 Most viewed - Wireless Sites
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CoLo Site - Escondido, California555 viewsMesa Rock Road north of Deer Creek Road, Escondido, California.
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles554 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 Conducts a Drive Test553 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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Righty Tighty Lefty Loosy553 viewsIt's either a water tank or a big door knob. Oh yes, it has antennas on it.
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Nextel's Interesting Lattice Tower552 viewsA Nextel site using an interesting lattice tower to support its antennas and microwave antennas.
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design552 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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A Real Education551 viewsThis Cingular site is located on the grounds of Fountain Valley (California) High School.
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NextG DAS - Norwalk, California551 viewsNextG Networks DAS light standard site in Norwalk, California.
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Tower Towers Over the Santa Fe Plaza550 viewsTowering over the historic Santa Fe Plaza (and just about everything else in the area), this awful pole is about as out of place as a tower can be. So sad. Thanks to Alltel for contributing to the spoiling of the historic Santa Fe Plaza area.
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Time Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area550 viewsTime Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area. Manufactured by BelAir Networks.
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Birds on Blue Unique Cell Site Design - Public Art550 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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Co-location external generator sockets549 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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Camo Water Tank549 viewsCamo Water Tank in San Dimas, CA
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SFO Airport - Terminal 2/Admin Building548 viewsYup. There's the panel antenna.
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Two on a Stick548 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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Power on the Tower548 viewsAn AT&T site on a SCE transmission tower in Thousand Oaks, California.
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548 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Co-location cell site546 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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Microcell - Two sectors546 viewsA two sector microcell on an Edison pole. Note the old (now abandoned) Metricom packet relay transceiver just below the cobra light head. Metricom is no more, but the equipment lives on.
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Wireless, with Cables546 viewsClose up of the multicarrier site at the upper station of the Mt. Roberts Tramway in Juneau, Alaska.
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Lolipop Antenna Mount546 viewsA Lolipop antenna mount is a panel on top of a short pole. Here is on installed by Cricket Wireless in the San Diego, California market. Notice how the coaxial cables are protected within a metal tube.
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Mono-Vent Stack546 viewsA mono-vent hiding T-Mobile's antennas on a 1920s building.
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546 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design546 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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NextG DAS - Norwalk, California544 viewsNextG flush-to-grade vault in Norwalk, California.
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles544 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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Mono-Vent Stack543 viewsA mono-vent hiding T-Mobile's antennas on a 1920s building.
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Tarzana, California543 viewsClark Avenue light standard
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Sutter County Lattice Tower542 viewsHere's a closer view of the SR99/Howsley Road lattice towre in Sutter County, California.
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A Tank of Signal542 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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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles542 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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PCS-Transmitter-in-a-Box541 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 (here, an omnidirectional antenna) to a predetermined height. Inside the truck is a portable PCS transmitter powering the antenna.
This is a photo of the PCS transmitter used by Sprint in this drive test. What? You thought it would be larger?!
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541 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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540 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Sprint's Drive Test Rover539 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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Park'n the Signal on the Roof539 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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Central Sedona Arizona539 viewsLocated at Fire Station 4 in Sedona, Arizona, this multicarrier site has an attractive backdrop.
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Tarzana, California539 viewsClark Avenue light standard
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Verizon 'Small Cell' (Really a DAS node)539 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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Cell site on power transmission tower538 viewsHere's a fairly standard non-camo wireless site on a power transmission tower.
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Arlington, VA Multicarrier Site538 views...at Washington Blvd. and 25th.
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A Terrible Missile Rises Over the New Mexico Horizon538 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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Time Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area538 viewsTime Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area. Manufactured by BelAir Networks.
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We'll leave the Verizon Cell Site on for you.537 viewsVerizon's mono-sign site at a Motel 6 in Vista, California.
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Two on a Stick536 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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Sprint's Residential Cell Site536 viewsSprint constructed this stand-alone cell site at a private residence in San Diego County adjacent to San Marcos.
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Parking lot cell site535 viewsHere's another, wider view of a cell site mounted on a parking lot light standard in San Francisco.
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Sending out the word...to Los Angeles International Airport535 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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Galt High School Doesn't Lack for Signal535 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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Amish Area Cell Tower535 views...in Bird in Hand, Pennsylvania, in the heart of the Amish country.
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Tarzana, California535 viewsClark Avenue light standard
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design535 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Tarzana, California534 viewsClark Avenue light standard
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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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Poorly designed Church bell tower site534 views
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design534 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles534 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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Sock-it-to-me533 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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533 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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A Modest Cell Site?532 viewsThis water tank sports multiple panel antennas. Modesto, California.
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Poorly designed Church bell tower site532 views
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NextG Distributed Antenna System Node531 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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Yet another awful Mobilitie design531 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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NextG Distributed Antenna System Node530 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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Irvine, Califoria multicarrier site529 viewsThis is an outstanding multicarrier camo site in Irvine, CA
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Monopole Power Tower Cell Site528 viewsThis is a cell site on a power mono-tower in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Notice the microwave antenna for backhaul located on the lower portion of the tower.
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Cellular Billboard Sign528 viewsSpotted in Philadelphia.
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The Leaning Tower of Victorville528 viewsVerizon's 3-sector wood pole is ever-so-slowly leaning over. Victorville, California.
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Blessed Be This Cell Site528 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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AT&T Site Undergoing a 4G Upgrade526 viewsThis site, at 703 Montana in Santa Monica, California is undergoing an upgrade to 4G.
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Irvine, Califoria multicarrier site526 viewsThis is an outstanding multicarrier camo site in Irvine, CA
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design525 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Microcell - Two Sectors524 viewsNotice the GPS antenna (the mushroom shaped device) on the crossarm.
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Guyed Tower - Antennas Vertically Stacked524 viewsThis cell site is on a guyed lattice tower on top of a commercial building in Modesto, California. Notice that the antennas are vertically stacked "tip-to-tip" at the top of the tower.
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Federally Protected Bird's Next in Taos, NM524 viewsThis is a close-up of the federally-protected bird's next located high up an American Tower colo site in Taos, New Mexico.
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design524 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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PGE Transmission Tower Cell Site523 viewsSpotted in Walnut Creek, California: A cell site mounted atop a PGE transmission tower.
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Take me to the Opera!523 viewsA parking lot light site at the Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe, NM.
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Birds on Blue Unique Cell Site Design - Public Art523 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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Grand Canyon - South Rim522 viewsThis multicarrier site is located near the Bright Angle Lodge at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
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Das Mock-up in Palos Verdes Estates, California522 viewsAn incomplete mock up showing the proposed DAS equipment and antennas but none of what will be visible cables interconnecting them.
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design522 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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San Mateo Bridge521 viewsTo provide for high power, focused coverage along a significant portion of the San Mateo Bridge spanning the Bay, carriers use high gain antennas. Here's a co-lo cell site on the east side of the bay.
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Tip-to-Tip 2 of 2521 viewsHere are four antennas mounted in a "tip-to-tip" configuration. Notice the faux antenna cover used to blend each of the two vertical antennas on the right side of the pole. Also clearly seen are the antenna downtilt mounts, and pole-mounted pre-amplifiers.
This site is located in San Francisco and shines signal on US101. The equipment cabinets for this site are seen in an adjacent photo in this gallery.
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Cell site in Salzburg, Austria520 viewsWhile in Salzburg to lecture at the Center for International Legal Studies I snapped this photo of a cell site across the street from my hotel room.
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Salzburg, Austria cell site - Apartment Building519 viewsThis is a cell site on the roof of an apartment building in Salzburg, Austria. I snapped this photo from my hotel room after having just lectured on cell siting at the Center for International Legal Studies.
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Cell Sign519 viewsSpotted in Redwood City, California, this two sector cell site provides spot coverage along the US101.
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design519 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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517 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Time Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area516 viewsTime Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area. Manufactured by BelAir Networks.
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design516 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Single Carrier Monopole515 viewsNot much to say about this site. It's a monopole that happens to be located at the top of a hill next to a water tank.
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Santa Fe Country Club515 viewsMono-Golfball Screen
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles515 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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Waves of Power514 viewsA fairly standard power transmission tower with a cell crown. Spotted in Walnut Creek, California, this photograph graces the cover of Paul Valle-Riestra's book, "Telecommunications: The Governmental Role in Managing the Connected Community" published in 2002.
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Two on a Stick514 viewsHere's a long view of this two-carrier site. If you look in the sidewalk area to the right of the pole you'll see Cingular's flush-to-grade equipment vault, and just to the left of it, Cingular's two flush-to-grade vents.
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Multi-carrier Omnis and Panels513 viewsThis traditional 'high iron' site supports several carriers using omni-directional antennas, as well as at least one carrier with sectorized panel antennas.
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A Pair of Monopoles in Gorman, California513 viewsAt the northern end of Los Angeles County along I-5.
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Tarzana, California513 viewsClark Avenue light standard
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design513 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Sprint - Microcell using Sanders CATV radio512 viewsSprint (especially in conjunction with Cox) deployed a significant number of the Sanders cable TV/cell interface. This site uses very low gain antennas (the two outside antennas are for reception from the users, and the center antenna is for transmission to the users). Sprint has built its own CATV-like wireless system to connect many of its sites back to its MTSOs.
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Multi-carrier Omnis and Panels512 viewsOn the west side of Interstate 5 in San Diego County, California.
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Verizon MTSO San Diego 1 of 2512 viewsThis photo shows Verizon's Mobile Telephone Switching Office and tower in San Diego, California.
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Field of Signals512 viewsCingular's light standard site in the Thousand Oaks Park in Thousand Oaks, California.
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512 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Co-location cell sites on paired power transmission towers511 viewsThis is an example of co-location sites on adjacent power transmission towers.
Notice that the antenna panels and cables were not required to be painted to match the towers. Painting those elements would have positively impacted the result.
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I'll Turn Left on a Green Sector...511 viewsFountain Hills area of greater Phoenix. A three sector site atop a traffic and light standard.
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Ketchikan Me if you Kan511 viewsMulticarrier site in Ketchikan, Alaska
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Tarzana, California511 viewsClark Avenue light standard
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511 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California510 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design510 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Take me to the Opera!508 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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Time Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area508 viewsTime Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area. Manufactured by BelAir Networks.
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Multi-carrier Cell Site Cleverly Disguised As An Upscale Hotel507 viewsOkay, it's really a hotel with an amazing number and variety of cell sites. Look at the related series of photos to get a flavor of this amazing site in Torrance, California.
Looking northeast. Cells on the roof (camo to the right; not camo in the middle) and on the southwest wall. Three panel non-camo sector on the west roof.
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Color can make all the difference - Close up506 viewsThe antenna panels, while not camo, are nicely blended into the underlying structure.
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Birds on Blue Unique Cell Site Design - Public Art506 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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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles506 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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505 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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