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AVEA (A & A) colo with Turk cell site540 viewsColo site: Avea and Turk
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540 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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BTS Equipment Behind Monument Sign539 viewsAt California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California. The antennas are in the radome atop the parking lot lights (seen in this background right of this photo), and the BTS equipment is behind the monument entry sign.
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The Sweet Taste of Signal539 viewsCingular and an unidentified second carrier use this old sugar silo in Loveland, Colorado. Photo by Steve Allen of Kramer.Firm, Inc. Loveland Sugar Co.
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Cell on Taxi ("CAT"?) No... It just Turkcell539 views
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Chester, PA Cell Site538 viewsAttention KMART shoppers! Now you can show for sundries and signal at the same time!
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Faux church steeple - Nearly complete538 viewsThe faux church steeple to be used as a cell site is nearly complete. Final matching will occur on site. The RF-transparent louvers are to be installed after this photo, but before delivery to the job site. Photo courtesy of Peabody Engineering.
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The Transit Mixer has Arrived...538 views...so let the pouring begin!
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Yerba Buena Island Site Serving the Oakland Bay Bridge538 viewsFrom July, 2001: This multicarrier site is pumping RF along the upper and lower spans of the Oakland Bay Bridge. Located on Yerba Buena Island (on the south side of the spans), this is an interesting configuration, employing "tip-to-tip" construction.
June 2008: This site no long exists. It has been removed to make way for construction of the new Bay Bridge connection to Yerba Buena Island. -jlk
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The Sweet Taste of Signal537 viewsCingular and an unidentified second carrier use this old silo in Loveland, Colorado. Photo by Steve Allen of Kramer.Firm, Inc.
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About three hundred years apart537 viewsYes, this is big iron in Bird in Hand, Pennsylvania. Yes, it's in the middle of a field being tended by local Amish citizens. Yes, this photo captures technology spanning about 300 years. Amazing!
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles537 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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Cable Pulling Vault: Sprint's San Dimas Water Tank536 viewsThe cables from the BTS to the antennas pass through this pulling vault, then go up the legs of the tank to the antennas.
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Big Iron CoLo in Lacey Washington536 viewsNextel and AT&T Wireless share this tower in Lacey, Washington. Notice the climbing space through the bottom platform.
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Two Greek Cows536 views...on the road between Athens and the Athens Airport. Shot through the window of a moving taxi.
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Two Cacti Site - Eagle Mountain Golf Course and Inn535 viewsSprint's site, designed by Larson-USA, is an outstanding deployment.
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Faux 'faux chimney'535 viewsCingular's faux chimney on the rear of a real estate office is a better design than the front faux chimney, yet this chimney suffers from one of the same faults as the front: the panel antenna protrudes above the level of the faux chimney.
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Nextel Camo Site - San Marcos, California535 viewsNextel's poorly-maintained camo site at a medical office building in San Marcos, California.
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Nextime Nextel535 viewsNextel's Rose Bowl COW
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Church Steeple Site in Long Beach, California534 viewsChurch Steeple Site
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Church Site533 viewsThis church site in San Diego is interesting because the of the add-on to the church (on the left side) to house AT&T's base station equipment. The antennas are located in the steeple.
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Flamingos Have Antennas!533 viewsI always focused on the tail feathers of Flamingos. Who knew that they had antennas, too!
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Nextel's Cow and Sprint's Cow: Rose Bowl 2007533 viewsYet another photo of the two COWS (Sprint and Nextel) at the 2007 Rose Bowl Game.
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Pulling Cables Inside a Monopalm533 viewsTechs are installing cables inside this legacy monopalm. Sepulveda Boulevard west of the I-405 in Los Angeles.
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Das da ticket!533 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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It's a Gas! (Overview)531 viewsCompare this photo, taken in June, 2001, with the photo of the same site taken in May 2005. You'll see the original antenna in the center of each sector. Much cleaner than the replacement design. City of Los Angeles (Brentwood area).
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Sprint's San Dimas Water Tank - Entry Port531 viewsLooking up to the entry port of Sprint's water tank in San Dimas, California
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Rebar cage for underground transmitter building - From ramp529 viewsAnother shot of the rebar that forms the soon-to-be underground transmitter building. The roadway in the background goes to the antenna site, adjacent to a camouflaged water tank.
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The Sweet Taste of Signal529 viewsAnother view of the old Loveland Sugar Co. silo, now used as an antenna support for two carriers (Cingular plus an unidentified carrier).
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Surface mounted antennas sometimes just require matching paint528 viewsThis surface mount wireless site is less visible due to the use of matching paint on the antenna radomes. Less visible, but not a true camouflage site.
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Major Co-lo Site - San Clemente, California528 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 south. The antennas for this sector are located behind RF transparent panels just below the roof. One of the panels doesn't match, does it?
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Camo Site Overlooking LAX528 viewsThis apartment building sports mutiple carries in the faux parapet. This site, in El Segundo overlooks LAX. It appears to have 3 carriers co-located here.
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Sprint's COW: Rose Bowl 2006528 viewsSprint's COW at the 2006 Rose Bowl Game.
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Painting on the Sky 5 of 6527 viewsBill's painting on the sky!
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Faux church steeple - Louvers detail526 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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Central Sedona Arizona525 viewsThis multicarrier site is located at Fire Station 4 in Sedona, Arizona.
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Nextel Camo Site - San Marcos, California525 viewsNextel's poorly-maintained camo site at a medical office building in San Marcos, California.
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Looking at the entry area.524 viewsHere's a good look at the entry area and the conduits extending from the transmitter building to what will be underground when the earth is pushed back around the building.
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Wood You Please Support These Antennas?524 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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KMLT Panorama - Almost Done523 viewsThe site is nearly complete. Transmitter vault awaits a final hatch assembly.
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Sleep Wirelessly in San Pablo, California523 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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Antenna arrays mounted on transmission towers521 viewsClose-up view of an antenna array mounted on a power transmission tower.
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Hope (and signal) Sprints Eternal521 viewsAnother view of the camo antennas at Sprint's Hope Church site in Vista California.
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View of the transmitter site from near the antenna site520 viewsHere's an updated view of the KMLT transmitter area take from about 600 fee up the hill (very near the antenna site).
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KMLT Panorama - Almost Done520 viewsThe site is nearly complete. Transmitter vault awaits a final hatch assembly.
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Two on a Stick520 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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NextG DAS - Norwalk, California520 viewsCloseup of NextG Networks DAS light standard node in Norwalk, California. Note the cut-off box grated to the side of the Andrews ION fiber optic node.
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Sprint Camo Elevator Penthouse Site519 viewsA good detail shot of Sprint's antennas located in a faux elevator penthouse.
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Use a Cell Phone: Go to Jail519 viewsSpotted in Las Vegas, New Mexico
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What time is it? Time to make a call!519 viewsSort-of camo site (antennas are on the corners of the clock tower). Thousand Oaks, CA.
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Semi-camo tower518 viewsThe Santa Monica Mountains frame this cell site, located along Interstate 405 near the Getty Center in Los Angeles.
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Camo Site in Shopping Center518 viewsThe camo site is located in the clocktower of this shopping center.
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Looking at Eagles516 viewsAn off-site view of Larson-USA's two cactus design at the Eagle Mountain Inn in Arizona.
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Nextel Cow: Rose Bowl 2006516 viewsNextel's Cow at the 2006 Rose Bowl.
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Verizon 'Small Cell' (Really a DAS node)516 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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Waterproofing the KMLT transmitter building515 viewsThe external concrete forms and braces have been removed; the outside is treated for waterproofing; and the pre-cast holes to permit conduit/cable entry are now visible.
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BTS Equipment Behind Monument Sign515 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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Wireless, with Cables515 viewsThis multicarrier site is at the upper station of the Mt. Roberts Tramway in Juneau, Alaska.
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Major Co-lo Site - San Clemente, California513 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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It Radiates Near Radiation512 viewsThis is a monopole owned by American Tower located in Los Alamos, New Mexico. They work on things there that are better left unspoken (absent a suitable security clearance, that it).
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Cell site crowning a power transmission tower511 viewsThis cell site, in Walnut Creek, California, is atop a PG&E power transmission tower.
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Panoramic view of KMLT - 90% backfilled511 viewsThe entire 'back' portion of the transmitter building is now under dirt. Due to the new location of the trash bin, this panoramic photo is taken from a point to the north of the previous panoramic shots.
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Tarzana, California510 viewsClark Avenue
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Super Signal From Super 8509 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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Ground level wireless site on hilltop - CLOSE UP508 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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Waterproofing the KMLT transmitter building508 viewsAnother view of the transmitter building and the waterproofing.
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AT&T's Upgraded Tree at Camp Pendleton Rest Stop508 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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NextG Distributed Antenna System Node507 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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Sprint Camo Elevator Penthouse Site506 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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Monopoles at Apache Junction, AZ City Hall Campus506 viewsMonopoles at Apache Junction, AZ City Hall Campus
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Park'n the Signal on the Roof505 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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2. Routing the Antenna Cables up to the Roof505 viewsThe coaxial cables for the antennas, including the GPS antenna, are loosely placed against teh wall going up to the roof. As you'll see later, these cables will be secured in a cable tray. At this time the GPS antenna is not yet installed.
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32. Looking down on the Activated Site505 viewsHere's the bird's-eye view looking down at the BTS equipment mounted on the far pad.
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Faux 'faux chimney' - A Different Angle504 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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Tumwater Reservoir, Tumwater, Washington504 viewsNear the Tumwater Airport. Note the airport rotating aerodrome beacon on top of the tank.
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Nextel's Cow and Sprint's Cow: Rose Bowl 2007502 viewsThese Cows belong to Nextel and Sprint. This herd spotted at the 2007 Rose Bowl.
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Equipment Cabinets, GPS and LMU antennas501 viewsCingular's equipment cabinets are mounted in the hardscape area between the curb and sidewalk.
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A Dam Tall Tower501 viewsThis tall tower, well, towers over Hoover Dam in Nevada and/or Arizona. I guess it depends in which state you live. This tower is on the Nevada side.
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What's Red and Whilte and Radiates All Over500 views...it's this T-Mobile lattice tower in Gridley, California.
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Outback with the Signal499 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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Major Macrocell Site (multiple carriers)498 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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Don't worry...the ladder will be removed before the concrete is poured.498 viewsWorkers preping the CEV for the concrete pour. The large holes are to connect to what will be intake and outflow air vents yet to be installed.
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design498 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Light Standard Under Construction497 viewsThe double arms of this light standard, and the radome containing the antennas above the arms are yet to be placed.
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A parking lot light site at the Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe, NM.497 viewsMulti-carrier sites (on parking lot lights) at the Santa Fe Opera in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Cell site on power transmission pole496 viewsThis site in located in British Columbia, Canada.
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Generator Socket495 viewsThis is a standby power generator socket to provide power to the cell site during local commercial power failures
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1. Antennas to be Hidden in Clock Tower495 viewsThree of four sides of the exsting clock tower had walls partially removed to permit the installation of RF-transparent fiberglass panels. As you'll see later, once the antennas are installed behind the panels, the panels are painted and textured to match the rest of the structure, thus hiding the antenna locations.
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14. Installing the Telco Interface and Power Switching Cabinets495 viewsThe large cabinet on the right (with the open door) is to house the telco interface. A telco dataline is used to connect this cell site back to Verizon's mobile telephone switching office. The two smaller cabinets on the left, starting at the far left, are the power breaker panel, and the power generator transfer switch. The transfer switch senses loss of commercial power and automatically starts the generator (yet to be installed) and transfers power to the generator once stabilized. The reverse occurs when the commercial power is restored for a minimum period of time.
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495 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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KMLT's Antenna Fence Under Construction494 viewsThe fence being constructed is to keep the hikers in the area away from the antenna site. At the time this photo was snapped KMLT was operating from its old (aux) transmitter site some miles away.
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Monopole494 viewsA monopole site between Victorville, California and Littlerock, California. Carrier unknown.
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Columns of Signal494 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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A Sign of the T-Mobile Times493 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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Palms guarding cell site - circa 2001492 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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Lots of signal!491 viewsThis is a co-location site located south of Worcester, MA.
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Microcell - Two Sectors491 viewsHigh gain (directional) antennas facing up/down the highway.
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Cell Site Generator Plug and Breaker/Switch-over Panel489 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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Multi-carrier cell site and TVRO downlink487 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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The walls are up...487 viewsThe concrete calls are poured and are hardening. Next, in about 6 days, comes the roof pour and cure.
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Got Desert?487 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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Panoramic view of the KMLT work site and antenna (Roof on)486 viewsThis is an updated panoramic shot of the job site and antenna. The roof is now on the building. Photo taken on a weekend (no workers present).
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Panoramic view of the KMLT work site and antenna (Waterproofing)486 viewsThis panoramic view shows the worksite, the antenna and tower, and the transmitter building with the waterproofing applied to the walls.
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About 75 percent of the building is buried486 viewsThe backfill is covering the building up to about the 75% level. Soon it will be completely buried, and the transmitter and related equipment will be moved in.
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Looking at Eagles486 viewsAn off-site view of Larson-USA's two cactus design at the Eagle Mountain Inn in Arizona.
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A Well-Done Grilled FM Station486 viewsKMLT's transmitter housing present appearance as of May, 2006 is virtually invisible. Easy to miss. Exactly what was intended! Outstanding work by Chris Hicks, KMLT's CE, the City of Thousand Oaks Planning department, and the Conejo Open Space Conservation Agency
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DAS Outboard on Power Meter486 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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486 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design486 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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The Herd at the 2007 Rose Bowl484 viewsNextel, Sprint, and AT&T "cover" the 2007 Rose Bowl Game.
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Time Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area484 viewsTime Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area. Manufactured by BelAir Networks.
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Spectrasite co-location site483 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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Power transmission pole - Underground equipment shelter482 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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Das da ticket!482 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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Cricket in Santa Fe482 viewsThe Fashion Outlets of Santa Fe hosts this Cricket site.
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Panoramic view of the KMLT work site and antenna (Zoom shot)481 viewsThis close-up panoramic shot shows the transmitter site as seen (well, actually, not seen) from near the antenna site.
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design481 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Co-location cell site480 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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Blessed Be This Cell Site479 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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Close-up of GPS Antenna and LMU Antenna478 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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Gimme a Transmitter with Mustard!478 viewsAnother view of the at-grade grill over the transmitter room at KMLT. May 2006
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design478 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Looking at the rear of the CEV.476 viewsA good shot of the base and read of the CEV dig hole.
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CEV ready for concrete pour476 viewsJust waiting on the transit mixer to show up.
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Close-up of Cell Antennas and GPS Antenna on Traffic Signal/Light Standard474 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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Panoramic view of KMLT - 75% backfilled474 viewsThis panoramic photo of the site shows the building backfill nearly complete. Soon it will be time to move in the transmitter and related equipment.
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Rover's Roof474 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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NextG DAS - Encinitas, California473 views
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Rocket South of Santa Fe on I-25473 viewsOne of the worst located sites I have ever run across.
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473 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design473 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Birds on Blue Unique Cell Site Design - Public Art473 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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29. Which Way Tray?472 viewsIt's now January, 2006. The site is active (but without a backup power generator). It seems that the installers missed putting all of the covers on the cable tray. Too bad.
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