Long story short, I ran into this property about an hour from where I live that has a 300 foot guyed tower. They're selling everything as is, for like 60k. I keep thinking it would be so cool to own something like that, but it's obviously a lot of money just to be able to say I have a 300 foot tower I can climb any time I want.
But it's also like 8 acres of land so there are various options one could use it for like a small solar farm.
But I got thinking, if I could rent space on that tower I could make money on the side or at very least cover the mortgage payment of that land and it would just be a cool thing to own/operate. Anyone familiar with how this industry works? I'm not really that serious about buying it at this point, but still kinda want to research the viability. This is in more or less the middle of nowhere so I don't imagine any cellular services would be interested. MAYBE a small WISP, but even then I doubt it. I'm thinking more government stuff, like for CB radio repeaters, maybe weather service stuff? That kind of thing. I presume a lot of that stuff is already established though.
I'm also in Canada, I find a lot of stuff that talks about this industry but it's all based in the states so hoping someone here might be familiar with this industry to point me in right direction to research further.
I'm even thinking if I could lease the whole tower to a company that basically other companies go to when they want equipment put somewhere, and then they do all the logistics of getting customers etc and then I just get a cut and handle the technical side such as making sure the power and hvac is working etc. How popular is this type of thing, especially for a tower more or less in middle of nowhere?
I don't have a ham license but been thinking about it, so I'd have quite a bit of fun with that.
Think the first thing I'd do is setup an APRS iGate. The range would be pretty crazy.