Dr. Jonathan L. Kramer's Cell Tower Photo Gallery

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Most viewed - Wireless Sites
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Time Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area413 viewsTime Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area. Manufactured by BelAir Networks.
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Microcell - Two Sectors411 viewsTwo sectors facing up/down the highway. That's the San Fernando Valley in the background (on a VERY clear day!).
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Drive Test Rover Ready To Run411 viewsInside the cab of the drive test 'rover' is a portable computer connected to the output of the PCS signal strength receiver and the GPS receiver. The computer records the data for later mapping. The clipboard holds the predetermined route that the driver of the rover will cover during the test.
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Birds on Blue Unique Cell Site Design - Public Art411 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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Parking lot cell site410 viewsThe cell antennas are mounted on the light standard on the roof of a public parking lot in San Francisco.
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T-Mobile Camo Site 410 viewsT-Mobile Camo Site at New Hope Christian Church in Chino, CA
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Wireless site on a major transmission tower, Irvine, CA409 viewsUtilizing the powerline ROW, this wireless site makes use of a transmission tower. If you enlarge the photograph, you'll see another wireless site on the pole behind this one.
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A New Sign of the Times409 viewsYes, this cell site is sandwiched between two outdoor advertising signs. Yes, two of the three sectors shine THROUGH the signs (with metal rails just in front of the panel antennas).
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Which Way is the Wind Blowing?408 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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Wait 'Till We Get Our Haines Signal On You!408 viewsMulticarrier site above Haines, Alaska
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So-so Camo'ed Pop-Up Site in Los Angeles (San Fernando Valley)408 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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Hitting the signal out of the park407 viewsSprint's three-sector site is split between one sector on an existing light standard, and two sectors on a pole it installed.
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Sort-of Camo on Face of Shopping Center Tower407 viewsA less-than-inspired design in a shopping center in Chino, CA. Not impressive, and barely camo.
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407 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Tower Towers Over the Santa Fe Plaza406 viewsThis tower stands just south of the Plaza in historic Santa Fe. It's clearly visible from much of the Plaza area. So sad
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Omnidirectional to Sectorized405 viewsThese poles formerly supported omnidirectional cell antennas. The carrier increased capacity by replacing the omni antennas with sectorized panel antennas.
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Powering Up Santa Fe405 viewsT-Mobile occupies the top of this power transmission pole near the Plaza in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Santa Fe Country Club405 viewsMono-Golfball Screen
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles405 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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Santa Fe Country Club404 views
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The Tower Company Tower403 viewsSounds circular, eh? Located in Chico, California.
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On the Fence403 viewsSome wireless carriers mount their antennas on the outside of water tank sites atop hilltops.
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A Terrible Missile Rises Over the New Mexico Horizon403 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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Tall Tower to Save Birds403 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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403 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles403 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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Blessed Be This Cell Site402 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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Sprint Omni Site402 viewsSprint's underground equipment vault
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Irvine, Califoria multicarrier site401 viewsThis is an outstanding multicarrier camo site in Irvine, CA
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Parking the Signal400 viewsParking spaces make good sites for BTS cabinets, GPS, and LMU equipment! And parking lot walls are great for mounting panel antennas, especially when the parking lot faces a major freeway. This site is near LAX airport in Los Angeles along the San Diego Freeway at Century Boulevard.
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Power Transmission Tower Site400 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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Ground level wireless site on hilltop - Overview399 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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AVEA (A & A) cell site399 viewsMasterful way of ventilating the equipment building
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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California399 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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Sending out the word...to Interstate 10398 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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Really, really flat vines on this pole!398 viewsA Spectrasite site in Montebello, CA.
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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California398 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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398 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Church Bell Tower Mount397 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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Park'n the Signal on the Roof397 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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Tarzana, California397 viewsClark Avenue light standard
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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California397 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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A Singular Pole for a Cingular Site396 viewsAmerican Tower leases this monopole to Cingular. It's located in Biggs, California (American Tower Site No. 82517).
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396 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 Kan396 viewsMulticarrier site in Ketchikan, Alaska
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T-Mobile Camo in Palos Verdes Estates, California396 viewsClose up of the of the business end of the building.
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396 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Irvine, Califoria multicarrier site395 viewsThis is an outstanding multicarrier camo site in Irvine, CA
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Uninspired Cricket Wireless Site in Mesa, AZ394 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 Style394 viewsThis is a photo of a cell site at the USN Amphibious Base in San Diego.
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Verizon Camo Church Site 394 viewsAt St. Margaret's in Chino, CA
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Church Bell Tower With External Antennas393 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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High Power - Higher Education393 viewsSprint has this site at the Irvine Valley College in Irvine, California.
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A Terrible Missile Rises Over the New Mexico Horizon393 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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393 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles393 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 Angeles393 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 Angeles393 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 difference392 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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Two Sectors - One into a hillside!392 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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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles392 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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Grand Canyon Valle Airport391 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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Sprint on a Stick in San Diego County391 views
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Time Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area390 viewsTime Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area. Manufactured by BelAir Networks.
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Irvine, Califoria multicarrier site390 viewsThis is an outstanding multicarrier camo site in Irvine, CA
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390 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)389 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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Power transmission pole - L.A. Dept. of Water & Power388 viewsThis power transmission pole, located in Tarzana, California, supports a cell site.
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Spectrasite in Paramount, California388 viewsYet another Spectrasite installation, this time in Paramount, California (looking north).
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Building Topper388 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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Birds on Blue Unique Cell Site Design - Public Art388 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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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles388 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 monopole387 viewsIn Thousand Oaks, California. Note that the BTS equipment is underground.
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Multi Carriers on Multi Power Towers387 viewsThese antennas sites are located on SCE power transmission towers in Irvine, California.
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Verizon Camo Church Site 387 viewsAt St. Margaret's in Chino, CA
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Co-location cell site386 viewsYACS: Yet another co-location cell site.
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Oil's Well that Emits Well386 viewsOld oil wells can make good cell sites, even when a building has been built around the base!
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Field of Signals386 viewsCingular's light standard site in the Thousand Oaks Park in Thousand Oaks, California.
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Store that Signal!386 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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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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The Golden Signal384 views...from this water tank site in Chico, California belongs to T-Mobile.
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Cell Call Box (Version 2)384 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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T-Mobile Camo Site 384 viewsT-Mobile Camo Site at New Hope Christian Church in Chino, CA
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles384 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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Manny, Moe and Jack383 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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NextG DAS - Encinitas, California383 views
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Santa Fe Country Club383 viewsMono-Golfball Screen
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Salzburg, Austria cell site382 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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Time to Shippee Out the Signal382 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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A Tank of Signal382 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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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California382 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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This signal ISN'T watered down381 viewsNote the panel antennas well below the tank.
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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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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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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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Pumping more then water...380 views...from this water plant in Hartford, CT. Note the antennas on the righthand smokestack.
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Monopole380 viewsA monopole site between Victorville, California and Littlerock, California. Carrier unknown.
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Multi carrier array379 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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Multi-sector wireless site with microwave interconnect379 views
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Great Scott! (Even more)378 viewsYet another example of a pole-mounted cell site in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Restful Signal378 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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Sutter County Lattice Tower378 viewsOff of CA SR99 at Howsley Road in Sutter County, you'll find this lattice tower.
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Two on a Stick378 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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NextG DAS - Encinitas, California378 views
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