffalo with a child on its back
• ◆Mekong canal with a sampan, ducks, water hyacinth, a bamboo monkey bridge and a lift net
• ◆Stilt house with woven bamboo walls and thatched roof, rain jars, laundry, coconut palms and banana trees
• ◆EPPlus Excel report billboard and a technician on a moped carrying coax cable