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Yerba Buena Island Site Serving the Oakland Bay Bridge658 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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Highland View Pentecostal Assembly - Los Angeles657 viewsThis site's antennas are built into a add-on box on the bell tower.
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Hope (and signal) Sprints Eternal657 viewsAnother view of the camo antennas at Sprint's Hope Church site in Vista California.
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Just Signal655 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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Gallons of Fun655 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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Cell on Taxi ("CAT"?) No... It just Turkcell655 views
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Nextel Camo Site - Completed654 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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Hint: It's Not Canneroni654 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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Yet another awful Mobilitie design653 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Panoramic view of the KMLT work site and antenna (Roof on)652 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 BTS652 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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KMLT's Antenna Fence Under Construction651 viewsAnother view of the antenna, and the fence being constructed is to keep the hikers away from the antenna site.
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It's a Gas!651 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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14. Installing the Telco Interface and Power Switching Cabinets651 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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AVEA (A & A) colo with Turk cell site651 viewsColo site: Avea and Turk
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KMLT's Antenna Fence Under Construction649 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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Highland View Pentecostal Assembly - Los Angeles649 viewsCloseup of the antenna camo boxes on the bell tower. The construction is not very good.
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29. Which Way Tray?648 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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Surface mounted antennas sometimes just require matching paint647 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 Hall647 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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Multi-sector camo panels646 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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A Dam Tall Tower646 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 2006646 viewsNextel's Cow at the 2006 Rose Bowl.
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NextG DAS - Norwalk, California646 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 signal645 viewsMcDonalds sort-of-camo site in San Diego County
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What's Red and Whilte and Radiates All Over644 views...it's this T-Mobile lattice tower in Gridley, California.
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Generator Socket643 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 Node643 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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About 75 percent of the building is buried642 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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Panoramic view of KMLT - 75% backfilled641 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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641 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Cell Pine Cable Port639 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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It Radiates Near Radiation639 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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What time is it? Time to make a call!639 viewsSort-of camo site (antennas are on the corners of the clock tower). Thousand Oaks, CA.
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Church Steeple Site in Long Beach, California639 viewsChurch Steeple Site
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Nextel Camo Site638 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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Saguaro Rocks!638 viewsYet another photo of Larson-USA's Fountain Hills, Arizona site for Cingular.
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The Sweet Taste of Signal638 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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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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A "Sort-a-flaged" Site637 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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BTS Equipment, Bottom of Faux Chimney637 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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Chester, PA Cell Site636 viewsAttention KMART shoppers! Now you can show for sundries and signal at the same time!
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A Flagpole Site636 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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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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Pulling Cables Inside a Monopalm636 viewsTechs are installing cables inside this legacy monopalm. Sepulveda Boulevard west of the I-405 in Los Angeles.
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BTS Equipment Behind Mounment Sign635 viewsCloseup of the equipment behind the monument entry sign at CLU.
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Cable Pulling Vault: Sprint's San Dimas Water Tank635 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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The Sweet Taste of Signal635 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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The Sweet Taste of Signal635 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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It's a Gas!634 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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Two on a Stick634 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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Where's the Transmitter?634 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 pole632 viewsThis site in located in British Columbia, Canada.
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Faux church steeple - nearing completion632 viewsThe faux church steeple to be used as a cell site is nearing completion. Photo courtesy of Peabody Engineering.
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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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Close-up of a faux 'faux chimney'632 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?632 viewsVerizon's 'drunk tank' in Littlerock, California.
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It's a Gas! (Overview)631 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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Time Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area631 viewsTime Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area. Manufactured by BelAir Networks.
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Blessed be the Signal From On High630 viewsVerizon's antennas are in the bell tower of this church in Pomona, California.
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The Sweet Taste of Signal630 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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630 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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The walls are up...629 viewsThe concrete calls are poured and are hardening. Next, in about 6 days, comes the roof pour and cure.
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Major Co-lo Site - San Clemente, California629 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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Now the walls are up...627 views...another view with the side walls poured. The roof is yet to come.
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Park'n the Signal on the Roof627 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 Station627 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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Blessed Be This Cell Site626 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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Looking at the rear of the CEV.625 viewsA good shot of the base and read of the CEV dig hole.
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Rocket South of Santa Fe on I-25625 viewsOne of the worst located sites I have ever run across.
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It's a Gas! (Overview)624 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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Faux 'faux chimney'624 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 In624 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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Nextel's Cow and Sprint's Cow: Rose Bowl 2007624 viewsThese Cows belong to Nextel and Sprint. This herd spotted at the 2007 Rose Bowl.
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Cricket in Santa Fe624 viewsThe Fashion Outlets of Santa Fe hosts this Cricket site.
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Tarzana, California624 viewsClark Avenue
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Antenna arrays mounted on transmission towers623 viewsClose-up view of an antenna array mounted on a power transmission tower.
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Cell site crowning a power transmission tower623 viewsThis cell site, in Walnut Creek, California, is atop a PG&E power transmission tower.
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Camo Site Overlooking LAX623 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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Pulling Cables Inside a Monopalm623 viewsTechs are installing cables inside this legacy monopalm. Sepulveda Boulevard west of the I-405 in Los Angeles.
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BTS Equipment Behind Monument Sign622 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 Port622 viewsLooking up to the entry port of Sprint's water tank in San Dimas, California
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Nextel Camo Site - San Marcos, California622 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 Bowl622 viewsNextel, Sprint, and AT&T "cover" the 2007 Rose Bowl Game.
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AT&T's Upgraded Tree at Camp Pendleton Rest Stop622 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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Ground level wireless site on hilltop - CLOSE UP621 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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KMLT's Roof is On620 viewsIn three weeks the roof will cure and dirt will be pushed to close in the hole.
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Church Site620 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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31. Cable Termination to BTS Jumpers620 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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Proud Waves From Sprint (2 of 3)619 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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BTS Equipment Enclosure619 viewsSprint's BTS equipment is located in this CMU walled enclosure at the Hope Church site in Vista, California.
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DAS Outboard on Power Meter618 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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33. Personals Ad: "Concrete Pad Sks Standby Pwr Gen!"617 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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Nextel Camo Site - San Marcos, California617 viewsNextel's poorly-maintained camo site at a medical office building in San Marcos, California.
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Wood You Please Support These Antennas?616 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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616 views
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Monopoles at Apache Junction, AZ City Hall Campus616 viewsMonopoles at Apache Junction, AZ City Hall Campus
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Semi-camo tower615 viewsThe Santa Monica Mountains frame this cell site, located along Interstate 405 near the Getty Center in Los Angeles.
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Power transmission pole - Underground equipment shelter615 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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615 views
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Wireless, with Cables615 viewsThis multicarrier site is at the upper station of the Mt. Roberts Tramway in Juneau, Alaska.
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Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosey615 viewsWater tank site or giant doorknob in Maryland.
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Elevated Water Tank Cell Site614 viewsArtwork adorns this 4-level multi-carrier water tank site near Philadelphia.
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Pulling Cables Inside a Monopalm613 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.612 viewsMulti-carrier sites (on parking lot lights) at the Santa Fe Opera in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Faux church steeple - Nearly complete611 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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Monopole611 viewsA monopole site between Victorville, California and Littlerock, California. Carrier unknown.
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CEV ready for concrete pour611 viewsJust waiting on the transit mixer to show up.
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Panoramic view near antenna looking at the KMLT work site610 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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Faux church steeple - Louvers detail610 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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8 foot antenna on building610 viewsA rather ugly 8' antenna stuck on the side of a building in Tarzana, California
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30. BTS Installed and Humming608 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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Hope (and signal) Sprints Eternal608 viewsAnother view of the camo antennas at Sprint's Hope Church site in Vista California.
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Multi-carrier cell site and TVRO downlink607 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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So-so Camo'ed Pop-Up Site in Los Angeles (San Fernando Valley)607 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)606 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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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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Yet another awful Mobilitie design606 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design605 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Spectrasite co-location site604 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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Equipment Cabinets, GPS and LMU antennas604 viewsCingular's equipment cabinets are mounted in the hardscape area between the curb and sidewalk.
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Microcell - Two Sectors603 viewsHigh gain (directional) antennas facing up/down the highway.
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Blessed Be This Cell Site603 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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Two Cacti Site - Eagle Mountain Golf Course and Inn602 viewsSprint's site, designed by Larson-USA, is an outstanding deployment.
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CoLo Site - Escondido, California601 viewsMesa Rock Road north of Deer Creek Road, Escondido, California.
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NextG DAS - Encinitas, California601 views
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3. Base Telecommunications Station Equipment600 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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Sleep Wirelessly in San Pablo, California600 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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600 views
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Cell Site Generator Plug and Breaker/Switch-over Panel599 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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Oh thank heavens for RF from 7-11599 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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Yahoo! What a site!599 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!599 viewsYet another view of a pole-mounted cell site in Scottsdale, Arizona. Notice the LMU antenna mounted at the top.
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Sprint Camo Elevator Penthouse Site598 viewsA good detail shot of Sprint's antennas located in a faux elevator penthouse.
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