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

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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles399 viewsMobilitie has planted this awful wood pole in West Los Angeles. Note the standoffs for the equipment and conduits. A small cell? I think not.
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Sprint Omni Site398 viewsSprint's underground equipment vault
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Wireless site on a major transmission tower, Irvine, CA397 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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Ground level wireless site on hilltop - Overview397 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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22. Another View of the New Generator Wood Frame397 viewsYup, it's clearly rotated 90 degrees from before. Oh well.
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Irvine, Califoria multicarrier site397 viewsThis is an outstanding multicarrier camo site in Irvine, CA
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Sending out the word...to Interstate 10396 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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Omnidirectional to Sectorized395 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 the Signal395 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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Power Transmission Tower Site395 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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The Tower Company Tower395 viewsSounds circular, eh? Located in Chico, California.
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7. A Close-Up View of Two Sectors of RF-Transparent Panels395 viewsThis is a close-up of the rear of the bell tower modified to enclose the antennas.
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A Terrible Missile Rises Over the New Mexico Horizon395 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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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California395 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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395 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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23. An outside view fo the BTS Equipment Area394 views...with the sliding fense not installed on the track, yet.
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Tarzana, California394 viewsClark Avenue light standard
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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California394 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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394 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Park'n the Signal on the Roof392 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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Irvine, Califoria multicarrier site392 viewsThis is an outstanding multicarrier camo site in Irvine, CA
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Really, really flat vines on this pole!391 viewsA Spectrasite site in Montebello, CA.
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19. Now You See the Cables...Now You Don't391 viewsAnd the cables in the BTS area are also safely tucked away under the cover of the tray.
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A Terrible Missile Rises Over the New Mexico Horizon391 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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AVEA (A & A) cell site391 viewsMasterful way of ventilating the equipment building
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles391 viewsMobilitie has planted this awful wood pole in West Los Angeles. Note the standoffs for the equipment and conduits. A small cell? I think not.
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Church Bell Tower Mount390 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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A Singular Pole for a Cingular Site390 viewsAmerican Tower leases this monopole to Cingular. It's located in Biggs, California (American Tower Site No. 82517).
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390 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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Ketchikan Me if you Kan390 viewsMulticarrier site in Ketchikan, Alaska
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T-Mobile Camo in Palos Verdes Estates, California390 viewsClose up of the of the business end of the building.
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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California390 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles390 viewsMobilitie has planted this awful wood pole in West Los Angeles. Note the standoffs for the equipment and conduits. A small cell? I think not.
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Uninspired Cricket Wireless Site in Mesa, AZ389 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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Cell Service, USN Style389 viewsThis is a photo of a cell site at the USN Amphibious Base in San Diego.
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389 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles389 viewsMobilitie has planted this awful wood pole in West Los Angeles. Note the standoffs for the equipment and conduits. A small cell? I think not.
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Two Sectors - One into a hillside!388 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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High Power - Higher Education387 viewsSprint has this site at the Irvine Valley College in Irvine, California.
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Verizon Camo Church Site 387 viewsAt St. Margaret's in Chino, CA
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Color can make all the difference386 viewsThis non-camo site is tastefully painted to blend in with the underlying structure. Better than most, not a good as some.
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles386 viewsMobilitie has planted this awful wood pole in West Los Angeles. Note the standoffs for the equipment and conduits. A small cell? I think not.
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Grand Canyon Valle Airport385 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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Time Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area385 viewsTime Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area. Manufactured by BelAir Networks.
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So-so Camo'ed Pop-Up Site in Los Angeles (San Fernando Valley)385 viewsThis is a so-so camo rooftop site in the San Fernando Valley portion of Los Angeles. It uses open-back pop-ups on the building to mostly hide the antennas.
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Irvine, Califoria multicarrier site385 viewsThis is an outstanding multicarrier camo site in Irvine, CA
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385 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles385 viewsMobilitie has planted this awful wood pole in West Los Angeles. Note the standoffs for the equipment and conduits. A small cell? I think not.
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Field of Signals384 viewsCingular's light standard site in the Thousand Oaks Park in Thousand Oaks, California.
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Sprint on a Stick in San Diego County384 views
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Church Bell Tower With External Antennas383 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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Cell Call Box (Version 2)383 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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Birds on Blue Unique Cell Site Design - Public Art383 viewsThis public art cell site was designed by Ron Pekar and Sandy McDaniel; brought to life by Esteban John DuPont's CellTech Wireless, sponsored by Crown Castle, and authorized by the City of San Diego. This is a wonderful result for a great collaboration. Located at CA905 and Beyer Blvd in San Diego.
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Power transmission pole - L.A. Dept. of Water & Power382 viewsThis power transmission pole, located in Tarzana, California, supports a cell site.
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Co-location cell site381 viewsYACS: Yet another co-location cell site.
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Spectrasite in Paramount, California381 viewsYet another Spectrasite installation, this time in Paramount, California (looking north).
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Santa Fe Country Club381 viewsMono-Golfball Screen
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Verizon Camo Church Site 381 viewsAt St. Margaret's in Chino, CA
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles381 viewsMobilitie has planted this awful wood pole in West Los Angeles. Note the standoffs for the equipment and conduits. A small cell? I think not.
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Multi Carriers on Multi Power Towers380 viewsThese antennas sites are located on SCE power transmission towers in Irvine, California.
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T-Mobile Camo Site 380 viewsT-Mobile Camo Site at New Hope Christian Church in Chino, CA
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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California380 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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Oil's Well that Emits Well379 viewsOld oil wells can make good cell sites, even when a building has been built around the base!
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Building Topper379 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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Store that Signal!379 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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Manny, Moe and Jack379 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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NextG DAS - Encinitas, California379 views
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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California379 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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Salzburg, Austria cell site378 viewsThis is a cell site on the roof of a bank in Salzburg, Austria. I snapped this photo from my hotel room across the street after having lectured on cell sites at the Center for International Legal Studies.
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A cell site on a power transmission monopole378 viewsIn Thousand Oaks, California. Note that the BTS equipment is underground.
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A Tank of Signal378 viewsT-Mobile's water tank cell site, which doubles as a residential community sales sign. San Diego, California. Built in 2002, you can read about this site here: http://tinyurl.com/TMO-Tank
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles377 viewsMobilitie has planted this awful wood pole in West Los Angeles. Note the standoffs for the equipment and conduits. A small cell? I think not.
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The Golden Signal376 views...from this water tank site in Chico, California belongs to T-Mobile.
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles376 viewsMobilitie has planted this awful wood pole in West Los Angeles. Note the standoffs for the equipment and conduits. A small cell? I think not.
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles376 viewsMobilitie has planted this awful wood pole in West Los Angeles. Note the standoffs for the equipment and conduits. A small cell? I think not.
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Multi carrier array374 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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Monopole374 viewsA monopole site between Victorville, California and Littlerock, California. Carrier unknown.
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Time to Shippee Out the Signal374 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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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles374 viewsMobilitie has planted this awful wood pole in West Los Angeles. Note the standoffs for the equipment and conduits. A small cell? I think not.
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Self-supporting cell tower - Mass Turnpike373 viewsThis co-location site is in Newton, MA along the turnpike.
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This signal ISN'T watered down373 viewsNote the panel antennas well below the tank.
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Sutter County Lattice Tower373 viewsOff of CA SR99 at Howsley Road in Sutter County, you'll find this lattice tower.
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Multi-sector wireless site with microwave interconnect372 views
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Cellular Billboard Sign372 viewsSpotted in Philadelphia.
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Two on a Stick372 viewsCingular and Sprint share this wood light pole in Santa Monica, California. Cingular is on the top, and Sprint is on the arm. Both carriers use completely underground BTS equipment enclosures and flush-to-grade vent systems.
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NextG DAS - Encinitas, California372 views
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NextG DAS - Encinitas, California372 views
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Birds on Blue Unique Cell Site Design - Public Art372 viewsThis public art cell site was designed by Ron Pekar and Sandy McDaniel; brought to life by Esteban DuPont's CellTech Wireless, sponsored by Crown Castle, and authorized by the City of San Diego. This is a wonderful result for a great collaboration. Located at CA905 and Beyer Blvd in San Diego.
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles372 viewsMobilitie has planted this awful wood pole in West Los Angeles. Note the standoffs for the equipment and conduits. A small cell? I think not.
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles372 viewsMobilitie has planted this awful wood pole in West Los Angeles. Note the standoffs for the equipment and conduits. A small cell? I think not.
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Pumping more then water...371 views...from this water plant in Hartford, CT. Note the antennas on the righthand smokestack.
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Great Scott! (Even more)370 viewsYet another example of a pole-mounted cell site in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Catch a Dream With This Site370 viewsLocated ajacent to the "Dreamcatcher Cinema" in Espanola, NM, this uni-pole-ish, mon-pole-ish site is owned by TowerCo.
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Cricket in Santa Fe370 viewsThe Fashion Outlets of Santa Fe hosts this Cricket site.
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8 foot antenna on building370 viewsA rather ugly 8' antenna stuck on the side of a building in Tarzana, California
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T-Mobile Camo in Palos Verdes Estates, California370 viewsPano of the front of the building.
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Smokestack BTS equipment369 viewsThis is the base station equipment cage next to the smokestack site in Westborough, MA.
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Power Transmission Tower Site369 viewsNextel's site not only provides local cell coverage along a highly traveled (and very dangerous) state highway, it also serves as a repeater site to relay MTSO connections to a site yet further away. If you didn't understand that, give me a call and I'll explain! :-) Between Victorville and Littlerock, California.
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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California369 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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