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Nextel's Cow and Sprint's Cow: Rose Bowl 2007591 viewsYet another photo of the two COWS (Sprint and Nextel) at the 2007 Rose Bowl Game.
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Yerba Buena Island Site Serving the Oakland Bay Bridge591 viewsFrom July, 2001: This multicarrier site is pumping RF along the upper and lower spans of the Oakland Bay Bridge. Located on Yerba Buena Island (on the south side of the spans), this is an interesting configuration, employing "tip-to-tip" construction.
June 2008: This site no long exists. It has been removed to make way for construction of the new Bay Bridge connection to Yerba Buena Island. -jlk
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Cell on Taxi ("CAT"?) No... It just Turkcell591 views
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591 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Close-up of a faux 'faux chimney'590 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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Cable Pulling Vault: Sprint's San Dimas Water Tank590 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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Blessed be the Signal From On High590 viewsVerizon's antennas are in the bell tower of this church in Pomona, California.
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AVEA (A & A) colo with Turk cell site589 viewsColo site: Avea and Turk
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Church Steeple Site in Long Beach, California589 viewsChurch Steeple Site
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Chester, PA Cell Site588 viewsAttention KMART shoppers! Now you can show for sundries and signal at the same time!
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A Flagpole Site588 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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Pulling Cables Inside a Monopalm588 viewsTechs are installing cables inside this legacy monopalm. Sepulveda Boulevard west of the I-405 in Los Angeles.
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Nextel Camo Site587 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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Surface mounted antennas sometimes just require matching paint586 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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It's a Gas! (Overview)586 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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The Sweet Taste of Signal586 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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Camo Site Overlooking LAX586 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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Nextel Camo Site - San Marcos, California586 viewsNextel's poorly-maintained camo site at a medical office building in San Marcos, California.
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles586 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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Sprint's San Dimas Water Tank - Entry Port585 viewsLooking up to the entry port of Sprint's water tank in San Dimas, California
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Central Sedona Arizona585 viewsThis multicarrier site is located at Fire Station 4 in Sedona, Arizona.
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PCS at City Hall584 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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It's a Gas! (Overview)584 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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Proud Waves From Sprint (2 of 3)584 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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Major Co-lo Site - San Clemente, California583 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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The Sweet Taste of Signal583 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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Faux church steeple - Nearly complete581 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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Verizon 'Small Cell' (Really a DAS node)580 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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Rebar cage for underground transmitter building - From ramp578 viewsAnother shot of the rebar that forms the soon-to-be underground transmitter building. The roadway in the background goes to the antenna site, adjacent to a camouflaged water tank.
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BTS Equipment Behind Monument Sign578 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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Use a Cell Phone: Go to Jail578 viewsSpotted in Las Vegas, New Mexico
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Faux church steeple - Looking inside577 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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Painting on the Sky 5 of 6577 viewsBill's painting on the sky!
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Nextel Camo Site - San Marcos, California577 viewsNextel's poorly-maintained camo site at a medical office building in San Marcos, California.
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Semi-camo tower576 viewsThe Santa Monica Mountains frame this cell site, located along Interstate 405 near the Getty Center in Los Angeles.
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NextG DAS - Norwalk, California576 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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Faux 'faux chimney'575 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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Hope (and signal) Sprints Eternal575 viewsAnother view of the camo antennas at Sprint's Hope Church site in Vista California.
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Pulling Cables Inside a Monopalm575 viewsTechs are installing cables inside this legacy monopalm. Sepulveda Boulevard west of the I-405 in Los Angeles.
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NextG Distributed Antenna System Node574 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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Two Cacti Site - Eagle Mountain Golf Course and Inn573 viewsSprint's site, designed by Larson-USA, is an outstanding deployment.
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Church Site573 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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Waterproofing the KMLT transmitter building572 viewsThe external concrete forms and braces have been removed; the outside is treated for waterproofing; and the pre-cast holes to permit conduit/cable entry are now visible.
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KMLT Panorama - Almost Done572 viewsThe site is nearly complete. Transmitter vault awaits a final hatch assembly.
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Looking at the entry area.570 viewsHere's a good look at the entry area and the conduits extending from the transmitter building to what will be underground when the earth is pushed back around the building.
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What time is it? Time to make a call!570 viewsSort-of camo site (antennas are on the corners of the clock tower). Thousand Oaks, CA.
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Antenna arrays mounted on transmission towers569 viewsClose-up view of an antenna array mounted on a power transmission tower.
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KMLT Panorama - Almost Done569 viewsThe site is nearly complete. Transmitter vault awaits a final hatch assembly.
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Wireless, with Cables569 viewsThis multicarrier site is at the upper station of the Mt. Roberts Tramway in Juneau, Alaska.
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View of the transmitter site from near the antenna site568 viewsHere's an updated view of the KMLT transmitter area take from about 600 fee up the hill (very near the antenna site).
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Sprint Camo Elevator Penthouse Site568 viewsA good detail shot of Sprint's antennas located in a faux elevator penthouse.
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Cell site crowning a power transmission tower567 viewsThis cell site, in Walnut Creek, California, is atop a PG&E power transmission tower.
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It Radiates Near Radiation567 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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Faux church steeple - Louvers detail566 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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Wood You Please Support These Antennas?566 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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Two on a Stick565 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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A Dam Tall Tower565 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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Tumwater Reservoir, Tumwater, Washington565 viewsNear the Tumwater Airport. Note the airport rotating aerodrome beacon on top of the tank.
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Sleep Wirelessly in San Pablo, California564 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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Waterproofing the KMLT transmitter building562 viewsAnother view of the transmitter building and the waterproofing.
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32. Looking down on the Activated Site562 viewsHere's the bird's-eye view looking down at the BTS equipment mounted on the far pad.
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AT&T's Upgraded Tree at Camp Pendleton Rest Stop562 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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Panoramic view of KMLT - 90% backfilled561 viewsThe entire 'back' portion of the transmitter building is now under dirt. Due to the new location of the trash bin, this panoramic photo is taken from a point to the north of the previous panoramic shots.
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Ground level wireless site on hilltop - CLOSE UP560 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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2. Routing the Antenna Cables up to the Roof559 viewsThe coaxial cables for the antennas, including the GPS antenna, are loosely placed against teh wall going up to the roof. As you'll see later, these cables will be secured in a cable tray. At this time the GPS antenna is not yet installed.
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Nextel Cow: Rose Bowl 2006559 viewsNextel's Cow at the 2006 Rose Bowl.
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Tarzana, California559 viewsClark Avenue
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BTS Equipment Behind Monument Sign558 viewsAt California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California. The antennas are in the radome atop the parking lot lights (not seen in this photo), and the BTS equipment is in the background behind the monument entry sign.
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Generator Socket557 viewsThis is a standby power generator socket to provide power to the cell site during local commercial power failures
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Camo Site in Shopping Center557 viewsThe camo site is located in the clocktower of this shopping center.
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Major Co-lo Site - San Clemente, California557 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 east. You can see the Cingular BTS. The antennas for this sector are located behind RF transparent panels just below the roof.
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What's Red and Whilte and Radiates All Over557 views...it's this T-Mobile lattice tower in Gridley, California.
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14. Installing the Telco Interface and Power Switching Cabinets557 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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Monopoles at Apache Junction, AZ City Hall Campus557 viewsMonopoles at Apache Junction, AZ City Hall Campus
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design557 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Looking at Eagles556 viewsAn off-site view of Larson-USA's two cactus design at the Eagle Mountain Inn in Arizona.
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Super Signal From Super 8556 viewsCingular built this camo site below a sign at the Super 8 Motel in Azusa, California. For some reason the radome cover is missing, exposing the three sector antennas to public view.
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Don't worry...the ladder will be removed before the concrete is poured.556 viewsWorkers preping the CEV for the concrete pour. The large holes are to connect to what will be intake and outflow air vents yet to be installed.
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Birds on Blue Unique Cell Site Design - Public Art556 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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1. Antennas to be Hidden in Clock Tower555 viewsThree of four sides of the exsting clock tower had walls partially removed to permit the installation of RF-transparent fiberglass panels. As you'll see later, once the antennas are installed behind the panels, the panels are painted and textured to match the rest of the structure, thus hiding the antenna locations.
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DAS Outboard on Power Meter555 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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Cell site on power transmission pole553 viewsThis site in located in British Columbia, Canada.
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Equipment Cabinets, GPS and LMU antennas553 viewsCingular's equipment cabinets are mounted in the hardscape area between the curb and sidewalk.
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Park'n the Signal on the Roof553 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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Monopole552 viewsA monopole site between Victorville, California and Littlerock, California. Carrier unknown.
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Major Macrocell Site (multiple carriers)551 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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Spectrasite co-location site551 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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Light Standard Under Construction551 viewsThe double arms of this light standard, and the radome containing the antennas above the arms are yet to be placed.
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Nextel's Cow and Sprint's Cow: Rose Bowl 2007551 viewsThese Cows belong to Nextel and Sprint. This herd spotted at the 2007 Rose Bowl.
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The Herd at the 2007 Rose Bowl550 viewsNextel, Sprint, and AT&T "cover" the 2007 Rose Bowl Game.
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Multi-carrier cell site and TVRO downlink549 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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KMLT's Antenna Fence Under Construction549 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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A parking lot light site at the Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe, NM.547 viewsMulti-carrier sites (on parking lot lights) at the Santa Fe Opera in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Faux 'faux chimney' - A Different Angle546 viewsFrom this angle, Cingular's faux chimney on the front of a real estate office is a good design, but things aren't as they seem. See the view of this faux chimney from the other side to see why its inferior.
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Microcell - Two Sectors545 viewsHigh gain (directional) antennas facing up/down the highway.
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About 75 percent of the building is buried545 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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Sprint Camo Elevator Penthouse Site545 viewsIn West Los Angeles, Sprint's antennas are located in a faux elevator penthouse, and the base telecommunications station equipment is in the foreground on the left side.
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Cell Site Generator Plug and Breaker/Switch-over Panel544 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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Outback with the Signal544 viewsNextel's antennas are inside the lower portion of the sign. The GPS antenna is mounted to one of the legs of the sign. Norwalk, California, overlooking Interstate 5.
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The walls are up...543 viewsThe concrete calls are poured and are hardening. Next, in about 6 days, comes the roof pour and cure.
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543 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Palms guarding cell site - circa 2001542 viewsHere's a photo of a PCS site I photographed sometime in 2001. Notice that its 'in the middle of nowhere.' Fast forward to the shot of the same site I took in October, 2004.
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Got Desert?542 viewsThis little Verizon 3-sector site sites atop a wood pole in Victorville, California. The BTS equipment is in the fenced area to the left, and the telco and power panels are to the right.
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Cricket in Santa Fe542 viewsThe Fashion Outlets of Santa Fe hosts this Cricket site.
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Power transmission pole - Underground equipment shelter539 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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A Sign of the T-Mobile Times539 viewsThis furniture store sign supports T-Mobile's sectorized antennas. National City, California (south of San Diego). The furniture store is out of business.
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A Well-Done Grilled FM Station539 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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Lots of signal!538 viewsThis is a co-location site located south of Worcester, MA.
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Das da ticket!538 viewsAT&T uses a distributed antenna system (DAS) to light this site on Valley Circle in the San Fernando Valley (Los Angeles County). The DAS node, manufactured by Andrew Corporation, is the small box affixed to the larger power meter pedestal cabinet.
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8 foot antenna on building538 viewsA rather ugly 8' antenna stuck on the side of a building in Tarzana, California
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Co-location cell site537 viewsThe lower array was added after the tower was constructed. How do we know? Many of the cables for that array are mounted on the outside of the pole on the righthand side.
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Time Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area537 viewsTime Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area. Manufactured by BelAir Networks.
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Panoramic view of the KMLT work site and antenna (Roof on)536 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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535 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design535 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Rocket South of Santa Fe on I-25533 viewsOne of the worst located sites I have ever run across.
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Panoramic view of the KMLT work site and antenna (Waterproofing)532 viewsThis panoramic view shows the worksite, the antenna and tower, and the transmitter building with the waterproofing applied to the walls.
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Columns of Signal532 viewsThe columns at the top are built with RF transparent materials. The antennas are located inside the columns of this church. The base station equipment is located at teh lower right site. This church is located in San Juan Capistrano, California.
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design532 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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NextG DAS - Encinitas, California531 views
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Blessed Be This Cell Site530 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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CoLo Site - Escondido, California530 viewsMesa Rock Road north of Deer Creek Road, Escondido, California.
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Where's the Transmitter?529 viewsLooking down from near the antenna, the underground FM transmitter housing is nowhere to be seen! May 2006.
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CEV ready for concrete pour529 viewsJust waiting on the transit mixer to show up.
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Oh thank heavens for RF from 7-11528 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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Panoramic view of KMLT - 75% backfilled528 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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KMLT's Antenna Fence Under Construction528 viewsAnother view of the antenna, and the fence being constructed is to keep the hikers away from the antenna site.
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Gimme a Transmitter with Mustard!528 viewsAnother view of the at-grade grill over the transmitter room at KMLT. May 2006
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Looking at the rear of the CEV.528 viewsA good shot of the base and read of the CEV dig hole.
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Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosey528 viewsWater tank site or giant doorknob in Maryland.
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Close-up of GPS Antenna and LMU Antenna527 viewsCingular's GPS antenna (left) and the LMU antenna are mounted at about the 5 foot level adjacent to the sidewalk. It's amazing that they're still there. Hope no pedestrians walk into the bracket at night.
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