Dr. Jonathan Kramer's Cell Tower Photo Gallery

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A Tower that's Really a Tower954 viewsAT&T and Sprint occupy the tower above this building in Temecula, California. The antennas are located adjacent to the 'windows', and the equipment cabinets are hidden by the roof parapets. The name of the center is, oddly, the Tower Plaza! A very good design, indeed.55555
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Just park that signal!554 viewsT-Mobile's recently upgraded parking lot site in Long Beach, California.55555
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AT&T Cow in Action1731 viewsAT&T's Cell-on-Wheels (COW) in action in the Santiago Canyon area of Orange County after the October 2007 wildfires. The portable generator powers the site.55555
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Very Large Mono-Cross1187 viewsThe East Valley Free Will Baptist Church in Mesa, Arizona features a very large mono-cross. This site was constructed by Cingular.55555
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T-Mobile Monocypress in Diamond Bar, California1294 viewsA very hard to find (good) monocypress site built by T-Mobile in Diamond Bar, California. I drove by it several times before spotting it!55555
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Waves in the Shakes?1151 viewsMickyD's hosts this Nextel site in Norwalk, California.55555
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Light Standard Under Construction566 viewsThe double arms of this light standard, and the radome containing the antennas above the arms are yet to be placed. The light standard is located in the greenbelt median of the roadway.55555
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Verizon CEV installation in Irvine, California601 views55555
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Elevated Water Tank Cell Site441 viewsArtwork adorns this 4-level multi-carrier water tank site near Philadelphia.55555
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City Monument Sign - Montclair, California772 viewsNextel's monument sign cell site is located along Interstate 10 (a really, really, really busy freeway). Originally built to house its own antennas, it now supports at least one other carrier's antennas, as well.55555
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City Hall Clock Tower552 viewsIrvine, California's civic center is a sight to behold. The clock tower above the site supports public safety radio antennas, and an omni-direction antenna cell site.55555
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Pad-mounted Base Station602 viewsThis is a concrete-mounted cell site equipment and power package. Note the use of the ice-bridge (left-rear of the equipment) to protect the cables. The commercial powering package is to the right of the radio equipment package. 55555
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Birds on Blue Unique Cell Site Design - Public Art461 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.55555
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design489 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire55555
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Irvine, Califoria multicarrier site546 viewsThis is an outstanding multicarrier camo site in Irvine, CA55555
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So-so Camo'ed Pop-Up Site in Los Angeles (San Fernando Valley)423 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.55555
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Das Mock-up in Palos Verdes Estates, California328 viewsAn incomplete mock up showing the proposed DAS equipment and antennas but none of what will be visible cables interconnecting them.55555
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AT&T Clock Tower - Public Park580 viewsAT&T Clock Tower Site in Rio Rancho, NM55555
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A Tank of Signal343 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-Tank55555
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A Tank of Signal415 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-Tank55555
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Sprint Monopole in Lebec, California746 viewsSite is controlled by TowerCo (soon to be SBC).55555
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Mono Eucalyptus Antennas1632 viewsThe antennas atop a mono-eucalyptus in Oceanside, California. American Tower should spend a bit of time fixing the antenna covers.55555
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Sprint's Signal is SMOK'N!952 viewsAnother view of Sprint's faux chimney site in Oceanside, California.55555
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GPS Antenna Directly Mounted to Cabinet951 viewsThis is a good example of how a GPS antenna can use directly mounted on top of an equipment cabinet. This type of mounting reduces the visibility of this element compared with mounting it on an extension pipe above the cabinet. This is a Verizon Wireless site at a church in Mesa, Arizona.55555
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I bow to Him931 viewsVerizon's mono-flagpole site in Mesa Arizona is leaning over ust a wee-bit.55555
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It's time for Wireless721 viewsThis tower in Anaheim, California features an RF transparent clock. 55555
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Not too compliant with the FCC OET Bulletin 65 Rules643 viewsThe FCC rules require that where visitors (and even trespassers) are expected, a wireless carrier must protect those members of the general population from RF exposure exceeding the uncontrolled standard. This site does not meet that requirement due to the antennas mounted on the exterior fence of this water tank site.55555
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Now you see it; now you shouldn't.1345 viewsAs an example of how to ALMOST construct a camouflaged site, look at this photograph. Nextel's camo box fails to extend the flashing around the top of its enclosure. As a result, from ground level you can see the coaxial cables running over the top parapet to the camo box. I've created a photo simulation to illustrate how little it would have taken to complete the camouflage for this site, and the benefits of that little effort. Planners, think about these things...they will make a great difference in the result of your work.55555
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Mono Cypress1540 viewsCricket Wireless has constructed this attractive mono cypress in San Marcos, California. The BTS equipment is located against the wall of the building.55555
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An Insect Attracted to a Light972 viewsSide view of the Cricket Wireless DAS site (installed by NextG) on a light standard in Encinitas, California.55555
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Das da ticket!546 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. Notice that the node is not directly affixed, but is held via stand-offs.55555
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Getting ready for pulling the coax cables up the tree953 viewsThe worker prepares the coax cables for insertion into the trunk of the monopalm by laying them out flat on the ground. From here, a pull rope will be used to raise the cables into the trunk, and up to the level of the antennas.55555
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Nextel's Cow and Sprint's Cow: Rose Bowl 2007571 viewsThese Cows belong to Nextel and Sprint. This herd spotted at the 2007 Rose Bowl.55555
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Village of Oak Creek near Sedona688 viewsThis camo site is located on Highway 179 in Oak Creek. This site is on the main road connecting I-17 with Sedona. The site is hidden in the facade box. Nice background, eh?55555
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Agoura High School689 viewsAll four light standards at the Agoura Hills High School sport antenna radomes55555
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Lambert Ranch - Irvine, California733 viewsThis view shows the separate fences for the varioud sites. Notice that the walkway between the Nextel site (left) and the Sprint site (middle, foreground) passes right under the various panels.55555
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Sutter County Lattice Tower408 viewsHere's a closer view of the SR99/Howsley Road lattice towre in Sutter County, California.55555
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Cellular Billboard Sign341 viewsSpotted in Philadelphia.55555
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Illuminating the Way 2 of 2632 viewsThis 'lighthouse' supports an AT&T Wireless and Sprint co-lo site in Dana Point, California, just adjacent to the Ritz Carlton Hotel. Notice the antennas on the railing at the top, and the equipment room at the base.55555
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Cell site and Microwave Relay446 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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Utility Wood Pole Top Mount560 viewsCingular's three sector antenna system is mounted at the top of the utility pole it installed (it has a PBM pole number). The equipment cabinets are located to the right of the pole.55555
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Flush Mount Cell Site on PG&E Transmission Pole - San Jose, CA Airport2341 viewsThe interesting point about the cell antennas mounted to PG&E's transmission pole (seen in the right side of the photo) is that the antennas are not out on arms. Usually power companies require carriers to mount antennas on arms to insure adequate climbing space under NESC/CPUC GO95.55555
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Poor Camo Design792 viewsA camo site should effectively hide the antennas from public view. This site, in West Los Angeles, fails to do so, and illustrates the point. Camo is NOT just putting up some antenna blinds and painting to match.55555
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External co-location monopole427 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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Generic monopole site653 viewsJust another example of a monopole antenna tower.55555
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Spectrasite co-location site471 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).55555
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Co locate site for multiple cell structures747 viewsThis multi-tower site is along next to Interstate 405 in Irvine, California. 1 comments55555
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DAS Outboard on Power Meter Cabinet849 viewsOverview of a Cingular (now AT&T) DAS site in Rolling Hills Estates, California.55555
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Sprint COW: Rose Bowl 2007684 viewsThis is Sprint's COW at the Rosebowl, January 2007.55555
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Multi-Carrier Panels576 viewsJust west of Interstate 5 in San Diego County, California. Notice that anyone can walk up to the ground-mounted panel antennas via the path in the foreground. This site is not fenced.1 comments55555
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CEV Hatch with Bench678 viewsThe metal bench sits atop the hatch of a CEV (controlled environmental vault) used to house telecommunications equipment in a large, underground room. How large is large, you ask? CEV's are common, but bench tops aren't.

CEVs come in many sizes, but its common for the size of the room below ground to be measured in hundreds of square feet.
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Wireless Sign764 viewsThis uncompleted sign framework holds multiple antennas. Rocky Peak site in Santa Susana Pass, California.55555
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Monopalm in the Sepulveda Pass1150 viewsWorking on the little tree (July 2001). This monopalm is located on Sepulveda Blvd. south of Mulholland off of the I-405 freeway in Los Angeles.44444
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Desert Storm!661 viewsVerizon's "Desert Storm" light standard site in Irvine, California.44444
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Verizon MTSO San Diego 2 of 2646 viewsThis photo shows Verizon's Mobile Telephone Switching Office and tower in San Diego, California. The microwave antennas connect various cell sites back to this MTSO. Telephone company leased data lines (usually T1 circuits) are another means of connecting remote cell sites back to a MTSO.44444
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Sprint microcell - Base Station, Backhaul, and Powering571 viewsThe base station is the large box. Below it is the interface box that extracts power from the coaxial cable backhaul system. At the bottom, in the small box, is the power regulation transformer. Note that this installation, in California, does not comply with CPUC General Order 95 as it has cables below 8 feet above ground that are not in conduit.44444
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Belting out the RF792 viewsThe 'belt' around the middle of this structure hides cell antennas. Notice two things: (1) at the far end of the left side you can see some of the antenna cables; and (2) the traditional cell site behind this project.1 comments44444
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Sprint's Eagle Mountain Inn Site Equipment Enclosure726 viewsNotice how Sprint has placed its equipment enclosure partially underground and colored it to match the surrounding area. Yet another reason why this is an outstanding site. (I do wish they had painted the GPS antenna, or placed it flush to the top of the roof fence.44444
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Cell Rock968 viewsHere is a cellular rock housing an antenna. The antenna serves the 118 Freeway in the Santa Susana Pass between the Simi Valley and the San Fernando Valley. 44444
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False 3rd story on office building1785 viewsAntenna room constructted on top of an existing office building. Windows are not real, but instead painted upon translucent plastic materia. Roof room accessible from access door on right end. 44444
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Freeway wireless site563 viewsThis double wireless array is situated on a building located immediately adjacent to the I-5 Freeway in Los Angeles. 44444
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Wireless Adobe1339 viewsLooking at the west and south sides of Cingular's wireless adobe site. It's on a bluff above California Highway 62 southeast of Yucca Valley, California. It appears to be 'just another house on a hill' until you get up close and personal. The site is owned by InterConnect Towers LLC (FCC ASR 1050520).44444
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Monopine - Lake Elsinore, California1642 viewsThis monopine has some of the hallmarks of a good design, including very good branch coverage and the use of camouflage antenna panel covers.3 comments44444
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Pulling Cables Inside a Monopalm709 viewsTechs are installing cables inside this legacy monopalm. Sepulveda Boulevard west of the I-405 in Los Angeles.44444
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Towering Signal684 viewsSprint's site in Irvine along the I-5 Freeway features an unusual antenna configuration where one of the sector antennas is turned 90 degrees to serve another sector. It's the antenna on the right side.44444
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What's Red and Whilte and Radiates All Over488 views...it's this T-Mobile lattice tower in Gridley, California.44444
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Cell site in parking lot1676 viewsNotice the addition of the lot lights. 44444
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2228 viewsCan you guess which of the light standards contains the site antennas?44444
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A Royal Treatment720 views(Long View) Royal Street (MetroPCS) constructed this very nice cupola site above an existing shopping center in San Juan Capistrano, California. If you'd like to see more about this project visit http://www.sanjuancapistrano.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=4026. 44444
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Monopalm of Paramount Importance841 viewsThis is a Nextel monopalm site in Paramount, California.44444
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Nextel's Cow and Sprint's Cow: Rose Bowl 2007563 viewsThese Cows belong to Nextel and Sprint. This herd spotted at the 2007 Rose Bowl.44444
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Monopole482 viewsA monopole site between Victorville, California and Littlerock, California. Carrier unknown.44444
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Arlington, VA Multicarrier Site369 views...at Washington Blvd. and 25th.44444
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Oil's Well that Emits Well348 viewsOld oil wells can make good cell sites, even when a building has been built around the base!44444
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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California360 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.44444
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We'll leave the Verizon Cell Site on for you.552 viewsVerizon's mono-sign site at a Motel 6 in Vista, California.44444
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MonoFlag near Mugu Rock, CA602 views44444
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Outstanding T-Mobile Church Site1097 viewsThis is a photograph of T-Mobile's outstanding installation in the exiting bell tower of the Piedmont Community Church in Piedmont, California. The antennas are hidden behind the faux vents. T-Mobile originally proposed a faux stained-glass design, but the City's planners wisely opted for the vent design far more in keeping with the normal look of a bell tower.44444
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Tower Towers Over the Santa Fe Plaza398 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.44444
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Mono-Cross in Tempe Arizona859 viewsThis is a fairly blah mono-cross in Tempe, Arizona. Taken late morning.44444
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Barn There; Done That1090 viewsVerizon's site along I-580 in Berkeley, California is hardly noticeable to 'civilians' driving by at a raging 3 miles per hour. 44444
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Time for a new Flag and some paint1178 viewsThe flag flying at this Cingular site, located at a Post Office in San Marcos, California is ready to be replaced. Disposal is subject to the U.S. Flag Code. Also, a wee-bit of paint is about due, here, too!44444
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An Insect Attracted to a Light979 viewsView of the Andrew node of the Cricket Wireless DAS site (installed by NextG) on a light standard in Encinitas, California.44444
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Das da ticket!527 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.44444
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Sprinting to the Finish547 viewsSprint Fat Cow at the Rose Bowl44444
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NextG Distributed Antenna System Node529 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.44444
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Sock-it-to-me386 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.44444
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Multi-carrier Cell Site Cleverly Disguised As An Upscale Hotel310 viewsLooking northeast. Close-up of cells on the southwest wall. Notice the loose cables.44444
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Great Scott!448 viewsYet another view of a pole-mounted cell site in Scottsdale, Arizona. Notice the LMU antenna mounted at the top. 44444
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Power transmission pole - Underground equipment shelter471 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.44444
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Peeking Inside a Wireless Rock1196 viewsThis is what an antenna looks like mounted inside a cellular rock. The two coaxial cables indicate that the antenna is actually two antennas inside one radome: one for transmit, and one for receive. Another panel antenna can easily be added on the mounting pole in the foreground.44444
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Microcell - Two Sectors482 viewsHigh gain (directional) antennas facing up/down the highway.44444
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A Sassy Looking Mono-Cypress1202 viewsVerizon's mono-cypress tree in Lake Elsinore is Sassy! (Sorry, bad joke: That's VZW's site name...go figure!) Here's a close-up of the tree coverage.2 comments44444
(5 votes)
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Multipurpose monopole589 viewsThis tall monopole belonging to a Southern California radio station is occupied at several levels by various communications services. 44444
(5 votes)
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1142 views44444
(8 votes)
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A well lit monolight brought to you by Verizon569 views...in the San Fernando Valley. A Verizon site. The base station equipment is located in one of the mall stores, which Verizon has taken over and added a new interior door.44444
(4 votes)
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Close-up of a cellular/PCS flagpole without the covers4623 viewsThis is a close-up shot of how antennas are stacked in a faux flagpole. All three flagpoles in this photo are really cell towers. The center flagpole is an AT&T Wireless (now Cingular) site in Los Angeles, California. Verizon shares this site with Verizon and Nextel. The flagpole is 85' tall and 25" in diameter. It's manufactured by Chameleon Engineering.2 comments44444
(4 votes)
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Camo faux water tank772 viewsCamo faux water tank at shopping center entrance. Photo courtesy of Peabody Engineering.44444
(4 votes)
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RF Safety testing at an FM broadcast station990 viewsThis is a photograph of RF engineer Joel Saxberg conducting signal strength measurements to determine the boundary to the general population/uncontrolled area around the antenna. Due to signal strength of the station, a fence will be placed around the antenna site to keep out the public out of the RF controlled zone.1 comments44444
(4 votes)
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Four sector monopole cell site599 viewsIt's relatively unusual to find 4-sector towers. Here's one (although only 3 sectors are in use).44444
(4 votes)
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What's that below the fans?1188 viewsTake one poorly configured camouflaged cell palm tree and then abandon any desire to keep it camouflaged. How? Just add non-camo antennas bolted onto the 'trunk' below the fans as seen in this photograph. To see what this cell palm looked like before the addition of the bolt-on antennas, see "...before the mast" in this section!44444
(12 votes)
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10 - Close up of Ice Guard Construction827 viewsThe title of this slide says it all.44444
(6 votes)
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1494 views44444
(3 votes)
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Verizon Wireless Camo Light Standard875 views...in Santa Monica, California. Notice that the BTS equipment vault is located around the corner to the right. It's in the sidewalk area. The vault vents are located in the greenbelt behind the red curb. A very nice installation, indeed.44444
(3 votes)
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Columns of Signal831 viewsThe columns at the top are built with RF transparent materials. The antennas are located inside the columns of this church. Look carefully and you'll see the seam of the RF transparent panels.2 comments44444
(3 votes)
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Generator Socket487 viewsThis is a standby power generator socket to provide power to the cell site during local commercial power failures44444
(3 votes)
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Co-location cell site - sectorized and omnidirectional446 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. 44444
(3 votes)
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Two levels? No problem!536 viewsThis cell site, located on Yerba Buena Island in the San Francisco Bay serves both levels of the Bay Bridge.44444
(3 votes)
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Sending out 'the word'1833 viewsA cell site within a church cross. The antennas are behind removable panels above the cross arm. The equipment cabinets are behind the brick wall to the right in the picture.1 comments44444
(23 votes)
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Camo site atop standalone church tower - #2816 viewsThis church, in Irvine, California, has a Cingular site above the stained glass in the stand-alone tower.44444
(4 votes)
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Ground level wireless site on hilltop - CLOSE UP496 viewsThis is a close-up of a cell site atop a hill above a major Interstate Highway. The antennas are mounted at ground level.44444
(4 votes)
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Cingular underground cell site equipment1252 viewsThe BTS equipment vault, in the foreground, serves a Cingular's light standard microcell. The green pedestal houses the power company meter, and is subject to removal if the power company allows unmetered or remotely metered service sometime in the future.44444
(4 votes)
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Palms guarding cell site - circa 2004581 viewsThis is a cell site 'guarded' by live palm trees. Its the same site I photographed in late 2001 (see that photo in this gallery). Notice how the live palms have grown, and so have the houses around the site!44444
(4 votes)
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Omni-directional Microcell on Sign569 viewsThis AT&T Wireless site, at Fairfax and Pico in Los Angeles, is an example of placing a microcell site atop an existing, small sign.

If you enlarge the photo, don't miss checking out the lid of the vault in front of the pole. The lid is a piece of plywood, apparently to replace the original concrete!

Nope, I don't want to drive my car over that lid, either!
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(4 votes)
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646 views44444
(2 votes)
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Outstanding T-Mobile Church Site1300 viewsThis is a photograph of T-Mobile's outstanding installation in the exiting bell tower of the Piedmont Community Church in Piedmont, California. The antennas are hidden behind the faux vents. T-Mobile originally proposed a faux stained-glass design, but the City's planners wisely opted for the vent design far more in keeping with the normal look of a bell tower.44444
(2 votes)
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1232 views44444
(2 votes)
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One bump too many1127 viewsThis Cingular site cable transition to a flagpole site at the USPO in San Marcos, California features impacts. It's too close to the driveway. 44444
(2 votes)
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