Dr. Jonathan Kramer's Cell Tower Photo Gallery

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Most viewed - Non-Camouflaged Sites
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Penthouse external mounted site444 viewsThis is a plain, externally mounted cell site on a commercial office building. Note the GPS (timing) antenna well above the roof line, which might have been mounted at the roof level to minimize its visibility from ground level without impairing its function.
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8 foot antenna on building444 viewsA rather ugly 8' antenna stuck on the side of a building in Tarzana, California
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Lots of BTS Equipment in the Sidewalk Area443 viewsHere's a close-up photo of the AT&T Wireless BTS in the public right-of-way (sidewalk). Notice how tall the equipment stack is (about 6').
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443 viewsA Verizon MTSO in Stockton, California.
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NextG Distributed Antenna System Node443 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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Galt High School Doesn't Lack for Signal442 viewsThree out of four light standards at the Galt (California) High School Warrior Stadium are cell sites. Well, that still leaves 25% growth potential!
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Elevated Water Tank Cell Site442 viewsArtwork adorns this 4-level multi-carrier water tank site near Philadelphia.
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Big Iron CoLo in Lacey Washington439 viewsNextel and AT&T Wireless share this tower in Lacey, Washington
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Park'n the Signal on the Roof437 viewsThe cable wiring for this site leaves something to be desired. Notice how the cables are attached to wood blocks.

PMBS>Cingular>T-Mobile at The Grand Long Beach Event Center, 4101 East Willow St.
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Sprint microcell - Single Sector436 viewsA Sprint single sector microcell site on Mullholland Road in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles Cathedrial435 viewsA surface mount antenna site at the Los Angeles Cathedral.
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Tumwater Reservoir, Tumwater, Washington435 viewsNear the Tumwater Airport.
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Sprint's Drive Test Rover434 viewsThis is a Sprint vehicle used to receive the test signal emitted from the temporary transmitter van. This van drives a predetermined area collecting signal strength data for later mapping.
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Blessed Be This Cell Site434 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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Old Power Tower = New Cell Tower433 viewsThe power utility removed its wires from this old transmission tower, but still uses it to support a cell site.
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Park'n the Signal on the Roof431 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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Central Sedona Arizona431 viewsLocated at Fire Station 4 in Sedona, Arizona, this multicarrier site has an attractive backdrop.
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God Bless This Cell Site430 viewsLocated east of I-17 in Black Rock City, Arizona, this multicarrier site has an odd shaped antenna mounted directly to the tower. A message, perhaps?
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Multi-carrier Omnis and Panels429 viewsOn the west side of Interstate 5 in San Diego County, California.
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Tip-to-Tip 2 of 2429 viewsHere are four antennas mounted in a "tip-to-tip" configuration. Notice the faux antenna cover used to blend each of the two vertical antennas on the right side of the pole. Also clearly seen are the antenna downtilt mounts, and pole-mounted pre-amplifiers.

This site is located in San Francisco and shines signal on US101. The equipment cabinets for this site are seen in an adjacent photo in this gallery.
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A Real Education429 viewsThis Cingular site is located on the grounds of Fountain Valley (California) High School.
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External co-location monopole427 viewsOne way a co-location wireless site is created is by externally-mounting the cables and antennas to an existing monopole. This example shows what can happen when the added cables are not covered or otherwise specified to minimize visual impact.

The carriers at this site are Verizon Wireless and AT&T Wireless (now Cingular Wireless).
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PCS-Transmitter-in-a-Box427 viewsWhen a wireless carrier selects a candidate cell site it will usually conduct a 'drive test' to determine actual coverage. The drive test consists of elevating an antenna (here, an omnidirectional antenna) to a predetermined height. Inside the truck is a portable PCS transmitter powering the antenna.

This is a photo of the PCS transmitter used by Sprint in this drive test. What? You thought it would be larger?!
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Verizon MTSO Orange County427 viewsThis VZW MTSO (mobile telephone switching office) is in Santa Ana, California. The height of the tower is 60.7 meters AGL.
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Righty Tighty Lefty Loosy424 viewsIt's either a water tank or a big door knob. Oh yes, it has antennas on it.
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Co-location cell site422 viewsYACS: Yet another co-location site. Note the various microwave antennas on the monopole. Microwave antennas are used for backhaul to the MTSO, and save monthly recurring line lease costs (at the cost of increased visual load at the site).
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A Crown Castle Site in Mesa, Arizona422 viewsBig iron in Mesa. A Crown Castle site on Broadway near Country Club.
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Steel in the Air422 viewsThis AT&T wireless site is located on Highway 64, about 12 miles south of Valle, Arizona. It's mounted on a steel power transmission pole. Note the flat panel back-haul antenna located below the panels.
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Cell site on power transmission tower419 viewsHere's a fairly standard non-camo wireless site on a power transmission tower.
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Co-location cell sites on paired power transmission towers419 viewsThis is an example of co-location sites on adjacent power transmission towers.

Notice that the antenna panels and cables were not required to be painted to match the towers. Painting those elements would have positively impacted the result.
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Microcell - Two sectors419 viewsA two sector microcell on an Edison pole. Note the old (now abandoned) Metricom packet relay transceiver just below the cobra light head. Metricom is no more, but the equipment lives on.
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SFO Airport - Terminal 2/Admin Building418 viewsYup. There's the panel antenna.
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CoLo Site - Escondido, California416 viewsMesa Rock Road north of Deer Creek Road, Escondido, California.
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Lolipop Antenna Mount416 viewsA Lolipop antenna mount is a panel on top of a short pole. Here is on installed by Cricket Wireless in the San Diego, California market. Notice how the coaxial cables are protected within a metal tube.
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Sending out the word...to Los Angeles International Airport415 viewsThis is an AT&T Wireless site just north of LAX. It's a rather poor design Notice (1) the panels just above the roof line; the microwave panel antenna offset from the bell tower; and the cable runs down to the equipment building. A good design element (perhaps the only one) is the use of the brick face on AT&T's pre-fab building.
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NextG Distributed Antenna System Node413 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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NextG Distributed Antenna System Node413 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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Lighting the Lot413 viewsSprint's interesting little Mono-Parking-Lot-Light-Site in San Fernando, California
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Cell site in Salzburg, Austria412 viewsWhile in Salzburg to lecture at the Center for International Legal Studies I snapped this photo of a cell site across the street from my hotel room.
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Amish Area Cell Tower412 views...in Bird in Hand, Pennsylvania, in the heart of the Amish country.
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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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Microcell - Two Sectors410 viewsNotice the GPS antenna (the mushroom shaped device) on the crossarm.
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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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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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A Modest Cell Site?407 viewsThis water tank sports multiple panel antennas. Modesto, California.
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Cellular Billboard Sign407 viewsSpotted in Philadelphia.
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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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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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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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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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Take me to the Opera!401 viewsA parking lot light site at the Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe, NM.
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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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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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Ketchikan Me if you Kan397 viewsMulticarrier site in Ketchikan, Alaska
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Verizon MTSO San Diego 1 of 2388 viewsThis photo shows Verizon's Mobile Telephone Switching Office and tower in San Diego, California.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Santa Fe Country Club373 viewsMono-Golfball Screen
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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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Microcell - Two Sectors371 viewsYet another pole-mounted two-sector cell site.
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Sprint Omni Site371 viewsSprint's underground equipment vault
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Wireless site on a major transmission tower, Irvine, CA370 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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Omnidirectional to Sectorized369 viewsThese poles formerly supported omnidirectional cell antennas. The carrier increased capacity by replacing the omni antennas with sectorized panel antennas.
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Really, really flat vines on this pole!369 viewsA Spectrasite site in Montebello, CA.
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Arlington, VA Multicarrier Site369 views...at Washington Blvd. and 25th.
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A Terrible Missile Rises Over the New Mexico Horizon369 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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Parking the Signal368 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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Uninspired Cricket Wireless Site in Mesa, AZ368 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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Park'n the Signal on the Roof368 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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A Singular Pole for a Cingular Site368 viewsAmerican Tower leases this monopole to Cingular. It's located in Biggs, California (American Tower Site No. 82517).
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The Tower Company Tower368 viewsSounds circular, eh? Located in Chico, California.
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High Power - Higher Education368 viewsSprint has this site at the Irvine Valley College in Irvine, California.
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Santa Fe Country Club368 views
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Church Bell Tower Mount367 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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Cell Service, USN Style366 viewsThis is a photo of a cell site at the USN Amphibious Base in San Diego.
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Ketchikan Me if you Kan364 viewsMulticarrier site in Ketchikan, Alaska
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Color can make all the difference363 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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Ground level wireless site on hilltop - Overview363 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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Two Sectors - One into a hillside!363 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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Field of Signals362 viewsCingular's light standard site in the Thousand Oaks Park in Thousand Oaks, California.
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Grand Canyon Valle Airport360 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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A cell site on a power transmission monopole359 viewsIn Thousand Oaks, California. Note that the BTS equipment is underground.
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Power transmission pole - L.A. Dept. of Water & Power359 viewsThis power transmission pole, located in Tarzana, California, supports a cell site.
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359 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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Co-location cell site358 viewsYACS: Yet another co-location cell site.
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Sprint on a Stick in San Diego County358 views
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Spectrasite in Paramount, California357 viewsYet another Spectrasite installation, this time in Paramount, California (looking north).
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Church Bell Tower With External Antennas357 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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Salzburg, Austria cell site356 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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Multi Carriers on Multi Power Towers353 viewsThese antennas sites are located on SCE power transmission towers in Irvine, California.
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Manny, Moe and Jack353 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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Cell Call Box (Version 2)353 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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Building Topper352 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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Store that Signal!352 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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Monopole349 viewsA monopole site between Victorville, California and Littlerock, California. Carrier unknown.
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No, the tower legs are NOT two colors...349 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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Santa Fe Country Club349 viewsMono-Golfball Screen
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Oil's Well that Emits Well348 viewsOld oil wells can make good cell sites, even when a building has been built around the base!
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PCS Crown on PG&E Tower348 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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Two on a Stick347 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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