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

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Wireless sites on power transmission towers668 viewsA new trend to install wireless antenna arrays on high voltage power transmission towers. These new co-location sites are gaining popularity due their preexisting right of ways and available height.
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One Sassy Site665 viewsVerizon's site, called "Sassy" near Lake Elsinore, California is designed as a faux Cypress tree. One of my staff looked at the photo and named it "Chia Cell." From its shape, this could also be a camo missile, ready to be launched against competitive wireless carriers! "Houston, we have a problem!"
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2008 Rose Bowl Herd - AT&T Wireless665 viewsAT&T's entry into the 2008 Rose Bowl Rodeo. Much nicer than in previous years.
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You Can Rest Your Signal Here664 views...at the Lemon Tree motel in Pomona, California. It's the site of this Cingular wireless cell sign and well-hidden BTS cabinet. This site overlooks Interstate 10/SR57/SR71 interchange.
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Pulling Cables Inside a Monopalm663 viewsTechs are installing cables inside this legacy monopalm. Sepulveda Boulevard west of the I-405 in Los Angeles.
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Palms guarding cell site - circa 2004661 viewsThis is a cell site 'guarded' by live palm trees. Its the same site I photographed in late 2001 (see that photo in this gallery). Notice how the live palms have grown, and so have the houses around the site!
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Great Scott!661 viewsScottsdale has some very interesting pole mounted sites. This long view of several carriers' sites shows an interesting deployment scheme to cover subdivisions along Shea Road.3 comments
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It's a Gas!660 viewsCompare this photo, taken in May 2005, with the photo of the same site taken in June 2001. You'll see the replacement of the center antenna in each sector. Not nearly as clean as the original design, shown here. City of Los Angeles (Brentwood area).
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Great Scott! (Some more)660 viewsThis close-up view shows a very stylish use of an iron sculpture to provide an interesting surround to a cell site BTS.3 comments
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Sign me up!659 viewsSprint's site, at the intersection of I-405 and I110 in Gardena, California, is built atop a commercial enterprise sign. See: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=gardena,ca&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=29.025693,55.107422&ie=UTF8&ll=33.857997,-118.283083&spn=0.000873,0.002701&t=h&z=19&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=33.857997,-118.283083&panoid=cnzdeipYOjdDXyBwyMclfQ&cbp=12,307.77006332815694,,0,-20.14375050524673
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Multipurpose monopole658 viewsThis tall monopole belonging to a Southern California radio station is occupied at several levels by various communications services.
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Hollow Rock?657 viewsAnother view of the faux rock on the left, bottom of the cell cactus. The rock hides the cable entry into the Saguaro cactus design. Larson-USA design.
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Penthouse extension656 views...without much concern for matching textures (brick pattern). Shared Sprint and AT&T Wireless site.
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Camo Sprint Site656 views...on Montana Avenue at 15th Street in Santa Monica. The two bumps to the right top of the cam parapet are work lights, not antennas.
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Camo site under construction655 viewsNextel's antennas are behind the foam panel. Site engineering and fabrication by Peabody Engineering.
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Corner parapets hide antennas655 viewsThe cell antennas are behind the add-on parapets on each building corner.
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NextG Distributed Antenna System Node655 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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BTS Equipment, Top and Bottom of Faux Chimney654 viewsThis Cingular-built site in El Segundo, California, now owned by T-Mobile, overlooks LAX. The building houses a mortuary. In this picture you see the BTS equipment and the cables feeding to the bottom of the faux chimney. A steeple on the LAX side of the building serves the airport.
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Faux Roof Penthouses654 viewsThe three rooftop enclosures house cell equipment/antennas. Torrance, California.
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Camo LUG on Apartment Building653 viewsThis LUG (generator socket) is installed on an apartment building in El Segundo, California, overlooks Los Angeles International Airport.
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Village of Oak Creek near Sedona653 viewsTwo camouflaged sites are seen (barely) in this shopping center along Highway 179 in the Village of Oak Creek, near Sedona, Arizona.
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Nextel antenna structure on top of an industrial building652 viewsOpen antenna structures have little impact in industrial areas.
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Sprint Camo Elevator Penthouse Site652 viewsYet another view of Sprint's faux penthouse site on the top of the elevator.
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Faux Steeple Site Overlooking LAX652 viewsThis Cingular-built site in El Segundo, California, now owned by T-Mobile, overlooks LAX. The building houses a mortuary. In this picture you see the relationship between the site and the west complex of LAX. This is a $million dollar view of LAX, but I suspect the mortuary isn't quite making all that from T-Mobile.
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Close-up of anti-Bird-bomb net over antennas651 viewsHere's a close-up photo of the net placed over the antennas to keep the birds off (and to keep them from bombing the cars below)!
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Super Signal From Super 8651 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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The Sweet Taste of Signal651 viewsA view of the jumper-to-hardline and grounding point for this unidentified carrier at the old Loveland Sugar Co. silo. The colored tape is used to identify the antenna sectors and whether the antennas are transmit or receive. Loveland, Colorado.
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Sprint Camo Site648 viewsThe antennas are housed in the white tower extension. The BTS equipment is in a fenced area adjacent to the yellow posts (see left side of photos). The clock is one of those special ones that only tells time twice each day.
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Major Co-lo Site - San Clemente, California648 viewsCo-location camo site (Sprint, Verizon, Nextel, Cingular) at St. Andrews by the Sea United Methodist Church, San Clemente.

This non-camo sector shines north along Interstate 5.
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Nextel's Cow and Sprint's Cow: Rose Bowl 2007648 viewsThese Cows belong to Nextel and Sprint. This herd spotted at the 2007 Rose Bowl.
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BTS Equipment, Top and Bottom of Faux Chimney647 viewsThis Cingular-built site in El Segundo, California, now owned by T-Mobile, overlooks LAX. The building houses a mortuary. In this picture you see the BTS equipment and the cables feeding to the bottom of the faux chimney. A steeple on the LAX side of the building serves the airport.
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Fax Steeple Site Overlooking LAX647 viewsThis Cingular-built site in El Segundo, California, now owned by T-Mobile, overlooks LAX. The building houses a mortuary. Note that the chimney shown in this photo IS NOT the camo faux chimney in the rear of the property. This is the building real chimney.
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Faux Water Tank, plus...646 viewsAlong the I15 just at the north end of Escondido you'll find this site. It contains a camo water tank, a second carrier below (on the legs), and ground-mounted antennas to the right of the tank.
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Multi-Carrier Panels646 viewsJust west of Interstate 5 in San Diego County, California. Notice that anyone can walk up to the ground-mounted panel antennas via the path in the foreground. This site is not fenced.1 comments
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A well lit monolight brought to you by Verizon646 views...in the San Fernando Valley. A Verizon site. The base station equipment is located in one of the mall stores, which Verizon has taken over and added a new interior door.
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What's that wrapping around the antennas?645 viewsHere's an interesting site (close up in next photo). Notice that there are cars parked in the auto body shop lot directly below the antennas. Perhaps birds like to take aim and, er, hit the cars below. What a clever carrier solution! Put a net around the antennas to keep the birds off.
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Camo, almost matching... (2 of 2)645 viewsThis Cingular site is a good example of the need to carefully plan how much of an existing wall will be replaced with a fiberglass camo panel. In this case, the cut out portion of the wall, now replaced with a painted/textured RF transparent panel, is clearly visible. A better approach would have been for the carrier to cut from wood panel edge to panel edge so that the difference, if visible, would have been more uniform.
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Building top multi-sector cell site643 viewsYet another roof-top cell site. This is a macrosite adjacent to a major freeway in Los Angeles.1 comments
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Does RF Signal Leak Out of a Signal Tank?643 viewsA view of Sprint's San Dimas, California water tank site.
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The Sweet Taste of Signal643 viewsA close-up view of the platform system used to elevate and level the equipment cabinets for this unidentified carrier at the Loveland Sugar Co. silo, Loveland, Colorado.
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Nextel's Cow and Sprint's Cow: Rose Bowl 2007643 viewsThese Cows belong to Nextel and Sprint. This herd spotted at the 2007 Rose Bowl.
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Irvine, Califoria multicarrier site643 viewsThis is an outstanding multicarrier camo site in Irvine, CA
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PCS Base Station below PG&E Power Tower642 viewsUbiquitel's BTS in Olivehurst, California is located in a wood-fenced enclosure below the PG&E power transmission tower.
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KMLT's Antenna and Support Pole642 viewsThis photograph captures the final execution of KMLT's antenna. Yes, the steel support pole is painted sky blue. May 2006.
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Painting on the Sky 3 of 6641 viewsBill continues his way down the the PCV pole supporting KMLT's antenna.

Photo thanks to Bill Cloutier.
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Drunk Tank?640 viewsYet another view of the 'drunk tank' in Littlerock, California. The BTS equipment shelter is located behind the building in the foreground.
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Omni-directional Microcell on Sign639 viewsThis AT&T Wireless site, at Fairfax and Pico in Los Angeles, is an example of placing a microcell site atop an existing, small sign.

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

Nope, I don't want to drive my car over that lid, either!
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Pulling Cables Inside a Monopalm639 viewsTechs are installing cables inside this legacy monopalm. Sepulveda Boulevard west of the I-405 in Los Angeles.
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Just park that signal!639 viewsT-Mobile's recently upgraded parking lot site in Long Beach, California.
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I feel the power in Claremont, California (2 of 2)638 viewsThis is Verizon's equipment building for its church cross antenna site off I-210 in Claremont, California. Note the gas power generator mounted adjacent to the equipment building. Verizon seems to be adding gas gens where permitted to allow for uninterrupted service in the event of a local power failure.
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Illuminating the Way 1 of 2638 viewsThis 'lighthouse' supports an AT&T Wireless and Sprint co-lo site in Dana Point, California, just adjacent to the Ritz Carlton Hotel. Notice the antennas on the railing at the top.
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Eagle Mountain Cellular Cactus638 viewsEagle Mountain Inn, Arizona. Design by Larson-USA. It's an outstanding Sprint site.
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Power Meter, Transfer Switch, Generator Plug638 viewsSprint's water tank site in San Dimas features this power meter, transfer switch, and generator plug. Okay, it's not really featured, but it sure is part of the design.
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A Sassy Power Generator638 viewsVerizon's Sassy site features this remote power generator. Note that the fuel tank isn't here, but rather it's located in the main BTS fenced area about 50 feet away (and to the left of this view).
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Now You Don't See It, and Now you Don't!638 viewsA very unusual cell rock design encloses both Sprint's equipment building and its antennas. Riverside County, just south of Palm Desert, Caifornia. This view is looking east from an area not usually accessible to visitors.
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Sprint microcell - Base Station, Backhaul, and Powering637 viewsThe base station is the large box. Below it is the interface box that extracts power from the coaxial cable backhaul system. At the bottom, in the small box, is the power regulation transformer. Note that this installation, in California, does not comply with CPUC General Order 95 as it has cables below 8 feet above ground that are not in conduit.
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Proud Waves From Sprint (1 of 3)636 viewsSprint has created this very nice flagpole site at the Scottsdale Ranch Community Center in Scottsdale, Arizona. Note that each flagpole has a light illuminating the other flagpole's flag. The flags are in good condition. The equipment enclosure is the right in the photo (look for the GPS antenna). Points to Sprint for this design, save for the visible GPS antenna which should have been hidden.
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KMLT Antenna and Support636 viewsThe steel pole supporting the antenna is now painted blue to help it blend into the sky background.
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Obelisque du Signal636 viewsThis cellular Obelisque is located at the interchange of California SR241 and SR133 in the City of Irvine, Calfornia. A similar but smaller wireless obelisque is located at The Spectrum in Irvine (a photo is on this site).

This view is looking to the east from Portola Road.
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Blessed be the Signal From On High635 viewsVerizon's antennas are in the bell tower of this church in Pomona, California.
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Freeway wireless site634 viewsThis double wireless array is situated on a building located immediately adjacent to the I-5 Freeway in Los Angeles.
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Camo site atop standalone church tower634 viewsThis church, in Irvine, California, has a Cingular site above the stained glass in the stand-alone tower.
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Painting on the Sky 6 of 6634 viewsA close up of Bill priming the next section of the pole, and...from the looks of it...part of his left hand.
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A "Sort-a-flaged" Site (Close-up)634 viewsIt's hard to hide in plain sight when the plain site is not well hidden. Thanks to Larry Thomas for identifying this as a Sprint site.
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Camo faux brick wall - close up633 viewsThe antennas are hidden behind the faux brick face. Photo courtesy of Peabody Engineering.
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Top of Poorly Maintained Faux Chimney633 viewsThis Cingular-built site in El Segundo, California, now owned by T-Mobile, overlooks LAX. The building houses a mortuary. In this picture you see a very poorly maintained faux chimney. A brick facade panel is coming off. The cable, telephone, and power drops should be relocated to achive the required NEC clearances.
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Faux Roof Penthouses633 viewsThe three rooftop enclosures house cell equipment/antennas. Torrance, California.
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Light Standard Under Construction633 viewsThe double arms of this light standard, and the radome containing the antennas above the arms are yet to be placed. The light standard is located in the greenbelt median of the roadway.
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It's a sign...it's a monopole...it's a sign...it's a monopole631 viewsWhy, it's both, in Henderson, Nevada.
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Pulling Cables Inside a Monopalm630 viewsTechs are installing cables inside this legacy monopalm. Sepulveda Boulevard west of the I-405 in Los Angeles.
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CoLo Site - Escondido, California630 viewsMesa Rock Road north of Deer Creek Road, Escondido, California.
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We'll leave the Verizon Cell Site on for you.630 viewsVerizon's mono-sign site at a Motel 6 in Vista, California.
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BTS Equipment at Church - Part 2629 viewsThis Cingular site is ready for a second carrier. Notice the conduits, leading to power, telephone, and the camo antenna site inside the church tower (see the related photos in this gallery).
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A Sign of the T-Mobile Times628 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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Das da ticket!628 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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Cingular Flag Pole627 viewsThis "super-sized" flag pole camo site is located at a... Well, you can see for yourself.
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Making calls in Comfort627 viewsNextel invites you to make calls via its camo site atop this Comfort Inn in Fountain Hills, Arizona
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I hear the T-Mobile Bells A-ring'n627 viewsT-Mobile camo site in a church bell tower. The BTS cabinets are behind the CMU enclosure at the rear of the church.
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Guess which puts out more power?626 viewsThis is a massive power transmission tower that supports two different carriers. Yeah, the tower's REALLY that big.
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City Hall Clock Tower626 viewsIrvine, California's civic center is a sight to behold. The clock tower above the site supports public safety radio antennas, and an omni-direction antenna cell site.
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It's a Grand Old Flag...Again626 viewsCingular has replaced the old, torn US Flag with this fine one. The code inspector in this community had a chat with Cingular to let them know that the old, Old Glory was a bit too old (and torn). Look further down in this gallery to see the sad 'before' photo.
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Cell Call Box625 viewsWhere there's nothing else vertical, some carriers will build cell sites on call boxes. This call box (now replaced) was installed on the Pacific Coast Highway near Point Mugu, California. The base station equipment was located in the flush vault in the foreground.
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Utility Wood Pole Top Mount624 viewsCingular's three sector antenna system is mounted at the top of the utility pole it installed (it has a PBM pole number). The equipment cabinets are located to the right of the pole.
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Gallons of Fun624 viewsVerizon's Sassy site has a standby power generator. This above-ground tank holds 305 gallons of fuel. It's inside the main equipment area, which is physically separated from the power generator by about 50 feet.
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Nextel's Cow and Sprint's Cow: Rose Bowl 2007624 viewsThese Cows belong to Nextel and Sprint. This herd spotted at the 2007 Rose Bowl.
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Pulling Cables Inside a Monopalm624 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!623 viewsAT&T uses a distributed antenna system (DAS) to light this site on Valley Circle in the San Fernando Valley (Los Angeles County). The DAS node, manufactured by Andrew Corporation, is the small box affixed to the larger power meter pedestal cabinet. Notice that the node is not directly affixed, but is held via stand-offs.
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Hint: It's Not Canneroni621 viewsThese are three section covers of a faux flagpole barely in the City of Los Angeles, California. They're off while Cingular works on its antennas (see the photos in this gallery).
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Highland View Pentecostal Assembly - Los Angeles621 viewsCloseup of the antenna camo boxes on the bell tower. The construction is not very good.
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Side Saddle Microwave Dish Installation620 viewsAnother view of this cell site which 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.1 comments
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Highland View Pentecostal Assembly - Los Angeles620 viewsThis site's antennas are built into a add-on box on the bell tower.
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Constructing the underground transmitter building for KMLT-FM619 viewsThis photograph shows the excavation and initial construction for the underground transmitter building to house KMLT-FM in Thousand Oaks, California. If you look carefully at the middle of the ridgeline you can just see the antenna and antenna post about 700 feet away.
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Sun, Sail, and Signal #1619 viewsThis camo chimney is located at the Sun and Sail Club in Lake Forest, California. The AT&T Wireless and Cingular antennas are behind the faux rock detail at the top of the chimney.
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Sprint's Camo Water Tank in San Dimas (Overview)619 viewsThis photo provides an overview of the entire site. The faux tank is to the right. The equipment bay is just off to the left of center. The AC panel, transfer switch, and LUG connector are in the center.
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Just Signal619 viewsThis Cingular-constructed site in Irvine California has its antennas above the clocks. It's located at a "Just Tires" store.
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Verizon Plays Golf618 viewsThis Verizon Wireless wireless site is camouflaged atop this tower at a golf course. Quite a nice design, and extremely well executed. Dare we call it a 'hole-in-one?'
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Nextel Camo Site - Completed618 viewsElsewhere in this gallery you'll find a photo of this site while under construction. This photo shows the completed site.
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Camo, almost matching... (1 of 2)618 viewsThis Cingular site is a good example of the need to carefully plan how much of an existing wall will be replaced with a fiberglass camo panel. In this case, the cut out portion of the wall, now replaced with a painted/textured RF transparent panel, is clearly visible. A better approach would have been for the carrier to cut from wood panel edge to panel edge so that the difference, if visible, would have been more uniform.
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Cingular BTS618 viewsThis BTS installation at a Cingular site in Tustin, California is somewhat interesting as it is mounted between two buildings. The faux chimney antenna sites at this location are detailed in other photographs.
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BTS Equipment Behind Mounment Sign618 viewsCloseup of the equipment behind the monument entry sign at CLU.
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Cell site on power transmission pole617 viewsThis site in located in British Columbia, Canada.
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Sprint Camo Elevator Penthouse Site617 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. If you look closely on the top of the parapet you'll see a pair of AT&T Wireless (now Cingular) omnidirectional antennas. Those antennas are featured elsewhere in this gallery.
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It's a Gas!617 viewsUSA Gas in Irvine, California sports this nifty T-Mobile flag site. Cingular has a proposal to change out the flagpole for a dual-carrier flagpole.
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Spectrasite Co-Lo Multisector at Different Levels616 viewsSpectrasite tower supports a three sector wireless system, with one of the sectors lower than the other two (to help shape coverage). Also, this site supports an omnidirection carrier (the vertical antennas on top of the tower). 2 comments
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NextG Distributed Antenna System Node616 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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Hope (and signal) Sprints Eternal615 viewsAnother view of the camo antennas at Sprint's Hope Church site in Vista California.
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Not part of an underground water river...615 viewsThe water bottle is not part of the CEV.
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Sprinting to the Finish615 viewsSprint Fat Cow at the Rose Bowl
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CellSign Updated614 viewsThis AT&T wireless site has been modified since the last time we photographed it. Search for "Pico" to find the original site configuration. Originally, this was a single band site; now this is a dual band site. The boxes adjacent to the amplifiers are called "tower mounted amplifiers" (TMAs).
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AT&T's Upgraded Tree at Camp Pendleton Rest Stop614 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. Note the camo around the microwave antenna.
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Two levels? No problem!613 viewsThis cell site, located on Yerba Buena Island in the San Francisco Bay serves both levels of the Bay Bridge.
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A true Solar Cell612 viewsThis is a photo of AT&T's solar powered cell site just north of CA52 at Mast Road in San Diego. This site connects back to the mobile telephone switching office via a microwave antenna (behind the panel).
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Cell Pine - Overview609 viewsHere's an overview photo of a cell pine (monopine) standing alone in a shopping center in Walnut, California.
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Wireless, with Cables609 viewsSome of the base station equipment cabinets (cellular, paging, etc.) at the upper landing of the Mt. Roberts Tramway in Juneau, Alaska
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Lambert Ranch - Irvine, California608 viewsNextel's site is to the far left. Sprint's site is in the foreground. Verizon uses the short tower in the rear-right of the photo.
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BTS Equipment Behind Mounment Sign607 viewsCloseup of the equipment behind the monument entry sign at CLU.
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Multi-sector camo panels605 viewsThis is an interesting, albeit less than good example of externally mounting panels in camo boxes. Notice how the antenna panel cables are visible above the left-hand panel box, and below the right-hand panel box.
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Cell Pine Cable Port605 viewsConsider this a shot of the roots of the cell pine. Actually, it's one of two cable ports on the side of our little tree.
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Cabinet Pads in the Transmitter Vault605 viewsThe raised concrete pads lift the transmitter and air conditioning cabinets off of the floor. That's real handy where water might pool around it, don't ya know! Photo by Bill Cloutier.
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BTS Equipment, Bottom of Faux Chimney605 viewsThis Cingular-built site in El Segundo, California, now owned by T-Mobile, overlooks LAX. The building houses a mortuary. In this picture you see the BTS equipment and the cables feeding to the bottom of the faux chimney. A steeple on the LAX side of the building serves the airport.
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NextG Distributed Antenna System Node605 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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Big Iron CoLo in Lacey Washington605 viewsNextel and AT&T Wireless share this tower in Lacey, Washington. Notice the climbing space through the bottom platform.
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Saguaro Rocks!604 viewsYet another photo of Larson-USA's Fountain Hills, Arizona site for Cingular.
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Flamingos Have Antennas!604 viewsI always focused on the tail feathers of Flamingos. Who knew that they had antennas, too!
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KMLT Almost Buried602 viewsIf you compare this photo with past photos you'll notice that half the transmitter building is now buried. When complete only the ground level access in the foreground of the building will remain. The pullbox to the left of center is for electrical power. The pullbox to the far right is for the coaxial egress point to feed the antenna.
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Nextime Nextel602 viewsNextel's Rose Bowl COW
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Pulling Cables Inside a Monopalm602 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!602 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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I'll take fries with that signal602 viewsMcDonalds sort-of-camo site in San Diego County
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KMLT Almost Buried - Just a few weeks of work left!601 viewsThe underground transmitter building is almost complete. Just waiting on the stairs and hatch to be installed. The fencing is still not in final shape at the antenna. Most of the construction 'stuff' has left the site for points unknown. April 2005.
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Two Greek Cows601 views...on the road between Athens and the Athens Airport. Shot through the window of a moving taxi.
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A "Sort-a-flaged" Site599 viewsLearning the techniques...and the results...of planning wireless sites can be demonstrated by this site. This result serves as a sound basis to continue to upgrade the camouflage techniques that are applied to projects of this type. Optimally, Sprint's BTS cabinet would not be visible, and the RF transparent panels would be incorporated into a rooftop treatment that doesn't call attention to itself. Thanks to Larry Thomas for identifying this as a Sprint site.
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The Transit Mixer has Arrived...599 views...so let the pouring begin!
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Sprint's COW: Rose Bowl 2006599 viewsSprint's COW at the 2006 Rose Bowl Game.
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Nextel's Cow and Sprint's Cow: Rose Bowl 2007598 viewsYet another photo of the two COWS (Sprint and Nextel) at the 2007 Rose Bowl Game.
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About three hundred years apart598 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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598 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Drunk Tank?597 viewsVerizon's 'drunk tank' in Littlerock, California.
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The Sweet Taste of Signal597 viewsCloseup of the Cingular and unidentified second carrier panels and microwave in use on this old silo in Loveland, Colorado. Photo by Steve Allen of Kramer.Firm, Inc. Loveland Sugar Co.
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Yerba Buena Island Site Serving the Oakland Bay Bridge597 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 Signal596 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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Unipole in Lacey, Washington596 viewsA T-Mobile unipole site in Lacey, Washington at the King Oscar Motel. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=kings+car+motel+lacey+washington&sll=33.857997,-118.283083&sspn=0.000873,0.002701&ie=UTF8&cd=1&ll=47.061194,-122.766165&spn=0,354.468384&t=h&z=8&iwloc=A&layer=c&cbll=47.061194,-122.766165&panoid=dqNvyTifCTgz-nLk-Ftupw&cbp=12,3.8848713226988707,,0,-6.115048506611214
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