 Most viewed - Wireless Sites
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PCS-Transmitter-in-a-Box427 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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Verizon MTSO Orange County427 viewsThis VZW MTSO (mobile telephone switching office) is in Santa Ana, California. The height of the tower is 60.7 meters AGL.
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NextG DAS - Norwalk, California426 viewsNextG Networks DAS light standard site in Norwalk, California.
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NextG DAS - Norwalk, California426 viewsNextG flush-to-grade vault in Norwalk, California.
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A Tank of Signal426 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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Righty Tighty Lefty Loosy425 viewsIt's either a water tank or a big door knob. Oh yes, it has antennas on it.
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Poorly designed Church bell tower site424 views
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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.
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Who left the door open?423 viewsA mono-obelisk in Irvine, California
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423 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Co-location cell site422 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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A Crown Castle Site in Mesa, Arizona422 viewsBig iron in Mesa. A Crown Castle site on Broadway near Country Club.
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Steel in the Air422 viewsThis AT&T wireless site is located on Highway 64, about 12 miles south of Valle, Arizona. It's mounted on a steel power transmission pole. Note the flat panel back-haul antenna located below the panels.
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We'll leave the Verizon Cell Site on for you.422 viewsVerizon's mono-sign site at a Motel 6 in Vista, California.
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Camo Water Tank420 viewsCamo Water Tank in San Dimas, CA
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Cell site on power transmission tower419 viewsHere's a fairly standard non-camo wireless site on a power transmission tower.
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Co-location cell sites on paired power transmission towers419 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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Microcell - Two sectors419 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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SFO Airport - Terminal 2/Admin Building418 viewsYup. There's the panel antenna.
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design417 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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CoLo Site - Escondido, California416 viewsMesa Rock Road north of Deer Creek Road, Escondido, California.
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Lolipop Antenna Mount416 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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Sprint's Residential Cell Site416 viewsSprint constructed this stand-alone cell site at a private residence in San Diego County adjacent to San Marcos.
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A Tank of Signal416 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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Tarzana, California416 viewsClark Avenue light standard
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Sending out the word...to Los Angeles International Airport415 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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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles414 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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NextG Distributed Antenna System Node413 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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NextG Distributed Antenna System Node413 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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Lighting the Lot413 viewsSprint's interesting little Mono-Parking-Lot-Light-Site in San Fernando, California
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Cell site in Salzburg, Austria412 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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Amish Area Cell Tower412 views...in Bird in Hand, Pennsylvania, in the heart of the Amish country.
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Tarzana, California412 viewsClark Avenue light standard
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412 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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412 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design412 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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PGE Transmission Tower Cell Site411 viewsSpotted in Walnut Creek, California: A cell site mounted atop a PGE transmission tower.
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A Terrible Missile Rises Over the New Mexico Horizon411 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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Yet another awful Mobilitie design411 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Microcell - Two Sectors410 viewsNotice the GPS antenna (the mushroom shaped device) on the crossarm.
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NextG Distributed Antenna System Node410 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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Verizon 'Small Cell' (Really a DAS node)410 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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410 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Birds on Blue Unique Cell Site Design - Public Art410 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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A Modest Cell Site?409 viewsThis water tank sports multiple panel antennas. Modesto, California.
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409 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Single Carrier Monopole408 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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Cellular Billboard Sign408 viewsSpotted in Philadelphia.
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Sutter County Lattice Tower408 viewsHere's a closer view of the SR99/Howsley Road lattice towre in Sutter County, California.
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408 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Tarzana, California407 viewsClark Avenue light standard
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Color can make all the difference - Close up406 viewsThe antenna panels, while not camo, are nicely blended into the underlying structure.
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Field of Signals406 viewsCingular's dual CEV site at Thousand Oaks Park in Thousand Oaks, California. Notice the GPS/LMU antenna bolted to the side of the CEV in the foreground.
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design406 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles406 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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San Mateo Bridge405 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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Guyed Tower - Antennas Vertically Stacked404 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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Grand Canyon - South Rim404 viewsThis multicarrier site is located near the Bright Angle Lodge at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
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So-so Camo'ed Pop-Up Site in Los Angeles (San Fernando Valley)403 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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Irvine, Califoria multicarrier site403 viewsThis is an outstanding multicarrier camo site in Irvine, CA
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Salzburg, Austria cell site - Apartment Building402 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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Yet another awful Mobilitie design402 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Field of Signals401 viewsCingular's light standard site in the Thousand Oaks Park in Thousand Oaks, California.
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Cell Site on a Power Pole (Crown Design)401 views...on 19th near Tuckahoe in Fairfax Co., VA near I66. Notice how the cable ladder is attached to the pole using straps.
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Take me to the Opera!401 viewsA parking lot light site at the Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe, NM.
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design401 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Sprint microcell - Two Sectors399 viewsThis two sector microcell provides spot service along Mulholland Highway in Los Angeles. Note the good use of brown paint to provide some blending with the pole and arms.
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The Leaning Tower of Victorville399 viewsVerizon's 3-sector wood pole is ever-so-slowly leaning over. Victorville, California.
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Time Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area399 viewsTime Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area. Manufactured by BelAir Networks.
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Sprint - Microcell using Sanders CATV radio398 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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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.
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design398 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles398 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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Ketchikan Me if you Kan397 viewsMulticarrier site in Ketchikan, Alaska
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Tarzana, California397 viewsClark Avenue light standard
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Federally Protected Bird's Next in Taos, NM396 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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Power on the Tower396 viewsAn AT&T site on a SCE transmission tower in Thousand Oaks, California.
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AT&T Site Undergoing a 4G Upgrade396 viewsThis site, at 703 Montana in Santa Monica, California is undergoing an upgrade to 4G.
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Two Sectors - One into a hillside!395 viewsAs seen in the accompanying photo, the left-pointing antennas (sector) seem to provide excellent coverage for the hillside, and not much beyond it. It would be interesting to know how much power this site and antennas produce, and whether any portion of the hillside is in an RF controlled zone. The hillside, as you can see in the photo, is quite accessible to the general public.
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Irvine, Califoria multicarrier site395 viewsThis is an outstanding multicarrier camo site in Irvine, CA
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395 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design395 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design395 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Waves of Power394 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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Poorly designed Church bell tower site394 views
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Two Sectors - One into a hillside!393 viewsOkay, here's a panoramic photograph of Sprint's excellent RF into the accessible hillside.
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Blessed Be This Cell Site393 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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Wireless, with Cables393 viewsClose up of the multicarrier site at the upper station of the Mt. Roberts Tramway in Juneau, Alaska.
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393 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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393 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design393 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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AT&T Wireless (Cingular) Omni Site391 viewsJust park your BTS equipment in this space and you're good to go. AT&T Wireless built this dual band cellular/PCS site in West Los Angeles adjacent to a large regional mall and a busy intersection.
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Take me to the Opera!391 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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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles391 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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Top Hat Wireless?390 viewsHere's a different spin on hanging antennas from a pole. The other poles along this strand line are shorter, but AT&T Wireless replaced the existing pole with a taller one to provide room at the top to hang its three sectors of panel antennas.
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Store that Signal!390 viewsThe roof-mounted cable tray supporting the antenna coax cables can be clearly seen in this photo. The cable tray protects the coaxial cable from being damaged, here from people walking and working on the roof. Damaged coaxial cables most often seriously degrade the received and transmitted signals.
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design390 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Verizon MTSO San Diego 1 of 2389 viewsThis photo shows Verizon's Mobile Telephone Switching Office and tower in San Diego, California.
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Two on a Stick388 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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Tip-to-Tip 1 of 2387 viewsThis equipment cabinets of this site are behind an unlocked gate. Many of the cable conduit pull caps have been removed exposing the site wiring.
Note the antennas mounted in a "tip-to-tip" configuration. A close up of the antennas is seen in an adjacent photo in this gallery.
This site is located in San Francisco and shines signal on US101.
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NextG DAS - Norwalk, California387 viewsNextG Networks DAS light standard site in Norwalk, California.
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AT&T Clock Tower - Public Park387 viewsAT&T Clock Tower Site in Rio Rancho, NM
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Tarzana, California387 viewsClark Avenue light standard
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design387 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Multi-carrier Omnis and Panels386 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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Drive Test Rover Ready To Run386 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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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.
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Rooftop macrocell384 viewsYet another rooftop macrocell site. Santa Monica, California.
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Cell Sign384 viewsSpotted in Redwood City, California, this two sector cell site provides spot coverage along the US101.
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I'll Turn Left on a Green Sector...384 viewsFountain Hills area of greater Phoenix. A three sector site atop a traffic and light standard.
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Tarzana, California384 viewsClark Avenue light standard
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More Power from Power...382 views...plant, that is. San Diego County, California.
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Hitting the signal out of the park382 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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Side Saddle Microwave Dish Installation381 viewsThis cell site uses a microwave dish antenna system to provide backhaul to the MTSO. The interesting note for this site is the side saddle (offset) installation of the dish antenna. In most metro installations, a microwave antenna saves the carrier the cost of leasing a telco dataline, but at the expense of adding visual loading to the project.
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Multi-carrier Cell Site Cleverly Disguised As An Upscale Hotel381 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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T-Mobile Camo Site 381 viewsT-Mobile Camo Site at New Hope Christian Church in Chino, CA
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Tarzana, California381 viewsClark Avenue light standard
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A Pair of Monopoles in Gorman, California380 viewsAt the northern end of Los Angeles County along I-5.
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Monopole Power Tower Cell Site379 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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On the Fence379 viewsSome wireless carriers mount their antennas on the outside of water tank sites atop hilltops.
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Powering Up Santa Fe379 viewsT-Mobile occupies the top of this power transmission pole near the Plaza in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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