 Most viewed - Wireless Sites
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Wood You Please Support These Antennas?582 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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Antenna arrays mounted on transmission towers581 viewsClose-up view of an antenna array mounted on a power transmission tower.
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Faux church steeple - Louvers detail580 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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Sprint Camo Elevator Penthouse Site579 viewsA good detail shot of Sprint's antennas located in a faux elevator penthouse.
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Two on a Stick579 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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Tarzana, California579 viewsClark Avenue
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AT&T's Upgraded Tree at Camp Pendleton Rest Stop578 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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Birds on Blue Unique Cell Site Design - Public Art577 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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Generator Socket576 viewsThis is a standby power generator socket to provide power to the cell site during local commercial power failures
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Sleep Wirelessly in San Pablo, California576 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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Nextel Cow: Rose Bowl 2006575 viewsNextel's Cow at the 2006 Rose Bowl.
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Park'n the Signal on the Roof573 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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DAS Outboard on Power Meter573 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 pole571 viewsThis site in located in British Columbia, Canada.
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Monopoles at Apache Junction, AZ City Hall Campus571 viewsMonopoles at Apache Junction, AZ City Hall Campus
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design571 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Ground level wireless site on hilltop - CLOSE UP570 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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Camo Site in Shopping Center568 viewsThe camo site is located in the clocktower of this shopping center.
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Looking at Eagles568 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 8568 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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Major Macrocell Site (multiple carriers)567 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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BTS Equipment Behind Monument Sign567 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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Monopole567 viewsA monopole site between Victorville, California and Littlerock, California. Carrier unknown.
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What's Red and Whilte and Radiates All Over567 views...it's this T-Mobile lattice tower in Gridley, California.
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Multi-carrier cell site and TVRO downlink566 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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Cell Site Generator Plug and Breaker/Switch-over Panel566 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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Major Co-lo Site - San Clemente, California566 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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The Herd at the 2007 Rose Bowl566 viewsNextel, Sprint, and AT&T "cover" the 2007 Rose Bowl Game.
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Nextel's Cow and Sprint's Cow: Rose Bowl 2007565 viewsThese Cows belong to Nextel and Sprint. This herd spotted at the 2007 Rose Bowl.
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A parking lot light site at the Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe, NM.565 viewsMulti-carrier sites (on parking lot lights) at the Santa Fe Opera in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Spectrasite co-location site564 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 antennas564 viewsCingular's equipment cabinets are mounted in the hardscape area between the curb and sidewalk.
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Cricket in Santa Fe563 viewsThe Fashion Outlets of Santa Fe hosts this Cricket site.
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Faux 'faux chimney' - A Different Angle560 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 Sectors559 viewsHigh gain (directional) antennas facing up/down the highway.
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Outback with the Signal559 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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Time Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area558 viewsTime Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area. Manufactured by BelAir Networks.
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558 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Palms guarding cell site - circa 2001556 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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Blessed Be This Cell Site556 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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Das da ticket!556 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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Rocket South of Santa Fe on I-25556 viewsOne of the worst located sites I have ever run across.
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Sprint Camo Elevator Penthouse Site554 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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Got Desert?554 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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Lots of signal!553 viewsThis is a co-location site located south of Worcester, MA.
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Power transmission pole - Underground equipment shelter553 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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8 foot antenna on building553 viewsA rather ugly 8' antenna stuck on the side of a building in Tarzana, California
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Co-location cell site551 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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CoLo Site - Escondido, California551 viewsMesa Rock Road north of Deer Creek Road, Escondido, California.
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A Sign of the T-Mobile Times550 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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NextG DAS - Encinitas, California550 views
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Elevated Water Tank Cell Site548 viewsArtwork adorns this 4-level multi-carrier water tank site near Philadelphia.
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548 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design548 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design547 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Yahoo! What a site!546 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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Oh thank heavens for RF from 7-11544 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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Close-up of GPS Antenna and LMU Antenna542 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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Columns of Signal542 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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NextG Distributed Antenna System Node541 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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Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosey540 viewsWater tank site or giant doorknob in Maryland.
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design540 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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A Tower That Helps Birds!539 viewsThis is American Tower's "Taos Center" tower site in, ah, Taos (New Mexico). It's most unique feature is the federally protected bird's nest on the tower. Here's the sign warning against climbing without permission.
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Microcell Bolted on Parking Lot Light538 viewsSpotted in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, this microcell site is bolted to the top of an existing parking lot light standard. Notice the equipment mounted in the grass area (hey, guy, open that car door slowly or you might hit something).
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538 viewsClose up of the Fountain Hills three sector site atop a traffic and light standard.
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NextG Distributed Antenna System Node538 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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Rover's Roof537 viewsOn the roof of the drive test 'rover' is a GPS antenna (the square antenna in the center of the roof), plus two PCS omnidirectional antennas for signal measurement and communications purposes.
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Building side mount omni site536 viewsNotice that the omnidirectional antennas are mounted on the side of the building near the corner. Even more interesting is that the GPS antenna (used for network timing) is mounted in such a way as to be shielded from about 120 degrees of sky (this site faces northwest).
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Close-up of Cell Antennas and GPS Antenna on Traffic Signal/Light Standard536 viewsThis is a close-up of the antennas mounted on the traffic signal. Note the two coax cables into the bottom of each panel antenna. One is for transmitting and the other is for receiving.
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Looking at Eagles536 viewsAn off-site view of Larson-USA's two cactus design at the Eagle Mountain Inn in Arizona.
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Los Angeles Cathedrial536 viewsA surface mount antenna site at the Los Angeles Cathedral.
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536 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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536 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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So-so Camo'ed Pop-Up Site in Los Angeles (San Fernando Valley)534 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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534 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Church bell tower533 viewsThis is a non-camo site atop (well, just below) the bells of a church. Notice the shadowing of the antenna cables on the right side front of the tower.
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Co-location cell site - sectorized and omnidirectional533 viewsA single monopole tower can support one or more sectorized carriers. The lower carrier does not use diversity reception (two receive antennas spaced so as to better receive lower power mobile handsets). The upper carrier does use diversity. Usually, in diversity configurations, the two receive antennas are on the outsides of the sector, and the transmit antenna is located inside, adjacent to one of the receive antennas.
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RF on the Roof533 viewsThis commercial building in Tarzana, California shows how to poorly plan a roof by sticking almost anything (antenna wise) on the roof. A very poor (or good, depending on your view) example of how not to plan a rooftop.
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533 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Take me to the Opera!532 viewsThe BTS cabinets for the multi-carrier sites (on parking lot lights) at the Santa Fe Opera in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design532 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Great Scott!531 viewsYet another view of a pole-mounted cell site in Scottsdale, Arizona. Notice the LMU antenna mounted at the top.
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Penthouse external mounted site530 viewsThis is a plain, externally mounted cell site on a commercial office building. Note the GPS (timing) antenna well above the roof line, which might have been mounted at the roof level to minimize its visibility from ground level without impairing its function.
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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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CellSign Updated530 viewsThis AT&T wireless site has been modified since the last time we photographed it. Search for "Pico" to find the original site configuration. Originally, this was a single band site; now this is a dual band site. The boxes adjacent to the amplifiers are called "tower mounted amplifiers" (TMAs).
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Sprint Conducts a Drive Test529 viewsWhen a wireless carrier selects a candidate cell site it will usually conduct a 'drive test' to determine actual coverage. The drive test consists of elevating an antenna to a predetermined height. Inside the truck is a portable PCS transmitter powering the antenna. In a separate vehicle (call it a 'rover') the carrier will drive the streets around the test site out to a predetermined distance from the site. The received signal level and GPS location information are stored in a portable computer inside the rover.
After the test is concluded, the received signal strength and location information are plotted on a street map. That map then serves to guide the RF engineer to select a final candidate site, and to design the antenna system to cover the desired area without causing unreasonable interference to other cell sites on the same network.
Attached to the left of the antenna (and blowing in the breeze) is a measuring tape used to determine the height of the antenna.
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I'll take fries with that signal529 viewsMcDonalds sort-of-camo site in San Diego County
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Santa Fe Opera528 viewsSingle carrier on a driveway light at the Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Note the BTS enclosure.
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design527 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Cell site and Microwave Relay526 viewsThis site is not a mobile telephone switching office (MTSO). Rather, its an aggregation point for microwave backhaul from other wireless sites. Verizon and Nextel are co-located here.
Why red and white? This site is located adjacent to the Ontario, California airport.
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The Golden Signal526 viewsHere's a close-up of one of T-Mobile's sector antennas and tower-mounted amplifiers at its Chico, California water tank site.
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NextG Distributed Antenna System Node526 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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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles526 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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Lots of BTS Equipment in the Sidewalk Area525 viewsHere's a close-up photo of the AT&T Wireless BTS in the public right-of-way (sidewalk). Notice how tall the equipment stack is (about 6').
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525 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Tumwater Reservoir, Tumwater, Washington524 viewsNear the Tumwater Airport.
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Old Power Tower = New Cell Tower523 viewsThe power utility removed its wires from this old transmission tower, but still uses it to support a cell site.
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Sprint microcell - Single Sector523 viewsA Sprint single sector microcell site on Mullholland Road in Los Angeles.
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Sprint Conducts a Drive Test522 viewsThe tech mounts the omnidirectional antenna to the telescoping mast. Once the antenna is mounted, he'll connect the coax that runs back to the portable PCS transmitter sitting inside the van. Then the tech will elevate the antenna to the desired height, and set the proper output power of the transmitter. With all this done, another tech will drive the streets in the area recording signal strength, latitude, and longitude for later mapping.
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Park'n the Signal on the Roof522 viewsThe cable wiring for this site leaves something to be desired. Notice how the cables are attached to wood blocks.
PMBS>Cingular>T-Mobile at The Grand Long Beach Event Center, 4101 East Willow St.
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God Bless This Cell Site522 viewsLocated east of I-17 in Black Rock City, Arizona, this multicarrier site has an odd shaped antenna mounted directly to the tower. A message, perhaps?
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Nextel's Interesting Lattice Tower521 viewsA Nextel site using an interesting lattice tower to support its antennas and microwave antennas.
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Two on a Stick521 viewsHere's a close-up of the dual antennas on this wood pole in Santa Monica, California. Sprint is on the bottom; Cingular is that mass at the top. By the way, the palm is not a camouflage element of Cingular's antennas.
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Steel in the Air520 viewsThis AT&T wireless site is located on Highway 64, about 12 miles south of Valle, Arizona. It's mounted on a steel power transmission pole. Note the flat panel back-haul antenna located below the panels.
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NextG DAS - Norwalk, California518 viewsNextG Networks DAS light standard site in Norwalk, California.
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Parking lot cell site517 viewsHere's another, wider view of a cell site mounted on a parking lot light standard in San Francisco.
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So-so Camo'ed Pop-Up Site in Los Angeles (San Fernando Valley)517 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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517 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Semi-Camo Chimney Site516 viewsCulver City, California faux chimney pop-up
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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California516 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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Co-location external generator sockets515 viewsWhen the commercial power fails, many carriers rely on portable power generators to keep cell sites operating. Here are two generator sockets at a co-lo site (Verizon and AT&TWS [now Cingular]).
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Park'n the Signal on the Roof515 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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515 viewsA Verizon MTSO in Stockton, California.
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515 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Verizon MTSO Orange County513 viewsThis VZW MTSO (mobile telephone switching office) is in Santa Ana, California. The height of the tower is 60.7 meters AGL.
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Two on a Stick513 viewsCingular and Sprint share this wood light pole in Santa Monica, California. Cingular's antennas, pictured here, are on the top. Sprint's antennas are on an arm below the bottom of the photograph. Both carriers use completely underground BTS equipment enclosures and flush-to-grade vent systems.
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Big Iron CoLo in Lacey Washington513 viewsNextel and AT&T Wireless share this tower in Lacey, Washington
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design513 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Co-location cell site511 viewsYACS: Yet another co-location site. Note the various microwave antennas on the monopole. Microwave antennas are used for backhaul to the MTSO, and save monthly recurring line lease costs (at the cost of increased visual load at the site).
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External co-location monopole511 viewsOne way a co-location wireless site is created is by externally-mounting the cables and antennas to an existing monopole. This example shows what can happen when the added cables are not covered or otherwise specified to minimize visual impact.
The carriers at this site are Verizon Wireless and AT&T Wireless (now Cingular Wireless).
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2015 Rose Bowl Herd511 viewsThe 2015 COW/COLT herd at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA.
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Galt High School Doesn't Lack for Signal510 viewsThree out of four light standards at the Galt (California) High School Warrior Stadium are cell sites. Well, that still leaves 25% growth potential!
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NextG Distributed Antenna System Node510 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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Mono-Vent Stack510 viewsA mono-vent hiding T-Mobile's antennas on a 1920s building.
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design510 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design510 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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A Tank of Signal509 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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Sending out the word...to Los Angeles International Airport508 viewsThis is an AT&T Wireless site just north of LAX. It's a rather poor design Notice (1) the panels just above the roof line; the microwave panel antenna offset from the bell tower; and the cable runs down to the equipment building. A good design element (perhaps the only one) is the use of the brick face on AT&T's pre-fab building.
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Sprint's Drive Test Rover508 viewsThis is a Sprint vehicle used to receive the test signal emitted from the temporary transmitter van. This van drives a predetermined area collecting signal strength data for later mapping.
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A Real Education508 viewsThis Cingular site is located on the grounds of Fountain Valley (California) High School.
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