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

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Most viewed - Non-Camouflaged Sites
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The Golden Signal519 viewsHere's a close-up of one of T-Mobile's sector antennas and tower-mounted amplifiers at its Chico, California water tank site.
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NextG Distributed Antenna System Node519 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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Tumwater Reservoir, Tumwater, Washington519 viewsNear the Tumwater Airport.
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Nextel's Interesting Lattice Tower517 viewsA Nextel site using an interesting lattice tower to support its antennas and microwave antennas.
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Sprint microcell - Single Sector516 viewsA Sprint single sector microcell site on Mullholland Road in Los Angeles.
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Two on a Stick516 viewsHere's a close-up of the dual antennas on this wood pole in Santa Monica, California. Sprint is on the bottom; Cingular is that mass at the top. By the way, the palm is not a camouflage element of Cingular's antennas.
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Park'n the Signal on the Roof515 viewsThe cable wiring for this site leaves something to be desired. Notice how the cables are attached to wood blocks.

PMBS>Cingular>T-Mobile at The Grand Long Beach Event Center, 4101 East Willow St.
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Old Power Tower = New Cell Tower514 viewsThe power utility removed its wires from this old transmission tower, but still uses it to support a cell site.
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God Bless This Cell Site514 viewsLocated east of I-17 in Black Rock City, Arizona, this multicarrier site has an odd shaped antenna mounted directly to the tower. A message, perhaps?
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Steel in the Air512 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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Co-location external generator sockets511 viewsWhen the commercial power fails, many carriers rely on portable power generators to keep cell sites operating. Here are two generator sockets at a co-lo site (Verizon and AT&TWS [now Cingular]).
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Parking lot cell site511 viewsHere's another, wider view of a cell site mounted on a parking lot light standard in San Francisco.
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509 viewsA Verizon MTSO in Stockton, California.
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Verizon MTSO Orange County508 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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Two on a Stick508 viewsCingular and Sprint share this wood light pole in Santa Monica, California. Cingular's antennas, pictured here, are on the top. Sprint's antennas are on an arm below the bottom of the photograph. Both carriers use completely underground BTS equipment enclosures and flush-to-grade vent systems.
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Big Iron CoLo in Lacey Washington508 viewsNextel and AT&T Wireless share this tower in Lacey, Washington
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Park'n the Signal on the Roof507 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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Co-location cell site505 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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Galt High School Doesn't Lack for Signal505 viewsThree out of four light standards at the Galt (California) High School Warrior Stadium are cell sites. Well, that still leaves 25% growth potential!
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Sprint's Drive Test Rover503 viewsThis is a Sprint vehicle used to receive the test signal emitted from the temporary transmitter van. This van drives a predetermined area collecting signal strength data for later mapping.
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External co-location monopole502 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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PCS-Transmitter-in-a-Box502 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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NextG Distributed Antenna System Node502 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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CoLo Site - Escondido, California502 viewsMesa Rock Road north of Deer Creek Road, Escondido, California.
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A Real Education501 viewsThis Cingular site is located on the grounds of Fountain Valley (California) High School.
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Sending out the word...to Los Angeles International Airport499 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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Cell site on power transmission tower497 viewsHere's a fairly standard non-camo wireless site on a power transmission tower.
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Central Sedona Arizona497 viewsLocated at Fire Station 4 in Sedona, Arizona, this multicarrier site has an attractive backdrop.
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A Crown Castle Site in Mesa, Arizona495 viewsBig iron in Mesa. A Crown Castle site on Broadway near Country Club.
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SFO Airport - Terminal 2/Admin Building494 viewsYup. There's the panel antenna.
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Lighting the Lot494 viewsSprint's interesting little Mono-Parking-Lot-Light-Site in San Fernando, California
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Righty Tighty Lefty Loosy494 viewsIt's either a water tank or a big door knob. Oh yes, it has antennas on it.
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Sutter County Lattice Tower492 viewsHere's a closer view of the SR99/Howsley Road lattice towre in Sutter County, California.
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Salzburg, Austria cell site - Apartment Building491 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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San Mateo Bridge490 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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Microcell - Two Sectors490 viewsNotice the GPS antenna (the mushroom shaped device) on the crossarm.
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Cellular Billboard Sign490 viewsSpotted in Philadelphia.
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Microcell - Two sectors489 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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PGE Transmission Tower Cell Site488 viewsSpotted in Walnut Creek, California: A cell site mounted atop a PGE transmission tower.
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Guyed Tower - Antennas Vertically Stacked488 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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Tip-to-Tip 2 of 2488 viewsHere are four antennas mounted in a "tip-to-tip" configuration. Notice the faux antenna cover used to blend each of the two vertical antennas on the right side of the pole. Also clearly seen are the antenna downtilt mounts, and pole-mounted pre-amplifiers.

This site is located in San Francisco and shines signal on US101. The equipment cabinets for this site are seen in an adjacent photo in this gallery.
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Cell site in Salzburg, Austria487 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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Lolipop Antenna Mount487 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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NextG Distributed Antenna System Node485 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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A Modest Cell Site?484 viewsThis water tank sports multiple panel antennas. Modesto, California.
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Wireless, with Cables484 viewsClose up of the multicarrier site at the upper station of the Mt. Roberts Tramway in Juneau, Alaska.
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Multi-carrier Omnis and Panels483 viewsOn the west side of Interstate 5 in San Diego County, California.
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Tower Towers Over the Santa Fe Plaza483 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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A Terrible Missile Rises Over the New Mexico Horizon482 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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Field of Signals481 viewsCingular's light standard site in the Thousand Oaks Park in Thousand Oaks, California.
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NextG Distributed Antenna System Node481 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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Amish Area Cell Tower481 views...in Bird in Hand, Pennsylvania, in the heart of the Amish country.
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Blessed Be This Cell Site480 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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Co-location cell sites on paired power transmission towers479 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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The Leaning Tower of Victorville479 viewsVerizon's 3-sector wood pole is ever-so-slowly leaning over. Victorville, California.
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Waves of Power478 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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Color can make all the difference - Close up476 viewsThe antenna panels, while not camo, are nicely blended into the underlying structure.
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Sprint - Microcell using Sanders CATV radio474 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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Two on a Stick474 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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Single Carrier Monopole472 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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Cell Site on a Power Pole (Crown Design)472 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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Grand Canyon - South Rim472 viewsThis multicarrier site is located near the Bright Angle Lodge at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
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Power on the Tower471 viewsAn AT&T site on a SCE transmission tower in Thousand Oaks, California.
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Cell Sign470 viewsSpotted in Redwood City, California, this two sector cell site provides spot coverage along the US101.
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Multi-carrier Cell Site Cleverly Disguised As An Upscale Hotel469 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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Field of Signals469 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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Federally Protected Bird's Next in Taos, NM469 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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Store that Signal!468 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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Monopole Power Tower Cell Site467 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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Verizon MTSO San Diego 1 of 2467 viewsThis photo shows Verizon's Mobile Telephone Switching Office and tower in San Diego, California.
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Take me to the Opera!467 viewsA parking lot light site at the Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe, NM.
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Sock-it-to-me466 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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Ketchikan Me if you Kan466 viewsMulticarrier site in Ketchikan, Alaska
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Multi-carrier Omnis and Panels465 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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Side Saddle Microwave Dish Installation463 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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Take me to the Opera!462 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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I'll Turn Left on a Green Sector...461 viewsFountain Hills area of greater Phoenix. A three sector site atop a traffic and light standard.
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Arlington, VA Multicarrier Site461 views...at Washington Blvd. and 25th.
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More Power from Power...458 views...plant, that is. San Diego County, California.
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Wireless site on a major transmission tower, Irvine, CA456 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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Sprint microcell - Two Sectors456 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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Microcell - Two Sectors455 viewsYet another pole-mounted two-sector cell site.
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AT&T Wireless (Cingular) Omni Site455 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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Santa Fe Country Club455 viewsMono-Golfball Screen
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Two Sectors - One into a hillside!454 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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Two Sectors - One into a hillside!454 viewsOkay, here's a panoramic photograph of Sprint's excellent RF into the accessible hillside.
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Top Hat Wireless?454 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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A New Sign of the Times451 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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Wait 'Till We Get Our Haines Signal On You!450 viewsMulticarrier site above Haines, Alaska
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Tip-to-Tip 1 of 2449 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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Tall Tower to Save Birds449 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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Microcell - Two Sectors448 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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The Tower Company Tower448 viewsSounds circular, eh? Located in Chico, California.
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Which Way is the Wind Blowing?448 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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Tower Towers Over the Santa Fe Plaza448 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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A Pair of Monopoles in Gorman, California448 viewsAt the northern end of Los Angeles County along I-5.
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Drive Test Rover Ready To Run447 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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On the Fence446 viewsSome wireless carriers mount their antennas on the outside of water tank sites atop hilltops.
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Powering Up Santa Fe445 viewsT-Mobile occupies the top of this power transmission pole near the Plaza in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Rooftop macrocell444 viewsYet another rooftop macrocell site. Santa Monica, California.
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Ketchikan Me if you Kan444 viewsMulticarrier site in Ketchikan, Alaska
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A Terrible Missile Rises Over the New Mexico Horizon444 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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Omnidirectional to Sectorized443 viewsThese poles formerly supported omnidirectional cell antennas. The carrier increased capacity by replacing the omni antennas with sectorized panel antennas.
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Parking lot cell site442 viewsThe cell antennas are mounted on the light standard on the roof of a public parking lot in San Francisco.
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Blessed Be This Cell Site441 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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Santa Fe Country Club441 viewsMono-Golfball Screen
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Sprint Omni Site440 viewsSprint's underground equipment vault
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Santa Fe Country Club439 views
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Parking the Signal438 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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Building Topper438 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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438 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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Church Bell Tower With External Antennas437 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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Sending out the word...to Interstate 10436 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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Power Transmission Tower Site436 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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Hitting the signal out of the park435 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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A Singular Pole for a Cingular Site435 viewsAmerican Tower leases this monopole to Cingular. It's located in Biggs, California (American Tower Site No. 82517).
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Uninspired Cricket Wireless Site in Mesa, AZ434 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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High Power - Higher Education434 viewsSprint has this site at the Irvine Valley College in Irvine, California.
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Spectrasite in Paramount, California433 viewsYet another Spectrasite installation, this time in Paramount, California (looking north).
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A Terrible Missile Rises Over the New Mexico Horizon433 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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Sprint on a Stick in San Diego County433 views
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Cell Service, USN Style432 viewsThis is a photo of a cell site at the USN Amphibious Base in San Diego.
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Really, really flat vines on this pole!431 viewsA Spectrasite site in Montebello, CA.
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Grand Canyon Valle Airport431 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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Ground level wireless site on hilltop - Overview429 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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Park'n the Signal on the Roof429 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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Store that Signal!429 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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Oil's Well that Emits Well428 viewsOld oil wells can make good cell sites, even when a building has been built around the base!
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Multi carrier array427 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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Two Sectors - One into a hillside!427 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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Church Bell Tower Mount427 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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Manny, Moe and Jack427 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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The Golden Signal426 views...from this water tank site in Chico, California belongs to T-Mobile.
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A cell site on a power transmission monopole425 viewsIn Thousand Oaks, California. Note that the BTS equipment is underground.
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Multi-sector wireless site with microwave interconnect423 views
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Cellular Billboard Sign423 viewsSpotted in Philadelphia.
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Multi Carriers on Multi Power Towers423 viewsThese antennas sites are located on SCE power transmission towers in Irvine, California.
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Cell Call Box (Version 2)423 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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Restful Signal422 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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Time to Shippee Out the Signal422 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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Simple, single carrier wireless site420 viewsSimple monopole with a single carrier
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This signal ISN'T watered down420 viewsNote the panel antennas well below the tank.
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Sutter County Lattice Tower420 viewsOff of CA SR99 at Howsley Road in Sutter County, you'll find this lattice tower.
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Power transmission pole - L.A. Dept. of Water & Power419 viewsThis power transmission pole, located in Tarzana, California, supports a cell site.
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Cricket in Santa Fe419 viewsThe Fashion Outlets of Santa Fe hosts this Cricket site.
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