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Yerba Buena Island Site Serving the Oakland Bay Bridge655 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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Highland View Pentecostal Assembly - Los Angeles654 viewsThis site's antennas are built into a add-on box on the bell tower.
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Just Signal654 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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32. Looking down on the Activated Site654 viewsHere's the bird's-eye view looking down at the BTS equipment mounted on the far pad.
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Nextel Camo Site - Completed653 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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Gimme a Transmitter with Mustard!653 viewsAnother view of the at-grade grill over the transmitter room at KMLT. May 2006
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Hint: It's Not Canneroni652 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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Cingular BTS651 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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Cell on Taxi ("CAT"?) No... It just Turkcell651 views
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KMLT's Antenna Fence Under Construction649 viewsAnother view of the antenna, and the fence being constructed is to keep the hikers away from the antenna site.
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14. Installing the Telco Interface and Power Switching Cabinets649 viewsThe large cabinet on the right (with the open door) is to house the telco interface. A telco dataline is used to connect this cell site back to Verizon's mobile telephone switching office. The two smaller cabinets on the left, starting at the far left, are the power breaker panel, and the power generator transfer switch. The transfer switch senses loss of commercial power and automatically starts the generator (yet to be installed) and transfers power to the generator once stabilized. The reverse occurs when the commercial power is restored for a minimum period of time.
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It's a Gas!648 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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Yet another awful Mobilitie design647 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Panoramic view of the KMLT work site and antenna (Roof on)646 viewsThis is an updated panoramic shot of the job site and antenna. The roof is now on the building. Photo taken on a weekend (no workers present).
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A Dam Tall Tower646 viewsThis tall tower, well, towers over Hoover Dam in Nevada and/or Arizona. I guess it depends in which state you live. This tower is on the Nevada side.
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Nextel Cow: Rose Bowl 2006646 viewsNextel's Cow at the 2006 Rose Bowl.
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AVEA (A & A) colo with Turk cell site646 viewsColo site: Avea and Turk
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Multi-sector camo panels645 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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PCS at City Hall645 viewsThis Sprint site at the Redondo Beach, California City Hall also supports public safety radio antennas above and below the panels.
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KMLT's Antenna Fence Under Construction645 viewsThe fence being constructed is to keep the hikers in the area away from the antenna site. At the time this photo was snapped KMLT was operating from its old (aux) transmitter site some miles away.
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Highland View Pentecostal Assembly - Los Angeles645 viewsCloseup of the antenna camo boxes on the bell tower. The construction is not very good.
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NextG DAS - Norwalk, California645 viewsCloseup of NextG Networks DAS light standard node in Norwalk, California. Note the cut-off box grated to the side of the Andrews ION fiber optic node.
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Surface mounted antennas sometimes just require matching paint644 viewsThis surface mount wireless site is less visible due to the use of matching paint on the antenna radomes. Less visible, but not a true camouflage site.
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What's Red and Whilte and Radiates All Over644 views...it's this T-Mobile lattice tower in Gridley, California.
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I'll take fries with that signal643 viewsMcDonalds sort-of-camo site in San Diego County
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Generator Socket642 viewsThis is a standby power generator socket to provide power to the cell site during local commercial power failures
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NextG Distributed Antenna System Node642 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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29. Which Way Tray?640 viewsIt's now January, 2006. The site is active (but without a backup power generator). It seems that the installers missed putting all of the covers on the cable tray. Too bad.
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639 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Panoramic view of KMLT - 75% backfilled638 viewsThis panoramic photo of the site shows the building backfill nearly complete. Soon it will be time to move in the transmitter and related equipment.
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Cell Pine Cable Port637 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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The Sweet Taste of Signal637 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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About 75 percent of the building is buried636 viewsThe backfill is covering the building up to about the 75% level. Soon it will be completely buried, and the transmitter and related equipment will be moved in.
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Pulling Cables Inside a Monopalm636 viewsTechs are installing cables inside this legacy monopalm. Sepulveda Boulevard west of the I-405 in Los Angeles.
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Chester, PA Cell Site635 viewsAttention KMART shoppers! Now you can show for sundries and signal at the same time!
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Saguaro Rocks!635 viewsYet another photo of Larson-USA's Fountain Hills, Arizona site for Cingular.
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A "Sort-a-flaged" Site635 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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BTS Equipment Behind Mounment Sign635 viewsCloseup of the equipment behind the monument entry sign at CLU.
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The Sweet Taste of Signal635 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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BTS Equipment, Bottom of Faux Chimney635 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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Church Steeple Site in Long Beach, California635 viewsChurch Steeple Site
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Nextel Camo Site634 viewsThis Nextel camo site is located in Sunnyvale, California. Not seen in this photo is a flat panel (diamond) microwave antenna that is roof mounted.
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A Flagpole Site634 viewsThis is an AT&T Wireless site, later Cingular, shining signal in San Diego on the I-5 Freeway and the Coronado Bay Bridge.
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Two on a Stick634 viewsSprint's BTS equipment is located in the large flush-to-grade vault. It's flush vents bracket the BTS vault.
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The Sweet Taste of Signal634 viewsCingular and an unidentified second carrier use this old silo in Loveland, Colorado. Photo by Steve Allen of Kramer.Firm, Inc.
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Cable route in/out of the CEV634 viewsThis trench will house the power and telephone cable conduits into and out of the CEV, as well as the coaxial cables to the base of the light standard.
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It Radiates Near Radiation634 viewsThis is a monopole owned by American Tower located in Los Alamos, New Mexico. They work on things there that are better left unspoken (absent a suitable security clearance, that it).
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Panoramic view of the KMLT work site and antenna (Zoom shot)633 viewsThis close-up panoramic shot shows the transmitter site as seen (well, actually, not seen) from near the antenna site.
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It's a Gas!632 viewsCompare this photo, taken in June, 2001, with the photo of the same site taken in May 2005. You'll see the original antenna in the center of each sector. Much cleaner than the replacement design. City of Los Angeles (Brentwood area).
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Cable Pulling Vault: Sprint's San Dimas Water Tank632 viewsThe cables from the BTS to the antennas pass through this pulling vault, then go up the legs of the tank to the antennas.
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Where's the Transmitter?631 viewsLooking down from near the antenna, the underground FM transmitter housing is nowhere to be seen! May 2006.
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What time is it? Time to make a call!631 viewsSort-of camo site (antennas are on the corners of the clock tower). Thousand Oaks, CA.
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Faux church steeple - nearing completion630 viewsThe faux church steeple to be used as a cell site is nearing completion. Photo courtesy of Peabody Engineering.
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Cell Pine - Overview630 viewsHere's an overview photo of a cell pine (monopine) standing alone in a shopping center in Walnut, California.
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Cell site on power transmission pole629 viewsThis site in located in British Columbia, Canada.
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Drunk Tank?629 viewsVerizon's 'drunk tank' in Littlerock, California.
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Major Co-lo Site - San Clemente, California628 viewsCo-location camo site (Sprint, Verizon, Nextel, Cingular) at St. Andrews by the Sea United Methodist Church, San Clemente.
This camo sector shines to the south. The antennas for this sector are located behind RF transparent panels just below the roof. One of the panels doesn't match, does it?
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Close-up of a faux 'faux chimney'628 viewsHere's a close-up of Cingular's faux chimney on the rear of a real estate office. Notice how the panel antenna protrudes above the level of the faux chimney. Not good.
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Blessed be the Signal From On High628 viewsVerizon's antennas are in the bell tower of this church in Pomona, California.
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The Sweet Taste of Signal628 viewsAnother view of the old Loveland Sugar Co. silo, now used as an antenna support for two carriers (Cingular plus an unidentified carrier).
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It's a Gas! (Overview)626 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. City of Los Angeles (Brentwood area).
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Park'n the Signal on the Roof626 viewsNotice how the coax ground wires are far from supported, attached, and protected at this site. This is a violation of the NEC 810.21(C) and (D) et seq.
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626 views
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626 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Blessed Be This Cell Site625 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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Now the walls are up...624 views...another view with the side walls poured. The roof is yet to come.
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A Well-Done Grilled FM Station624 viewsKMLT's transmitter housing present appearance as of May, 2006 is virtually invisible. Easy to miss. Exactly what was intended! Outstanding work by Chris Hicks, KMLT's CE, the City of Thousand Oaks Planning department, and the Conejo Open Space Conservation Agency
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Looking at the rear of the CEV.624 viewsA good shot of the base and read of the CEV dig hole.
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Antenna arrays mounted on transmission towers623 viewsClose-up view of an antenna array mounted on a power transmission tower.
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It's a Gas! (Overview)623 viewsCompare this photo, taken in June, 2001, with the photo of the same site taken in May 2005. You'll see the original antenna in the center of each sector. Much cleaner than the replacement design. City of Los Angeles (Brentwood area).
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Nextel's Cow and Sprint's Cow: Rose Bowl 2007623 viewsThese Cows belong to Nextel and Sprint. This herd spotted at the 2007 Rose Bowl.
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Pulling Cables Inside a Monopalm623 viewsTechs are installing cables inside this legacy monopalm. Sepulveda Boulevard west of the I-405 in Los Angeles.
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Time Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area623 viewsTime Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area. Manufactured by BelAir Networks.
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Cricket in Santa Fe623 viewsThe Fashion Outlets of Santa Fe hosts this Cricket site.
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The walls are up...622 viewsThe concrete calls are poured and are hardening. Next, in about 6 days, comes the roof pour and cure.
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Nextel Camo Site - San Marcos, California622 viewsNextel's poorly-maintained camo site at a medical office building in San Marcos, California.
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The Herd at the 2007 Rose Bowl622 viewsNextel, Sprint, and AT&T "cover" the 2007 Rose Bowl Game.
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Camo Site Overlooking LAX621 viewsThis apartment building sports mutiple carries in the faux parapet. This site, in El Segundo overlooks LAX. It appears to have 3 carriers co-located here.
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Rocket South of Santa Fe on I-25621 viewsOne of the worst located sites I have ever run across.
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AT&T's Upgraded Tree at Camp Pendleton Rest Stop621 viewsAT&T has just upgraded this monopine site to 4G and materially improved the camouflage. Much better than before. N/B I-5 at the rest stop.
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Faux 'faux chimney'620 viewsCingular's faux chimney on the rear of a real estate office is a better design than the front faux chimney, yet this chimney suffers from one of the same faults as the front: the panel antenna protrudes above the level of the faux chimney.
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Tarzana, California620 viewsClark Avenue
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Cell site crowning a power transmission tower619 viewsThis cell site, in Walnut Creek, California, is atop a PG&E power transmission tower.
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BTS Equipment Behind Monument Sign619 viewsAt California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California. The antennas are in the radome atop the parking lot lights (seen in this background right of this photo), and the BTS equipment is behind the monument entry sign.
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Sprint's San Dimas Water Tank - Entry Port619 viewsLooking up to the entry port of Sprint's water tank in San Dimas, California
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27. The Name Goes On Before the Quality Goes In619 viewsThe pad has been poured, again, and the fense is on it's tracks. No BTS yet, but the site sign has gone up announcing to the world that this is Verizon's Armacost site!
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Ground level wireless site on hilltop - CLOSE UP618 viewsThis is a close-up of a cell site atop a hill above a major Interstate Highway. The antennas are mounted at ground level.
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KMLT's Roof is On618 viewsIn three weeks the roof will cure and dirt will be pushed to close in the hole.
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Proud Waves From Sprint (2 of 3)618 viewsSprint's installation at the Scottsdale Ranch Community Center features two flagpoles in a nicely landscaped area adjacent to a lake.
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BTS Equipment Enclosure618 viewsSprint's BTS equipment is located in this CMU walled enclosure at the Hope Church site in Vista, California.
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Church Site617 viewsThis church site in San Diego is interesting because the of the add-on to the church (on the left side) to house AT&T's base station equipment. The antennas are located in the steeple.
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DAS Outboard on Power Meter617 viewsOnce more, Cingular (now AT&T) employs the cabinet-on-a-cabinet technique of placing its DAS note, here in Rolling Hills Estates, California.
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Wood You Please Support These Antennas?616 viewsUbiquitel uses wood panels to replace antennas not installed on the two-antenna mounts atop this PG&E power tower in Oakhurst, California. This site is at 2765 Powerline Road.
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31. Cable Termination to BTS Jumpers615 viewsHere's a nice photo of the the cable terminations for the hardline cable to/from the roof, and the jumper to the equipment cabinet. The colored bands identify what cable is connected to what antenna.
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Monopoles at Apache Junction, AZ City Hall Campus615 viewsMonopoles at Apache Junction, AZ City Hall Campus
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Nextel Camo Site - San Marcos, California614 viewsNextel's poorly-maintained camo site at a medical office building in San Marcos, California.
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Wireless, with Cables614 viewsThis multicarrier site is at the upper station of the Mt. Roberts Tramway in Juneau, Alaska.
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Semi-camo tower613 viewsThe Santa Monica Mountains frame this cell site, located along Interstate 405 near the Getty Center in Los Angeles.
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Power transmission pole - Underground equipment shelter612 viewsThis cell site, on a power transmission pole, is connected to a controlled environment vault ("CEV"). The CEV is an underground room housing the equipment. The hatch for the CEV is the green box show below and to the left of the pole.
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A parking lot light site at the Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe, NM.612 viewsMulti-carrier sites (on parking lot lights) at the Santa Fe Opera in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Faux church steeple - Nearly complete610 viewsThe faux church steeple to be used as a cell site is nearly complete. Final matching will occur on site. The RF-transparent louvers are to be installed after this photo, but before delivery to the job site. Photo courtesy of Peabody Engineering.
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33. Personals Ad: "Concrete Pad Sks Standby Pwr Gen!"610 viewsAs noted above, the standby power generator isn't (yet) installed here. Who knows...maybe it'll never be installed, but if it is, this is where it'll go.
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Pulling Cables Inside a Monopalm610 viewsTechs are installing cables inside this legacy monopalm. Sepulveda Boulevard west of the I-405 in Los Angeles.
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Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosey610 viewsWater tank site or giant doorknob in Maryland.
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Faux church steeple - Louvers detail609 viewsThe faux church steeple will be completed with louvers. This photograph is a close-up of the louver detail. These louvers are transparent to radio frequency signals. Photo courtesy of Peabody Engineering.
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Elevated Water Tank Cell Site609 viewsArtwork adorns this 4-level multi-carrier water tank site near Philadelphia.
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Monopole609 viewsA monopole site between Victorville, California and Littlerock, California. Carrier unknown.
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Hope (and signal) Sprints Eternal608 viewsAnother view of the camo antennas at Sprint's Hope Church site in Vista California.
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CEV ready for concrete pour608 viewsJust waiting on the transit mixer to show up.
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8 foot antenna on building608 viewsA rather ugly 8' antenna stuck on the side of a building in Tarzana, California
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Panoramic view near antenna looking at the KMLT work site607 viewsHere's a good overview of the KMLT transmitter site, under construction, and the City of Thousand Oaks in the background. The camera position is about 30 feet south of the antenna.
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Multi-carrier cell site and TVRO downlink606 viewsThe multiple carrier tower isn't connected with the TVRO satellite antennas in front, but it makes for a nice picture. This site is located in northern San Antonio, Texas at a very large church facility. An interesting note: The antenna structure registration number shown on the site is, per the FCC's database, cancelled. Interesting!
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Major Macrocell Site (multiple carriers)605 viewsThis is an example of a traditional multiple carrier macrocell site. Note the large microwave antennas facing to the right: They are used to provide high-reliability connection of this site to the MTSO some 25 miles away.
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Faux church steeple - Looking inside604 viewsThe faux church steeple to be used as a cell site has plenty of room inside for antenna installation. Photo courtesy of Peabody Engineering.
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Equipment Cabinets, GPS and LMU antennas604 viewsCingular's equipment cabinets are mounted in the hardscape area between the curb and sidewalk.
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30. BTS Installed and Humming604 viewsThe site is active. This photo is looking down on the site BTS equipment cabinet through the roof fence. You'll see more of the fense in a later photo.
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Spectrasite co-location site602 viewsThis Spectrasite cell/microwave site is located in Carson, California. The tower is registered to what is now Verizon Wireless. Note how the microwave antennas are identified by code to permit identification of specific microwave antennas from ground level. It's located in an "Enterprise" zone (sorry...inside joke).
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Microcell - Two Sectors602 viewsHigh gain (directional) antennas facing up/down the highway.
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Two Cacti Site - Eagle Mountain Golf Course and Inn602 viewsSprint's site, designed by Larson-USA, is an outstanding deployment.
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Blessed Be This Cell Site602 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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602 views
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So-so Camo'ed Pop-Up Site in Los Angeles (San Fernando Valley)602 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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Yet another awful Mobilitie design601 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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Yet another awful Mobilitie design601 viewsLos Angeles: Vermont north of Wilshire
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CoLo Site - Escondido, California600 viewsMesa Rock Road north of Deer Creek Road, Escondido, California.
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NextG DAS - Encinitas, California599 views
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Oh thank heavens for RF from 7-11598 viewsHere's an example of a microcell designed to illuminate a road segment for adding spot capacity. Notice that the apartment (right of the antenna) is just off the main lobe beam.
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Sleep Wirelessly in San Pablo, California598 viewsMetroPCS site inside the legs of a Holiday Inn Express sign. For more views of this site, visit http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/ex/1/en/hotel/spoca?_requestid=302192.
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Cell Site Generator Plug and Breaker/Switch-over Panel597 viewsMany cell sites must operate 24/7, even in the event of a commercial power failure. Most carriers have standby power generators that can be driven to cell sites and plugged in to a generator plug such as the one shown to the right of the breaker/switch-over panel. This facility is owned by AT&T Wireless. It's in the western part of Los Angeles.
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Yahoo! What a site!597 viewsThis omnidirection site is in Santa Monica, California. The GPS antenna is the right (north) of the antennas on the roof.
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Sprint Camo Elevator Penthouse Site597 viewsA good detail shot of Sprint's antennas located in a faux elevator penthouse.
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3. Base Telecommunications Station Equipment597 viewsThis new addition to the existing structure at the rear of the building is to house the BTS equipment, plus a future standby power generator, power switching equipment, and a telephone interface panel. The standby power generator pad is the the one nearest the fence. The BTS equpipment pad is to the rear-left in this photo. Later, things will change a bit...oops!
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Los Angeles Cathedrial597 viewsA surface mount antenna site at the Los Angeles Cathedral.
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Great Scott!596 viewsYet another view of a pole-mounted cell site in Scottsdale, Arizona. Notice the LMU antenna mounted at the top.
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