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PGE Transmission Tower Cell Site411 viewsSpotted in Walnut Creek, California: A cell site mounted atop a PGE transmission tower.
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A Terrible Missile Rises Over the New Mexico Horizon411 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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Yet another awful Mobilitie design411 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Microcell - Two Sectors410 viewsNotice the GPS antenna (the mushroom shaped device) on the crossarm.
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20. The Scaffolding is Down410 viewsHere's a good shot of the clock tower with the scaffolding removed. Nice pic at sunset, eh?
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NextG Distributed Antenna System Node410 viewsNextG is a wireless carrier's carrier. They provide fiber links between the BTS and the antenna site using a technology referred to as Distributed Antenna System (DAS). This is a NextG DAS node located in Encinitas, California. The carrier supported by this node is Cricket Wireless. NextG's Cricket network in San Diego County is thought to be the largest deployment of DAS in the U.S.
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Verizon 'Small Cell' (Really a DAS node)410 viewsStrapped on to a City of Los Angeles light standard. Cables are routed inside the pole to and through the top cap.
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410 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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409 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Birds on Blue Unique Cell Site Design - Public Art409 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 Modest Cell Site?408 viewsThis water tank sports multiple panel antennas. Modesto, California.
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Single Carrier Monopole408 viewsNot much to say about this site. It's a monopole that happens to be located at the top of a hill next to a water tank.
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Sutter County Lattice Tower408 viewsHere's a closer view of the SR99/Howsley Road lattice towre in Sutter County, California.
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408 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Panoramic view of the KMLT transmitter building407 viewsThe roof is on. Less than a month to go before the hole is closed and the building is buried.
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Cellular Billboard Sign407 viewsSpotted in Philadelphia.
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Tarzana, California407 viewsClark Avenue light standard
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Color can make all the difference - Close up406 viewsThe antenna panels, while not camo, are nicely blended into the underlying structure.
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Field of Signals406 viewsCingular's dual CEV site at Thousand Oaks Park in Thousand Oaks, California. Notice the GPS/LMU antenna bolted to the side of the CEV in the foreground.
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design406 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles406 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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San Mateo Bridge405 viewsTo provide for high power, focused coverage along a significant portion of the San Mateo Bridge spanning the Bay, carriers use high gain antennas. Here's a co-lo cell site on the east side of the bay.
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Guyed Tower - Antennas Vertically Stacked404 viewsThis cell site is on a guyed lattice tower on top of a commercial building in Modesto, California. Notice that the antennas are vertically stacked "tip-to-tip" at the top of the tower.
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Grand Canyon - South Rim404 viewsThis multicarrier site is located near the Bright Angle Lodge at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
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So-so Camo'ed Pop-Up Site in Los Angeles (San Fernando Valley)403 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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Irvine, Califoria multicarrier site403 viewsThis is an outstanding multicarrier camo site in Irvine, CA
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Salzburg, Austria cell site - Apartment Building402 viewsThis is a cell site on the roof of an apartment building in Salzburg, Austria. I snapped this photo from my hotel room after having just lectured on cell siting at the Center for International Legal Studies.
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16. Clock Tower Painting Underway402 viewsYet another view of the re-painted clock tower.
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design402 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Field of Signals401 viewsCingular's light standard site in the Thousand Oaks Park in Thousand Oaks, California.
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Cell Site on a Power Pole (Crown Design)401 views...on 19th near Tuckahoe in Fairfax Co., VA near I66. Notice how the cable ladder is attached to the pole using straps.
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6. A Close-Up View of Two Sectors of RF-Transparent Panels401 viewsYet another view of the bell tower being modified to enclose the antennas.
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21. Huh? What Happended to the Concrete Pad?401 viewsIn a surprising twist, the concrete pad has been hammered out and new frames and conduits installed. What gives? According to the work crews, it seems that the generator pad was installed 90 degrees off. Go back in the gallery and look and you'll see what I'm talking about. Because of the little error, weeks were apparently lost in site activation...not to mention $$$ (which I didn't, okay?).
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Take me to the Opera!401 viewsA parking lot light site at the Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe, NM.
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design401 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Sprint microcell - Two Sectors399 viewsThis two sector microcell provides spot service along Mulholland Highway in Los Angeles. Note the good use of brown paint to provide some blending with the pole and arms.
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The Leaning Tower of Victorville399 viewsVerizon's 3-sector wood pole is ever-so-slowly leaning over. Victorville, California.
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Time Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area399 viewsTime Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area. Manufactured by BelAir Networks.
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Sprint - Microcell using Sanders CATV radio398 viewsSprint (especially in conjunction with Cox) deployed a significant number of the Sanders cable TV/cell interface. This site uses very low gain antennas (the two outside antennas are for reception from the users, and the center antenna is for transmission to the users). Sprint has built its own CATV-like wireless system to connect many of its sites back to its MTSOs.
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Tower Towers Over the Santa Fe Plaza398 viewsTowering over the historic Santa Fe Plaza (and just about everything else in the area), this awful pole is about as out of place as a tower can be. So sad. Thanks to Alltel for contributing to the spoiling of the historic Santa Fe Plaza area.
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design398 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles398 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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Ketchikan Me if you Kan397 viewsMulticarrier site in Ketchikan, Alaska
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Tarzana, California397 viewsClark Avenue light standard
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Federally Protected Bird's Next in Taos, NM396 viewsThis is a close-up of the federally-protected bird's next located high up an American Tower colo site in Taos, New Mexico.
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AT&T Site Undergoing a 4G Upgrade396 viewsThis site, at 703 Montana in Santa Monica, California is undergoing an upgrade to 4G.
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Two Sectors - One into a hillside!395 viewsAs seen in the accompanying photo, the left-pointing antennas (sector) seem to provide excellent coverage for the hillside, and not much beyond it. It would be interesting to know how much power this site and antennas produce, and whether any portion of the hillside is in an RF controlled zone. The hillside, as you can see in the photo, is quite accessible to the general public.
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Power on the Tower395 viewsAn AT&T site on a SCE transmission tower in Thousand Oaks, California.
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395 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design395 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design395 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Waves of Power394 viewsA fairly standard power transmission tower with a cell crown. Spotted in Walnut Creek, California, this photograph graces the cover of Paul Valle-Riestra's book, "Telecommunications: The Governmental Role in Managing the Connected Community" published in 2002.
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Poorly designed Church bell tower site394 views
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Irvine, Califoria multicarrier site394 viewsThis is an outstanding multicarrier camo site in Irvine, CA
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Two Sectors - One into a hillside!393 viewsOkay, here's a panoramic photograph of Sprint's excellent RF into the accessible hillside.
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11. Cables are now in the Cable Tray393 viewsWe're getting closer! Notice that the cables make a gentle (less than 90 degree) bend at the bottom of the ladder where it connects to the tray in the hallway. Bending cables too much can kink them. Kinking can cause excessive signal transmission losses. Not a good thing! Also notice that the GPS antenna is now installed--quite visibly--at the top of the cable tray on the roof. More in the next photograph...
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Blessed Be This Cell Site393 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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Wireless, with Cables393 viewsClose up of the multicarrier site at the upper station of the Mt. Roberts Tramway in Juneau, Alaska.
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393 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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393 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design393 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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AT&T Wireless (Cingular) Omni Site391 viewsJust park your BTS equipment in this space and you're good to go. AT&T Wireless built this dual band cellular/PCS site in West Los Angeles adjacent to a large regional mall and a busy intersection.
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Take me to the Opera!391 viewsThe BTS cabinets for the multi-carrier sites (on parking lot lights) at the Santa Fe Opera in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles391 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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Top Hat Wireless?390 viewsHere's a different spin on hanging antennas from a pole. The other poles along this strand line are shorter, but AT&T Wireless replaced the existing pole with a taller one to provide room at the top to hang its three sectors of panel antennas.
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Store that Signal!390 viewsThe roof-mounted cable tray supporting the antenna coax cables can be clearly seen in this photo. The cable tray protects the coaxial cable from being damaged, here from people walking and working on the roof. Damaged coaxial cables most often seriously degrade the received and transmitted signals.
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9. More Cable Tray Installation390 viewsHere's a further view of the cable tray as it transitions from the hallway leading from the side of the building over and down to the BTS equpment housing area.
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design390 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Verizon MTSO San Diego 1 of 2389 viewsThis photo shows Verizon's Mobile Telephone Switching Office and tower in San Diego, California.
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10. Securing the Coaxial Cables in the Tray389 viewsA tech secures the cables to the tray. Notice that the cable tray extends out a bit from the edge of the wall. This will connect with the vertical portion of the tray heading to the roof.
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Two on a Stick388 viewsHere's a long view of this two-carrier site. If you look in the sidewalk area to the right of the pole you'll see Cingular's flush-to-grade equipment vault, and just to the left of it, Cingular's two flush-to-grade vents.
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Tip-to-Tip 1 of 2387 viewsThis equipment cabinets of this site are behind an unlocked gate. Many of the cable conduit pull caps have been removed exposing the site wiring.
Note the antennas mounted in a "tip-to-tip" configuration. A close up of the antennas is seen in an adjacent photo in this gallery.
This site is located in San Francisco and shines signal on US101.
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NextG DAS - Norwalk, California387 viewsNextG Networks DAS light standard site in Norwalk, California.
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AT&T Clock Tower - Public Park387 viewsAT&T Clock Tower Site in Rio Rancho, NM
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Tarzana, California387 viewsClark Avenue light standard
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design387 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Multi-carrier Omnis and Panels386 viewsThis traditional 'high iron' site supports several carriers using omni-directional antennas, as well as at least one carrier with sectorized panel antennas.
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Drive Test Rover Ready To Run386 viewsInside the cab of the drive test 'rover' is a portable computer connected to the output of the PCS signal strength receiver and the GPS receiver. The computer records the data for later mapping. The clipboard holds the predetermined route that the driver of the rover will cover during the test.
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Sock-it-to-me386 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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18. Now You See the Cables...Now You Don't385 viewsThe cables are now safely tucked away under the cover of the tray, now installed.
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Rooftop macrocell384 viewsYet another rooftop macrocell site. Santa Monica, California.
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Cell Sign384 viewsSpotted in Redwood City, California, this two sector cell site provides spot coverage along the US101.
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I'll Turn Left on a Green Sector...384 viewsFountain Hills area of greater Phoenix. A three sector site atop a traffic and light standard.
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Tarzana, California384 viewsClark Avenue light standard
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More Power from Power...382 views...plant, that is. San Diego County, California.
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Hitting the signal out of the park382 viewsSprint's three-sector site is split between one sector on an existing light standard, and two sectors on a pole it installed.
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25. It's Raining, It's Pouring (Concrete)382 viewsHere's the new re-poured pad. It's just been poured. There'll be a cure period to let it harden before moving the equipment into the area.
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Side Saddle Microwave Dish Installation381 viewsThis cell site uses a microwave dish antenna system to provide backhaul to the MTSO. The interesting note for this site is the side saddle (offset) installation of the dish antenna. In most metro installations, a microwave antenna saves the carrier the cost of leasing a telco dataline, but at the expense of adding visual loading to the project.
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Multi-carrier Cell Site Cleverly Disguised As An Upscale Hotel381 viewsOkay, it's really a hotel with an amazing number and variety of cell sites. Look at the related series of photos to get a flavor of this amazing site in Torrance, California.
Looking northeast. Cells on the roof (camo to the right; not camo in the middle) and on the southwest wall. Three panel non-camo sector on the west roof.
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Tarzana, California381 viewsClark Avenue light standard
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T-Mobile Camo Site 380 viewsT-Mobile Camo Site at New Hope Christian Church in Chino, CA
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Monopole Power Tower Cell Site379 viewsThis is a cell site on a power mono-tower in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Notice the microwave antenna for backhaul located on the lower portion of the tower.
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On the Fence379 viewsSome wireless carriers mount their antennas on the outside of water tank sites atop hilltops.
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Powering Up Santa Fe379 viewsT-Mobile occupies the top of this power transmission pole near the Plaza in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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A Pair of Monopoles in Gorman, California379 viewsAt the northern end of Los Angeles County along I-5.
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379 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Parking lot cell site378 viewsThe cell antennas are mounted on the light standard on the roof of a public parking lot in San Francisco.
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Santa Fe Country Club378 viewsMono-Golfball Screen
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Camo Water Tank378 viewsCamo Water Tank in San Dimas, CA
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles378 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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17. Clock Tower Painting Underway377 viewsA rear view of the re-painted clock tower.
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Which Way is the Wind Blowing?377 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!377 viewsMulticarrier site above Haines, Alaska
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Time Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area377 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, California377 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 site377 viewsThis is an outstanding multicarrier camo site in Irvine, CA
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Sending out the word...to Interstate 10376 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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Tower Towers Over the Santa Fe Plaza376 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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Power Transmission Tower Site375 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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15. Clock Tower Painting Underway375 viewsThe panels are fully installed and are being painted and textured to match the building.
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Tall Tower to Save Birds375 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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375 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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A New Sign of the Times374 viewsYes, this cell site is sandwiched between two outdoor advertising signs. Yes, two of the three sectors shine THROUGH the signs (with metal rails just in front of the panel antennas).
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Blessed Be This Cell Site374 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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Microcell - Two Sectors373 viewsTwo sectors facing up/down the highway. That's the San Fernando Valley in the background (on a VERY clear day!).
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13. Securing the Cables and Painting373 viewsThings are moving forward downstairs, too!
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Santa Fe Country Club373 viewsMono-Golfball Screen
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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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26. Anyone for a Tumble?372 viewsThe concrete mixer has done its job and is ready to go home, again!
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A Terrible Missile Rises Over the New Mexico Horizon372 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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Sort-of Camo on Face of Shopping Center Tower372 viewsA less-than-inspired design in a shopping center in Chino, CA. Not impressive, and barely camo.
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372 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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