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32. Looking down on the Activated Site660 viewsHere's the bird's-eye view looking down at the BTS equipment mounted on the far pad.
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BTS Equipment Behind Mounment Sign659 viewsCloseup of the equipment behind the monument entry sign at CLU.
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Gallons of Fun659 viewsVerizon's Sassy site has a standby power generator. This above-ground tank holds 305 gallons of fuel. It's inside the main equipment area, which is physically separated from the power generator by about 50 feet.
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Hint: It's Not Canneroni658 viewsThese are three section covers of a faux flagpole barely in the City of Los Angeles, California. They're off while Cingular works on its antennas (see the photos in this gallery).
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Highland View Pentecostal Assembly - Los Angeles658 viewsThis site's antennas are built into a add-on box on the bell tower.
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Hope (and signal) Sprints Eternal658 viewsAnother view of the camo antennas at Sprint's Hope Church site in Vista California.
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Cell on Taxi ("CAT"?) No... It just Turkcell658 views
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Nextel Camo Site - Completed657 viewsElsewhere in this gallery you'll find a photo of this site while under construction. This photo shows the completed site.
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14. Installing the Telco Interface and Power Switching Cabinets657 viewsThe large cabinet on the right (with the open door) is to house the telco interface. A telco dataline is used to connect this cell site back to Verizon's mobile telephone switching office. The two smaller cabinets on the left, starting at the far left, are the power breaker panel, and the power generator transfer switch. The transfer switch senses loss of commercial power and automatically starts the generator (yet to be installed) and transfers power to the generator once stabilized. The reverse occurs when the commercial power is restored for a minimum period of time.
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Just Signal656 viewsThis Cingular-constructed site in Irvine California has its antennas above the clocks. It's located at a "Just Tires" store.
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KMLT's Antenna Fence Under Construction655 viewsAnother view of the antenna, and the fence being constructed is to keep the hikers away from the antenna site.
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design655 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Panoramic view of the KMLT work site and antenna (Roof on)654 viewsThis is an updated panoramic shot of the job site and antenna. The roof is now on the building. Photo taken on a weekend (no workers present).
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Cingular BTS654 viewsThis BTS installation at a Cingular site in Tustin, California is somewhat interesting as it is mounted between two buildings. The faux chimney antenna sites at this location are detailed in other photographs.
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It's a Gas!653 viewsUSA Gas in Irvine, California sports this nifty T-Mobile flag site. Cingular has a proposal to change out the flagpole for a dual-carrier flagpole.
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KMLT's Antenna Fence Under Construction652 viewsThe fence being constructed is to keep the hikers in the area away from the antenna site. At the time this photo was snapped KMLT was operating from its old (aux) transmitter site some miles away.
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AVEA (A & A) colo with Turk cell site652 viewsColo site: Avea and Turk
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Highland View Pentecostal Assembly - Los Angeles651 viewsCloseup of the antenna camo boxes on the bell tower. The construction is not very good.
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Surface mounted antennas sometimes just require matching paint650 viewsThis surface mount wireless site is less visible due to the use of matching paint on the antenna radomes. Less visible, but not a true camouflage site.
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PCS at City Hall650 viewsThis Sprint site at the Redondo Beach, California City Hall also supports public safety radio antennas above and below the panels.
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29. Which Way Tray?650 viewsIt's now January, 2006. The site is active (but without a backup power generator). It seems that the installers missed putting all of the covers on the cable tray. Too bad.
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Generator Socket648 viewsThis is a standby power generator socket to provide power to the cell site during local commercial power failures
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NextG Distributed Antenna System Node648 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 DAS - Norwalk, California648 viewsCloseup of NextG Networks DAS light standard node in Norwalk, California. Note the cut-off box grated to the side of the Andrews ION fiber optic node.
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I'll take fries with that signal648 viewsMcDonalds sort-of-camo site in San Diego County
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Multi-sector camo panels647 viewsThis is an interesting, albeit less than good example of externally mounting panels in camo boxes. Notice how the antenna panel cables are visible above the left-hand panel box, and below the right-hand panel box.
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What's Red and Whilte and Radiates All Over647 views...it's this T-Mobile lattice tower in Gridley, California.
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A Dam Tall Tower647 viewsThis tall tower, well, towers over Hoover Dam in Nevada and/or Arizona. I guess it depends in which state you live. This tower is on the Nevada side.
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Nextel Cow: Rose Bowl 2006647 viewsNextel's Cow at the 2006 Rose Bowl.
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About 75 percent of the building is buried645 viewsThe backfill is covering the building up to about the 75% level. Soon it will be completely buried, and the transmitter and related equipment will be moved in.
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What time is it? Time to make a call!644 viewsSort-of camo site (antennas are on the corners of the clock tower). Thousand Oaks, CA.
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644 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Panoramic view of KMLT - 75% backfilled643 viewsThis panoramic photo of the site shows the building backfill nearly complete. Soon it will be time to move in the transmitter and related equipment.
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BTS Equipment, Bottom of Faux Chimney642 viewsThis Cingular-built site in El Segundo, California, now owned by T-Mobile, overlooks LAX. The building houses a mortuary. In this picture you see the BTS equipment and the cables feeding to the bottom of the faux chimney. A steeple on the LAX side of the building serves the airport.
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It Radiates Near Radiation642 viewsThis is a monopole owned by American Tower located in Los Alamos, New Mexico. They work on things there that are better left unspoken (absent a suitable security clearance, that it).
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Nextel Camo Site641 viewsThis Nextel camo site is located in Sunnyvale, California. Not seen in this photo is a flat panel (diamond) microwave antenna that is roof mounted.
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Cell Pine Cable Port641 viewsConsider this a shot of the roots of the cell pine. Actually, it's one of two cable ports on the side of our little tree.
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Saguaro Rocks!641 viewsYet another photo of Larson-USA's Fountain Hills, Arizona site for Cingular.
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A "Sort-a-flaged" Site641 viewsLearning the techniques...and the results...of planning wireless sites can be demonstrated by this site. This result serves as a sound basis to continue to upgrade the camouflage techniques that are applied to projects of this type. Optimally, Sprint's BTS cabinet would not be visible, and the RF transparent panels would be incorporated into a rooftop treatment that doesn't call attention to itself. Thanks to Larry Thomas for identifying this as a Sprint site.
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The Sweet Taste of Signal641 viewsCingular and an unidentified second carrier use this old sugar silo in Loveland, Colorado. Photo by Steve Allen of Kramer.Firm, Inc. Loveland Sugar Co.
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Church Steeple Site in Long Beach, California641 viewsChurch Steeple Site
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Pulling Cables Inside a Monopalm640 viewsTechs are installing cables inside this legacy monopalm. Sepulveda Boulevard west of the I-405 in Los Angeles.
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The Sweet Taste of Signal639 viewsCloseup of the Cingular and unidentified second carrier panels and microwave in use on this old silo in Loveland, Colorado. Photo by Steve Allen of Kramer.Firm, Inc. Loveland Sugar Co.
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Cable Pulling Vault: Sprint's San Dimas Water Tank638 viewsThe cables from the BTS to the antennas pass through this pulling vault, then go up the legs of the tank to the antennas.
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Chester, PA Cell Site637 viewsAttention KMART shoppers! Now you can show for sundries and signal at the same time!
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Panoramic view of the KMLT work site and antenna (Zoom shot)637 viewsThis close-up panoramic shot shows the transmitter site as seen (well, actually, not seen) from near the antenna site.
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It's a Gas!637 viewsCompare this photo, taken in June, 2001, with the photo of the same site taken in May 2005. You'll see the original antenna in the center of each sector. Much cleaner than the replacement design. City of Los Angeles (Brentwood area).
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BTS Equipment Behind Mounment Sign637 viewsCloseup of the equipment behind the monument entry sign at CLU.
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A Flagpole Site637 viewsThis is an AT&T Wireless site, later Cingular, shining signal in San Diego on the I-5 Freeway and the Coronado Bay Bridge.
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Two on a Stick636 viewsSprint's BTS equipment is located in the large flush-to-grade vault. It's flush vents bracket the BTS vault.
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The Sweet Taste of Signal636 viewsCingular and an unidentified second carrier use this old silo in Loveland, Colorado. Photo by Steve Allen of Kramer.Firm, Inc.
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Cable route in/out of the CEV636 viewsThis trench will house the power and telephone cable conduits into and out of the CEV, as well as the coaxial cables to the base of the light standard.
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Where's the Transmitter?635 viewsLooking down from near the antenna, the underground FM transmitter housing is nowhere to be seen! May 2006.
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Cell site on power transmission pole634 viewsThis site in located in British Columbia, Canada.
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Faux church steeple - nearing completion634 viewsThe faux church steeple to be used as a cell site is nearing completion. Photo courtesy of Peabody Engineering.
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Major Co-lo Site - San Clemente, California634 viewsCo-location camo site (Sprint, Verizon, Nextel, Cingular) at St. Andrews by the Sea United Methodist Church, San Clemente.
This camo sector shines to the south. The antennas for this sector are located behind RF transparent panels just below the roof. One of the panels doesn't match, does it?
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Close-up of a faux 'faux chimney'634 viewsHere's a close-up of Cingular's faux chimney on the rear of a real estate office. Notice how the panel antenna protrudes above the level of the faux chimney. Not good.
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Drunk Tank?634 viewsVerizon's 'drunk tank' in Littlerock, California.
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It's a Gas! (Overview)633 viewsCompare this photo, taken in May 2005, with the photo of the same site taken in June 2001. You'll see the replacement of the center antenna in each sector. Not nearly as clean as the original design. City of Los Angeles (Brentwood area).
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633 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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The walls are up...632 viewsThe concrete calls are poured and are hardening. Next, in about 6 days, comes the roof pour and cure.
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Cell Pine - Overview632 viewsHere's an overview photo of a cell pine (monopine) standing alone in a shopping center in Walnut, California.
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Blessed be the Signal From On High632 viewsVerizon's antennas are in the bell tower of this church in Pomona, California.
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The Sweet Taste of Signal632 viewsAnother view of the old Loveland Sugar Co. silo, now used as an antenna support for two carriers (Cingular plus an unidentified carrier).
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Time Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area632 viewsTime Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area. Manufactured by BelAir Networks.
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Blessed Be This Cell Site631 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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Rocket South of Santa Fe on I-25630 viewsOne of the worst located sites I have ever run across.
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Park'n the Signal on the Roof629 viewsNotice how the coax ground wires are far from supported, attached, and protected at this site. This is a violation of the NEC 810.21(C) and (D) et seq.
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A Well-Done Grilled FM Station629 viewsKMLT's transmitter housing present appearance as of May, 2006 is virtually invisible. Easy to miss. Exactly what was intended! Outstanding work by Chris Hicks, KMLT's CE, the City of Thousand Oaks Planning department, and the Conejo Open Space Conservation Agency
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Now the walls are up...628 views...another view with the side walls poured. The roof is yet to come.
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Cell site crowning a power transmission tower627 viewsThis cell site, in Walnut Creek, California, is atop a PG&E power transmission tower.
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It's a Gas! (Overview)627 viewsCompare this photo, taken in June, 2001, with the photo of the same site taken in May 2005. You'll see the original antenna in the center of each sector. Much cleaner than the replacement design. City of Los Angeles (Brentwood area).
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Looking at the rear of the CEV.627 viewsA good shot of the base and read of the CEV dig hole.
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Antenna arrays mounted on transmission towers626 viewsClose-up view of an antenna array mounted on a power transmission tower.
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Faux 'faux chimney'626 viewsCingular's faux chimney on the rear of a real estate office is a better design than the front faux chimney, yet this chimney suffers from one of the same faults as the front: the panel antenna protrudes above the level of the faux chimney.
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27. The Name Goes On Before the Quality Goes In626 viewsThe pad has been poured, again, and the fense is on it's tracks. No BTS yet, but the site sign has gone up announcing to the world that this is Verizon's Armacost site!
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Camo Site Overlooking LAX626 viewsThis apartment building sports mutiple carries in the faux parapet. This site, in El Segundo overlooks LAX. It appears to have 3 carriers co-located here.
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Cricket in Santa Fe626 viewsThe Fashion Outlets of Santa Fe hosts this Cricket site.
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Tarzana, California626 viewsClark Avenue
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Ground level wireless site on hilltop - CLOSE UP625 viewsThis is a close-up of a cell site atop a hill above a major Interstate Highway. The antennas are mounted at ground level.
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BTS Equipment Behind Monument Sign625 viewsAt California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California. The antennas are in the radome atop the parking lot lights (seen in this background right of this photo), and the BTS equipment is behind the monument entry sign.
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Sprint's San Dimas Water Tank - Entry Port625 viewsLooking up to the entry port of Sprint's water tank in San Dimas, California
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Nextel's Cow and Sprint's Cow: Rose Bowl 2007625 viewsThese Cows belong to Nextel and Sprint. This herd spotted at the 2007 Rose Bowl.
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Pulling Cables Inside a Monopalm625 viewsTechs are installing cables inside this legacy monopalm. Sepulveda Boulevard west of the I-405 in Los Angeles.
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AT&T's Upgraded Tree at Camp Pendleton Rest Stop625 viewsAT&T has just upgraded this monopine site to 4G and materially improved the camouflage. Much better than before. N/B I-5 at the rest stop.
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KMLT's Roof is On624 viewsIn three weeks the roof will cure and dirt will be pushed to close in the hole.
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31. Cable Termination to BTS Jumpers623 viewsHere's a nice photo of the the cable terminations for the hardline cable to/from the roof, and the jumper to the equipment cabinet. The colored bands identify what cable is connected to what antenna.
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Nextel Camo Site - San Marcos, California623 viewsNextel's poorly-maintained camo site at a medical office building in San Marcos, California.
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The Herd at the 2007 Rose Bowl623 viewsNextel, Sprint, and AT&T "cover" the 2007 Rose Bowl Game.
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Church Site622 viewsThis church site in San Diego is interesting because the of the add-on to the church (on the left side) to house AT&T's base station equipment. The antennas are located in the steeple.
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Proud Waves From Sprint (2 of 3)621 viewsSprint's installation at the Scottsdale Ranch Community Center features two flagpoles in a nicely landscaped area adjacent to a lake.
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33. Personals Ad: "Concrete Pad Sks Standby Pwr Gen!"621 viewsAs noted above, the standby power generator isn't (yet) installed here. Who knows...maybe it'll never be installed, but if it is, this is where it'll go.
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DAS Outboard on Power Meter621 viewsOnce more, Cingular (now AT&T) employs the cabinet-on-a-cabinet technique of placing its DAS note, here in Rolling Hills Estates, California.
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Monopole620 viewsA monopole site between Victorville, California and Littlerock, California. Carrier unknown.
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BTS Equipment Enclosure620 viewsSprint's BTS equipment is located in this CMU walled enclosure at the Hope Church site in Vista, California.
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Nextel Camo Site - San Marcos, California620 viewsNextel's poorly-maintained camo site at a medical office building in San Marcos, California.
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Power transmission pole - Underground equipment shelter619 viewsThis cell site, on a power transmission pole, is connected to a controlled environment vault ("CEV"). The CEV is an underground room housing the equipment. The hatch for the CEV is the green box show below and to the left of the pole.
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Monopoles at Apache Junction, AZ City Hall Campus619 viewsMonopoles at Apache Junction, AZ City Hall Campus
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Elevated Water Tank Cell Site618 viewsArtwork adorns this 4-level multi-carrier water tank site near Philadelphia.
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Wood You Please Support These Antennas?618 viewsUbiquitel uses wood panels to replace antennas not installed on the two-antenna mounts atop this PG&E power tower in Oakhurst, California. This site is at 2765 Powerline Road.
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Wireless, with Cables617 viewsThis multicarrier site is at the upper station of the Mt. Roberts Tramway in Juneau, Alaska.
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Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosey617 viewsWater tank site or giant doorknob in Maryland.
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Pulling Cables Inside a Monopalm616 viewsTechs are installing cables inside this legacy monopalm. Sepulveda Boulevard west of the I-405 in Los Angeles.
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A parking lot light site at the Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe, NM.616 viewsMulti-carrier sites (on parking lot lights) at the Santa Fe Opera in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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CEV ready for concrete pour614 viewsJust waiting on the transit mixer to show up.
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8 foot antenna on building614 viewsA rather ugly 8' antenna stuck on the side of a building in Tarzana, California
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Faux church steeple - Nearly complete613 viewsThe faux church steeple to be used as a cell site is nearly complete. Final matching will occur on site. The RF-transparent louvers are to be installed after this photo, but before delivery to the job site. Photo courtesy of Peabody Engineering.
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Faux church steeple - Louvers detail613 viewsThe faux church steeple will be completed with louvers. This photograph is a close-up of the louver detail. These louvers are transparent to radio frequency signals. Photo courtesy of Peabody Engineering.
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3. Base Telecommunications Station Equipment613 viewsThis new addition to the existing structure at the rear of the building is to house the BTS equipment, plus a future standby power generator, power switching equipment, and a telephone interface panel. The standby power generator pad is the the one nearest the fence. The BTS equpipment pad is to the rear-left in this photo. Later, things will change a bit...oops!
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Multi-carrier cell site and TVRO downlink612 viewsThe multiple carrier tower isn't connected with the TVRO satellite antennas in front, but it makes for a nice picture. This site is located in northern San Antonio, Texas at a very large church facility. An interesting note: The antenna structure registration number shown on the site is, per the FCC's database, cancelled. Interesting!
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design612 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Panoramic view near antenna looking at the KMLT work site611 viewsHere's a good overview of the KMLT transmitter site, under construction, and the City of Thousand Oaks in the background. The camera position is about 30 feet south of the antenna.
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Equipment Cabinets, GPS and LMU antennas610 viewsCingular's equipment cabinets are mounted in the hardscape area between the curb and sidewalk.
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30. BTS Installed and Humming610 viewsThe site is active. This photo is looking down on the site BTS equipment cabinet through the roof fence. You'll see more of the fense in a later photo.
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Spectrasite co-location site609 viewsThis Spectrasite cell/microwave site is located in Carson, California. The tower is registered to what is now Verizon Wireless. Note how the microwave antennas are identified by code to permit identification of specific microwave antennas from ground level. It's located in an "Enterprise" zone (sorry...inside joke).
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Hope (and signal) Sprints Eternal609 viewsAnother view of the camo antennas at Sprint's Hope Church site in Vista California.
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So-so Camo'ed Pop-Up Site in Los Angeles (San Fernando Valley)609 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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Major Macrocell Site (multiple carriers)608 viewsThis is an example of a traditional multiple carrier macrocell site. Note the large microwave antennas facing to the right: They are used to provide high-reliability connection of this site to the MTSO some 25 miles away.
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design607 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Microcell - Two Sectors606 viewsHigh gain (directional) antennas facing up/down the highway.
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Faux church steeple - Looking inside606 viewsThe faux church steeple to be used as a cell site has plenty of room inside for antenna installation. Photo courtesy of Peabody Engineering.
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Blessed Be This Cell Site606 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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Oh thank heavens for RF from 7-11605 viewsHere's an example of a microcell designed to illuminate a road segment for adding spot capacity. Notice that the apartment (right of the antenna) is just off the main lobe beam.
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Two Cacti Site - Eagle Mountain Golf Course and Inn605 viewsSprint's site, designed by Larson-USA, is an outstanding deployment.
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CoLo Site - Escondido, California605 viewsMesa Rock Road north of Deer Creek Road, Escondido, California.
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Sleep Wirelessly in San Pablo, California604 viewsMetroPCS site inside the legs of a Holiday Inn Express sign. For more views of this site, visit http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/ex/1/en/hotel/spoca?_requestid=302192.
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Cell Site Generator Plug and Breaker/Switch-over Panel603 viewsMany cell sites must operate 24/7, even in the event of a commercial power failure. Most carriers have standby power generators that can be driven to cell sites and plugged in to a generator plug such as the one shown to the right of the breaker/switch-over panel. This facility is owned by AT&T Wireless. It's in the western part of Los Angeles.
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NextG DAS - Encinitas, California603 views
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Sprint Camo Elevator Penthouse Site602 viewsA good detail shot of Sprint's antennas located in a faux elevator penthouse.
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Yahoo! What a site!601 viewsThis omnidirection site is in Santa Monica, California. The GPS antenna is the right (north) of the antennas on the roof.
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Great Scott!601 viewsYet another view of a pole-mounted cell site in Scottsdale, Arizona. Notice the LMU antenna mounted at the top.
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NextG Distributed Antenna System Node601 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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600 viewsClose up of the Fountain Hills three sector site atop a traffic and light standard.
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