Dr. Jonathan Kramer's Cell Tower Photo Gallery

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Most viewed - Wireless Sites
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Santa Fe Country Club388 viewsMono-Golfball Screen
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T-Mobile Camo Site 388 viewsT-Mobile Camo Site at New Hope Christian Church in Chino, CA
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Tarzana, California388 viewsClark Avenue light standard
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Sending out the word...to Interstate 10387 viewsYet another church along a freeway that (likely) enjoys income in the thousands-of-dollars-per-month range. This is a Nextel site near San Bernardino, California.

The interesting and unusual element of this site is the placement of the antennas following the rise of the roofline. In a typical configuration, the two outside antennas are used for reception, and the center antenna is used to transmit, and they're all on the same horizontal plane.
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Arlington, VA Multicarrier Site387 views...at Washington Blvd. and 25th.
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Powering Up Santa Fe387 viewsT-Mobile occupies the top of this power transmission pole near the Plaza in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Camo Water Tank387 viewsCamo Water Tank in San Dimas, CA
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On the Fence386 viewsSome wireless carriers mount their antennas on the outside of water tank sites atop hilltops.
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Time Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area386 viewsTime Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area. Manufactured by BelAir Networks.
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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California386 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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Irvine, Califoria multicarrier site386 viewsThis is an outstanding multicarrier camo site in Irvine, CA
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386 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles386 viewsMobilitie has planted this awful wood pole in West Los Angeles. Note the standoffs for the equipment and conduits. A small cell? I think not.
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Wireless site on a major transmission tower, Irvine, CA385 viewsUtilizing the powerline ROW, this wireless site makes use of a transmission tower. If you enlarge the photograph, you'll see another wireless site on the pole behind this one.
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Power Transmission Tower Site385 viewsNextel's BTS equipment shelter is constructed between the legs of this SCE power transmission tower. Highway 18 between Victorville and Littlerock, California.
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The Tower Company Tower385 viewsSounds circular, eh? Located in Chico, California.
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Tower Towers Over the Santa Fe Plaza385 viewsThis tower stands just south of the Plaza in historic Santa Fe. It's clearly visible from much of the Plaza area. So sad
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Santa Fe Country Club385 viewsMono-Golfball Screen
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Which Way is the Wind Blowing?384 viewsAT&T's site at the Grand Canyon Valle Airport in Valle, Arizona is interesting for several reasons. First, the tower also supports and aircraft landing beacon; second, it supports the wind sock. Yes, that's a tower climber working on the site.
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Wait 'Till We Get Our Haines Signal On You!384 viewsMulticarrier site above Haines, Alaska
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384 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Omnidirectional to Sectorized383 viewsThese poles formerly supported omnidirectional cell antennas. The carrier increased capacity by replacing the omni antennas with sectorized panel antennas.
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Parking the Signal383 viewsParking spaces make good sites for BTS cabinets, GPS, and LMU equipment! And parking lot walls are great for mounting panel antennas, especially when the parking lot faces a major freeway. This site is near LAX airport in Los Angeles along the San Diego Freeway at Century Boulevard.
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Park'n the Signal on the Roof383 viewsPBMS built this site. Cingular took it over. It's likely now a T-Mobile site. Long Beach, California, on top of the parking lot for The Grand Long Beach Event Center, 4101 East Willow St.
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Blessed Be This Cell Site383 viewsAT&T's monopole at the Calvary Community Church in Phoenix sports not one; not two; but three crosses mounted at the corners of the radomes. Quite an interesting design!
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Tall Tower to Save Birds383 viewsAmerican Tower's Taos Central site in Taos, NM has a federally-protected bird's nest on one of the platforms. The the photos here. Search on Taos.
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Sort-of Camo on Face of Shopping Center Tower383 viewsA less-than-inspired design in a shopping center in Chino, CA. Not impressive, and barely camo.
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Sprint Omni Site382 viewsSprint's underground equipment vault
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles382 viewsMobilitie has planted this awful wood pole in West Los Angeles. Note the standoffs for the equipment and conduits. A small cell? I think not.
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381 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Church Bell Tower Mount380 viewsThe sector panels are mounted to the face of the bell tower. The overall quality of the site is, at best, fair. Exposed and disconnected cables detract from the site, as do the visible preamplifiers inside the bell tower. Carrier (as yet) unknown.
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A Terrible Missile Rises Over the New Mexico Horizon380 viewsThis is a monster of a visible site. It stands 150 feet tall and is located on the I25 Frontage Road east of County Road 57 south of Santa Fe, NM. There is another photo in this gallery showing just how awful this site is from close-up.
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380 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Ground level wireless site on hilltop - Overview379 viewsThis is a pull-back photo of a cell site atop a hill above a major Interstate Highway. The antennas are mounted at ground level.
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Really, really flat vines on this pole!379 viewsA Spectrasite site in Montebello, CA.
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Uninspired Cricket Wireless Site in Mesa, AZ379 viewsClose-up of the Cricket Wireless site on top of the Holiday Inn on Country Club in Mesa, Arizona. From a different view along the street the panel antennas are plainly visible. Not recommended.
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A Singular Pole for a Cingular Site379 viewsAmerican Tower leases this monopole to Cingular. It's located in Biggs, California (American Tower Site No. 82517).
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High Power - Higher Education379 viewsSprint has this site at the Irvine Valley College in Irvine, California.
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Cell Service, USN Style378 viewsThis is a photo of a cell site at the USN Amphibious Base in San Diego.
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So-so Camo'ed Pop-Up Site in Los Angeles (San Fernando Valley)378 viewsThis is a so-so camo rooftop site in the San Fernando Valley portion of Los Angeles. It uses open-back pop-ups on the building to mostly hide the antennas.
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Santa Fe Country Club377 views
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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California377 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles376 viewsMobilitie has planted this awful wood pole in West Los Angeles. Note the standoffs for the equipment and conduits. A small cell? I think not.
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375 viewsThis co-lo water tank site in Olivehurst, California is shared by T-Mobile, Nextel, and Cingular. The terminated ASR for this site is 1031366 (terminated because it qualifies for delisting under the FCC's 6 meter rule).
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A Terrible Missile Rises Over the New Mexico Horizon375 viewsThis is a monster of a visible site. It stands 150 feet tall and is located on the I25 Frontage Road east of County Road 57 south of Santa Fe, NM. There is another photo in this gallery showing just how awful this site is from afar.
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles375 viewsMobilitie has planted this awful wood pole in West Los Angeles. Note the standoffs for the equipment and conduits. A small cell? I think not.
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Tarzana, California374 viewsClark Avenue light standard
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Two Sectors - One into a hillside!373 viewsThis sprint site isn't for roadway coverage. One sector (the one facing right in this photo) faces a group of homes. The sector facing left in the photo points DIRECTLY INTO A HILLSIDE! Very strange! See the accompanying photo for more details about the aiming of the left-hand sector.
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AVEA (A & A) cell site373 viewsMasterful way of ventilating the equipment building
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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California373 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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373 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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373 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles373 viewsMobilitie has planted this awful wood pole in West Los Angeles. Note the standoffs for the equipment and conduits. A small cell? I think not.
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Color can make all the difference372 viewsThis non-camo site is tastefully painted to blend in with the underlying structure. Better than most, not a good as some.
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Field of Signals372 viewsCingular's light standard site in the Thousand Oaks Park in Thousand Oaks, California.
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Church Bell Tower With External Antennas371 viewsThis church bell tower sports multiple panel antennas on the face of the structure, rather then flush or camouflaged inside the tower. Too bad. Certainly not a high quality installation. Spotted in South-Central Los Angeles.
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Ketchikan Me if you Kan371 viewsMulticarrier site in Ketchikan, Alaska
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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California371 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles371 viewsMobilitie has planted this awful wood pole in West Los Angeles. Note the standoffs for the equipment and conduits. A small cell? I think not.
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Power transmission pole - L.A. Dept. of Water & Power370 viewsThis power transmission pole, located in Tarzana, California, supports a cell site.
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Store that Signal!370 viewsPublic Storage locations are popular cell site locations. The carrier will often locate its equipment in a top floor or building end unit and place its antennas on the roof or an adjacent mono-whatever.

This PS location, in Rowland Heights, California sports externally mounted antennas.
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Irvine, Califoria multicarrier site370 viewsThis is an outstanding multicarrier camo site in Irvine, CA
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Birds on Blue Unique Cell Site Design - Public Art370 viewsThis public art cell site was designed by Ron Pekar and Sandy McDaniel; brought to life by Esteban DuPont's CellTech Wireless, sponsored by Crown Castle, and authorized by the City of San Diego. This is a wonderful result for a great collaboration. Located at CA905 and Beyer Blvd in San Diego.
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A cell site on a power transmission monopole369 viewsIn Thousand Oaks, California. Note that the BTS equipment is underground.
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Spectrasite in Paramount, California369 viewsYet another Spectrasite installation, this time in Paramount, California (looking north).
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Grand Canyon Valle Airport369 viewsAT&T's site at the Grand Canyon Valle Airport in Valle, Arizona is interesting for several reasons. First, the tower also supports and aircraft landing beacon; second, it supports the wind sock. Yes, that's a tower climber working on the site.
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Verizon Camo Church Site 369 viewsAt St. Margaret's in Chino, CA
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T-Mobile Camo in Palos Verdes Estates, California369 viewsClose up of the of the business end of the building.
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Co-location cell site368 viewsYACS: Yet another co-location cell site.
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Time Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area368 viewsTime Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area. Manufactured by BelAir Networks.
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Building Topper367 viewsIn Inglewood, California, this multi-sector site could have been placed BEHIND camouflage panels instead of in front! Two sectors are visible...way too visible. Carrier(s) unknown.
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Salzburg, Austria cell site366 viewsThis is a cell site on the roof of a bank in Salzburg, Austria. I snapped this photo from my hotel room across the street after having lectured on cell sites at the Center for International Legal Studies.
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Sprint on a Stick in San Diego County366 views
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Irvine, Califoria multicarrier site366 viewsThis is an outstanding multicarrier camo site in Irvine, CA
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles366 viewsMobilitie has planted this awful wood pole in West Los Angeles. Note the standoffs for the equipment and conduits. A small cell? I think not.
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles366 viewsMobilitie has planted this awful wood pole in West Los Angeles. Note the standoffs for the equipment and conduits. A small cell? I think not.
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Oil's Well that Emits Well364 viewsOld oil wells can make good cell sites, even when a building has been built around the base!
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Time to Shippee Out the Signal364 views...from this Spectrasite lattice tower on Shippee Road in Oroville, California. Nextel is the tower occupant. The tower ASR is 1239078.
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Multi Carriers on Multi Power Towers364 viewsThese antennas sites are located on SCE power transmission towers in Irvine, California.
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Verizon Camo Church Site 364 viewsAt St. Margaret's in Chino, CA
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So-so Camo'ed Pop-Up Site in Los Angeles (San Fernando Valley)364 viewsThis is a so-so camo rooftop site in the San Fernando Valley portion of Los Angeles. It uses open-back pop-ups on the building to mostly hide the antennas.
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles364 viewsMobilitie has planted this awful wood pole in West Los Angeles. Note the standoffs for the equipment and conduits. A small cell? I think not.
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The Golden Signal363 views...from this water tank site in Chico, California belongs to T-Mobile.
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T-Mobile Camo Site 362 viewsT-Mobile Camo Site at New Hope Christian Church in Chino, CA
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles362 viewsMobilitie has planted this awful wood pole in West Los Angeles. Note the standoffs for the equipment and conduits. A small cell? I think not.
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles362 viewsMobilitie has planted this awful wood pole in West Los Angeles. Note the standoffs for the equipment and conduits. A small cell? I think not.
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Monopole361 viewsA monopole site between Victorville, California and Littlerock, California. Carrier unknown.
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Manny, Moe and Jack361 viewsThese three lattice towers stand just off of US285 in Nambe, New Mexico. This site is a few miles north of the Santa Fe Opera House.
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles361 viewsMobilitie has planted this awful wood pole in West Los Angeles. Note the standoffs for the equipment and conduits. A small cell? I think not.
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Sutter County Lattice Tower360 viewsOff of CA SR99 at Howsley Road in Sutter County, you'll find this lattice tower.
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Cell Call Box (Version 2)360 viewsHere is the current version of this cellular call box, located on Pacific Coast Highway in southern Ventura County, California. A photograph of the original design is also here at this site. Search on "Cell Call Box" to find it.
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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California360 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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Multi carrier array359 viewsThis is a co-location site with an omni-direction carrier (the antennas up/down from the platform) and a sectorized (panel) antenna configuration. Spotted in Irvine, California.
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Cellular Billboard Sign359 viewsSpotted in Philadelphia.
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No, the tower legs are NOT two colors...359 views...it's just the the legs on the right have so many black cables for the T-Mobile, Cingular, and Nextel antennas. Olivehurst, California.
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Two on a Stick359 viewsCingular and Sprint share this wood light pole in Santa Monica, California. Cingular is on the top, and Sprint is on the arm. Both carriers use completely underground BTS equipment enclosures and flush-to-grade vent systems.
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Santa Fe Country Club359 viewsMono-Golfball Screen
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Irvine, Califoria multicarrier site359 viewsThis is an outstanding multicarrier camo site in Irvine, CA
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles359 viewsMobilitie has planted this awful wood pole in West Los Angeles. Note the standoffs for the equipment and conduits. A small cell? I think not.
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles359 viewsMobilitie has planted this awful wood pole in West Los Angeles. Note the standoffs for the equipment and conduits. A small cell? I think not.
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This signal ISN'T watered down358 viewsNote the panel antennas well below the tank.
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PCS Crown on PG&E Tower358 viewsUbiquitel's PCS antennas in Olivehurst, California are located above the high tension lines on this PG&E power transmission tower.
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NextG DAS - Encinitas, California358 views
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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California358 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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Self-supporting cell tower - Mass Turnpike357 viewsThis co-location site is in Newton, MA along the turnpike.
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Pumping more then water...357 views...from this water plant in Hartford, CT. Note the antennas on the righthand smokestack.
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