Dr. Jonathan Kramer's Cell Tower Photo Gallery

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Sending out the word...to Interstate 10390 viewsYet another church along a freeway that (likely) enjoys income in the thousands-of-dollars-per-month range. This is a Nextel site near San Bernardino, California.

The interesting and unusual element of this site is the placement of the antennas following the rise of the roofline. In a typical configuration, the two outside antennas are used for reception, and the center antenna is used to transmit, and they're all on the same horizontal plane.
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Power Transmission Tower Site390 viewsNextel's BTS equipment shelter is constructed between the legs of this SCE power transmission tower. Highway 18 between Victorville and Littlerock, California.
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5. A Close-Up View of Two Sectors of RF-Transparent Panels390 viewsHere's a close-up of the bell tower being modified to enclose the antennas. The cut-outs on the front and left side of the tower are the RF transparent panels.
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Blessed Be This Cell Site390 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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Tall Tower to Save Birds390 viewsAmerican Tower's Taos Central site in Taos, NM has a federally-protected bird's nest on one of the platforms. The the photos here. Search on Taos.
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Sprint Omni Site390 viewsSprint's underground equipment vault
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Park'n the Signal on the Roof388 viewsPBMS built this site. Cingular took it over. It's likely now a T-Mobile site. Long Beach, California, on top of the parking lot for The Grand Long Beach Event Center, 4101 East Willow St.
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A Terrible Missile Rises Over the New Mexico Horizon388 viewsThis is a monster of a visible site. It stands 150 feet tall and is located on the I25 Frontage Road east of County Road 57 south of Santa Fe, NM. There is another photo in this gallery showing just how awful this site is from close-up.
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Santa Fe Country Club388 views
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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California388 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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388 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Ground level wireless site on hilltop - Overview387 viewsThis is a pull-back photo of a cell site atop a hill above a major Interstate Highway. The antennas are mounted at ground level.
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387 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Really, really flat vines on this pole!386 viewsA Spectrasite site in Montebello, CA.
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Church Bell Tower Mount386 viewsThe sector panels are mounted to the face of the bell tower. The overall quality of the site is, at best, fair. Exposed and disconnected cables detract from the site, as do the visible preamplifiers inside the bell tower. Carrier (as yet) unknown.
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19. Now You See the Cables...Now You Don't386 viewsAnd the cables in the BTS area are also safely tucked away under the cover of the tray.
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22. Another View of the New Generator Wood Frame386 viewsYup, it's clearly rotated 90 degrees from before. Oh well.
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Tarzana, California386 viewsClark Avenue light standard
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Irvine, Califoria multicarrier site386 viewsThis is an outstanding multicarrier camo site in Irvine, CA
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Birds on Blue Unique Cell Site Design - Public Art386 viewsThis public art cell site was designed by Ron Pekar and Sandy McDaniel; brought to life by Esteban DuPont's CellTech Wireless, sponsored by Crown Castle, and authorized by the City of San Diego. This is a wonderful result for a great collaboration. Located at CA905 and Beyer Blvd in San Diego.
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A Singular Pole for a Cingular Site385 viewsAmerican Tower leases this monopole to Cingular. It's located in Biggs, California (American Tower Site No. 82517).
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7. A Close-Up View of Two Sectors of RF-Transparent Panels385 viewsThis is a close-up of the rear of the bell tower modified to enclose the antennas.
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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California385 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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Uninspired Cricket Wireless Site in Mesa, AZ384 viewsClose-up of the Cricket Wireless site on top of the Holiday Inn on Country Club in Mesa, Arizona. From a different view along the street the panel antennas are plainly visible. Not recommended.
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Cell Service, USN Style384 viewsThis is a photo of a cell site at the USN Amphibious Base in San Diego.
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A Terrible Missile Rises Over the New Mexico Horizon384 viewsThis is a monster of a visible site. It stands 150 feet tall and is located on the I25 Frontage Road east of County Road 57 south of Santa Fe, NM. There is another photo in this gallery showing just how awful this site is from afar.
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High Power - Higher Education383 viewsSprint has this site at the Irvine Valley College in Irvine, California.
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23. An outside view fo the BTS Equipment Area383 views...with the sliding fense not installed on the track, yet.
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T-Mobile Camo in Palos Verdes Estates, California383 viewsClose up of the of the business end of the building.
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles383 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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382 viewsThis co-lo water tank site in Olivehurst, California is shared by T-Mobile, Nextel, and Cingular. The terminated ASR for this site is 1031366 (terminated because it qualifies for delisting under the FCC's 6 meter rule).
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Ketchikan Me if you Kan382 viewsMulticarrier site in Ketchikan, Alaska
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AVEA (A & A) cell site381 viewsMasterful way of ventilating the equipment building
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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California381 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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381 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles381 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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Two Sectors - One into a hillside!380 viewsThis sprint site isn't for roadway coverage. One sector (the one facing right in this photo) faces a group of homes. The sector facing left in the photo points DIRECTLY INTO A HILLSIDE! Very strange! See the accompanying photo for more details about the aiming of the left-hand sector.
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Irvine, Califoria multicarrier site380 viewsThis is an outstanding multicarrier camo site in Irvine, CA
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Verizon Camo Church Site 379 viewsAt St. Margaret's in Chino, CA
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles379 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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Color can make all the difference378 viewsThis non-camo site is tastefully painted to blend in with the underlying structure. Better than most, not a good as some.
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Field of Signals378 viewsCingular's light standard site in the Thousand Oaks Park in Thousand Oaks, California.
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So-so Camo'ed Pop-Up Site in Los Angeles (San Fernando Valley)378 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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Grand Canyon Valle Airport377 viewsAT&T's site at the Grand Canyon Valle Airport in Valle, Arizona is interesting for several reasons. First, the tower also supports and aircraft landing beacon; second, it supports the wind sock. Yes, that's a tower climber working on the site.
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Verizon Camo Church Site 377 viewsAt St. Margaret's in Chino, CA
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377 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Co-location cell site376 viewsYACS: Yet another co-location cell site.
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Church Bell Tower With External Antennas376 viewsThis church bell tower sports multiple panel antennas on the face of the structure, rather then flush or camouflaged inside the tower. Too bad. Certainly not a high quality installation. Spotted in South-Central Los Angeles.
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Store that Signal!376 viewsPublic Storage locations are popular cell site locations. The carrier will often locate its equipment in a top floor or building end unit and place its antennas on the roof or an adjacent mono-whatever.

This PS location, in Rowland Heights, California sports externally mounted antennas.
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Sprint on a Stick in San Diego County376 views
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Time Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area376 viewsTime Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area. Manufactured by BelAir Networks.
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles376 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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A cell site on a power transmission monopole375 viewsIn Thousand Oaks, California. Note that the BTS equipment is underground.
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Power transmission pole - L.A. Dept. of Water & Power375 viewsThis power transmission pole, located in Tarzana, California, supports a cell site.
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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California375 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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Spectrasite in Paramount, California374 viewsYet another Spectrasite installation, this time in Paramount, California (looking north).
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T-Mobile Camo Site 374 viewsT-Mobile Camo Site at New Hope Christian Church in Chino, CA
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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California374 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles374 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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Salzburg, Austria cell site373 viewsThis is a cell site on the roof of a bank in Salzburg, Austria. I snapped this photo from my hotel room across the street after having lectured on cell sites at the Center for International Legal Studies.
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Building Topper373 viewsIn Inglewood, California, this multi-sector site could have been placed BEHIND camouflage panels instead of in front! Two sectors are visible...way too visible. Carrier(s) unknown.
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Oil's Well that Emits Well372 viewsOld oil wells can make good cell sites, even when a building has been built around the base!
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Multi Carriers on Multi Power Towers371 viewsThese antennas sites are located on SCE power transmission towers in Irvine, California.
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Cell Call Box (Version 2)371 viewsHere is the current version of this cellular call box, located on Pacific Coast Highway in southern Ventura County, California. A photograph of the original design is also here at this site. Search on "Cell Call Box" to find it.
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles371 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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Time to Shippee Out the Signal370 views...from this Spectrasite lattice tower on Shippee Road in Oroville, California. Nextel is the tower occupant. The tower ASR is 1239078.
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles370 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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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles370 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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The Golden Signal369 views...from this water tank site in Chico, California belongs to T-Mobile.
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Manny, Moe and Jack369 viewsThese three lattice towers stand just off of US285 in Nambe, New Mexico. This site is a few miles north of the Santa Fe Opera House.
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles369 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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Monopole368 viewsA monopole site between Victorville, California and Littlerock, California. Carrier unknown.
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Sutter County Lattice Tower368 viewsOff of CA SR99 at Howsley Road in Sutter County, you'll find this lattice tower.
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Santa Fe Country Club368 viewsMono-Golfball Screen
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A Tank of Signal368 viewsT-Mobile's water tank cell site, which doubles as a residential community sales sign. San Diego, California. Built in 2002, you can read about this site here: http://tinyurl.com/TMO-Tank
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Birds on Blue Unique Cell Site Design - Public Art368 viewsThis public art cell site was designed by Ron Pekar and Sandy McDaniel; brought to life by Esteban John 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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Multi carrier array367 viewsThis is a co-location site with an omni-direction carrier (the antennas up/down from the platform) and a sectorized (panel) antenna configuration. Spotted in Irvine, California.
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles366 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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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles366 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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This signal ISN'T watered down365 viewsNote the panel antennas well below the tank.
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Cellular Billboard Sign365 viewsSpotted in Philadelphia.
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NextG DAS - Encinitas, California365 views
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T-Mobile Camo in Palos Verdes Estates, California365 viewsPano of the front of the building.
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles365 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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Multi-sector wireless site with microwave interconnect364 views
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Pumping more then water...364 views...from this water plant in Hartford, CT. Note the antennas on the righthand smokestack.
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Power Transmission Tower Site364 viewsNextel's site not only provides local cell coverage along a highly traveled (and very dangerous) state highway, it also serves as a repeater site to relay MTSO connections to a site yet further away. If you didn't understand that, give me a call and I'll explain! :-) Between Victorville and Littlerock, California.
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No, the tower legs are NOT two colors...364 views...it's just the the legs on the right have so many black cables for the T-Mobile, Cingular, and Nextel antennas. Olivehurst, California.
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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California364 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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Self-supporting cell tower - Mass Turnpike363 viewsThis co-location site is in Newton, MA along the turnpike.
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Great Scott! (Even more)363 viewsYet another example of a pole-mounted cell site in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Two on a Stick363 viewsCingular and Sprint share this wood light pole in Santa Monica, California. Cingular is on the top, and Sprint is on the arm. Both carriers use completely underground BTS equipment enclosures and flush-to-grade vent systems.
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8 foot antenna on building363 viewsA rather ugly 8' antenna stuck on the side of a building in Tarzana, California
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles363 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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Smokestack BTS equipment362 viewsThis is the base station equipment cage next to the smokestack site in Westborough, MA.
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PCS Crown on PG&E Tower362 viewsUbiquitel's PCS antennas in Olivehurst, California are located above the high tension lines on this PG&E power transmission tower.
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A Tank of Signal362 viewsT-Mobile's water tank cell site, which doubles as a residential community sales sign. San Diego, California. Built in 2002, you can read about this site here: http://tinyurl.com/TMO-Tank
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Cable TV Headend Cell Site361 viewsOne of Comcast's cable television headend towers in the Philadelphia area supports cell panel antennas.
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Restful Signal361 viewsSprint's antennas are on the motel sign just out of the frame on the right side. It's BTS equipment is located in the bricked area to the left center of this photo. Notice the power panel, transfer switch, etc. on the left side of the enclosure. From the street side, this enclosure is very well designed to blend in with the buidling.
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Catch a Dream With This Site361 viewsLocated ajacent to the "Dreamcatcher Cinema" in Espanola, NM, this uni-pole-ish, mon-pole-ish site is owned by TowerCo.
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