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

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So-so Camo'ed Pop-Up Site in Los Angeles (San Fernando Valley)443 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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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 Site442 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 views
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441 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles441 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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Sort-of Camo on Face of Shopping Center Tower440 viewsA less-than-inspired design in a shopping center in Chino, CA. Not impressive, and barely camo.
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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California440 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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439 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 Antennas438 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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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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Irvine, Califoria multicarrier site438 viewsThis is an outstanding multicarrier camo site in Irvine, CA
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19. Now You See the Cables...Now You Don't437 viewsAnd the cables in the BTS area are also safely tucked away under the cover of the tray.
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22. Another View of the New Generator Wood Frame437 viewsYup, it's clearly rotated 90 degrees from before. Oh well.
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23. An outside view fo the BTS Equipment Area437 views...with the sliding fense not installed on the track, yet.
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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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A Singular Pole for a Cingular Site436 viewsAmerican Tower leases this monopole to Cingular. It's located in Biggs, California (American Tower Site No. 82517).
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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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Spectrasite in Paramount, California434 viewsYet another Spectrasite installation, this time in Paramount, California (looking north).
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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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7. A Close-Up View of Two Sectors of RF-Transparent Panels434 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 Horizon434 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 County434 views
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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California434 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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Cell Service, USN Style433 viewsThis is a photo of a cell site at the USN Amphibious Base in San Diego.
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Time Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area433 viewsTime Warner Cable Wireless Node in Santa Monica/West Los Angeles Area. Manufactured by BelAir Networks.
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AVEA (A & A) cell site433 viewsMasterful way of ventilating the equipment building
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Really, really flat vines on this pole!432 viewsA Spectrasite site in Montebello, CA.
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Grand Canyon Valle Airport432 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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Tarzana, California431 viewsClark Avenue light standard
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So-so Camo'ed Pop-Up Site in Los Angeles (San Fernando Valley)431 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 site431 viewsThis is an outstanding multicarrier camo site in Irvine, CA
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Irvine, Califoria multicarrier site431 viewsThis is an outstanding multicarrier camo site in Irvine, CA
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431 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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431 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Birds on Blue Unique Cell Site Design - Public Art431 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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Ground level wireless site on hilltop - Overview430 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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Church Bell Tower Mount430 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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T-Mobile Camo in Palos Verdes Estates, California430 viewsClose up of the of the business end of the building.
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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California430 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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430 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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430 viewsAdjacent to 5445 Hollywood Blvd, Ste D, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles430 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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Oil's Well that Emits Well429 viewsOld oil wells can make good cell sites, even when a building has been built around the base!
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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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Two Sectors - One into a hillside!428 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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The Golden Signal428 views...from this water tank site in Chico, California belongs to T-Mobile.
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Manny, Moe and Jack428 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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A Tank of Signal428 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 Angeles428 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 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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Verizon Camo Church Site 427 viewsAt St. Margaret's in Chino, CA
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles427 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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Das Mock-up in Palos Verdes Estates, California426 viewsAn incomplete mock up showing the proposed DAS equipment and antennas but none of what will be visible cables interconnecting them.
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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California426 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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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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Restful Signal425 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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T-Mobile Camo Site 425 viewsT-Mobile Camo Site at New Hope Christian Church in Chino, CA
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles425 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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Cellular Billboard Sign424 viewsSpotted in Philadelphia.
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Multi Carriers on Multi Power Towers424 viewsThese antennas sites are located on SCE power transmission towers in Irvine, California.
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NextG DAS - Encinitas, California424 views
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Cell Call Box (Version 2)424 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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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles424 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-sector wireless site with microwave interconnect423 views
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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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NextG DAS - Encinitas, California422 views
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Verizon Camo Church Site 422 viewsAt St. Margaret's in Chino, CA
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Birds on Blue Unique Cell Site Design - Public Art422 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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Simple, single carrier wireless site421 viewsSimple monopole with a single carrier
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles421 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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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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NextG DAS - Encinitas, California420 views
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Cricket in Santa Fe420 viewsThe Fashion Outlets of Santa Fe hosts this Cricket site.
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8 foot antenna on building420 viewsA rather ugly 8' antenna stuck on the side of a building in Tarzana, California
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Chimney Site with Elevated BTS Platform - Hermosa Beach, California420 viewsThis site features a chimney to hide the antennas (except from behind) and an elevated BTS equipment cabinet platform.
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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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Restful Signal419 viewsHere's a non-camo three sector Sprint site located on a motel sign post in Azusa, California.
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Santa Fe Country Club419 viewsMono-Golfball Screen
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Salzburg, Austria cell site418 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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Smokestack BTS equipment418 viewsThis is the base station equipment cage next to the smokestack site in Westborough, MA.
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Pumping more then water...418 views...from this water plant in Hartford, CT. Note the antennas on the righthand smokestack.
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Color can make all the difference418 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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Great Scott! (Even more)418 viewsYet another example of a pole-mounted cell site in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Field of Signals418 viewsCingular's light standard site in the Thousand Oaks Park in Thousand Oaks, California.
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CornucopiaMicrowave Horn in Las Vegas, New Mexico418 viewsThis is a 'cornucopia' (high performance) microwave antenna at the CenturyLink Central Office in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
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Co-location cell site417 viewsYACS: Yet another co-location cell site.
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles417 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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Monopole416 viewsA monopole site between Victorville, California and Littlerock, California. Carrier unknown.
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Mobilitie New Wood Pole Pox in West Los Angeles416 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 Angeles416 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 on a Stick414 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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Catch a Dream With This Site414 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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Radio Plaza in Santa Fe, NM414 viewsThis is an updated photo of the Radio Plaza site, overlooing the historic central plaza in Sante Fe, New Mexico.
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A Tank of Signal413 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 Angeles413 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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Great Scott!412 viewsYet another view of a pole-mounted cell site in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Lattice Tower in Sutter County412 viewsOff of California State Route 70 at Nicolaus Road you'll find this lattice tower site.
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