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Pretty busy with wireless providers, commercial antennas, microwave dishes... The whole enchilada is on this baby. I can feel my hair stand on end while snapping off these photos due to the large amount of RF dissipating!!! (Just kidding!). This tower is right next to an old large water tower and has been here for many many years. I guess they have reached capacity and still need room, hence the new additional monopole they erected just recently to accommodate the growth. Every licensed Massachusetts wireless carrier is at this site: Cingular Verizon Wireless T-Mobile (a.k.a. OMNIPOINT or VoiceStream) Nextel Cingular Sprint PCS Parris Wood Writes on Friday May 9, 2003: I suspect those omnidirectional antennas (seen best in pictures 1 and 4) are for Cingular Interactive. Looks like from top to bottom; Sprint PCS,
Omnipoint, BAM and Cingular Wireless. Those paddle panel antenna are
for an 800mhz cellular carrier, not PCS. The climber I spoke with installing
them at a new Alltel colocation told me they run 60k each and can do
both analog and digital signals. I can tell for sure that they are BIG
pains in the ass to try and take readings from if your trying to pin
point which base_id and pn combo goes where. Very directional! Take a gander: Crown Castle Site Picture (this same site a few years back) Here you can see the old BAM antenna before they were changed out to those panels I mentioned earlier. Also a very ugly white building that doesn't seem to appear to be in your current pictures (actually Parris, your right, its missing from my photos, but the building is actually still there - mc). Thanks Parris for your input!!!
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The base of the tower. You can tell this is old due to the age of the fencing and the look of the building. Each leg of the tower has massive amounts of monster cable running up it.
On May 9, 2003, Parris Wood writes in regards to the top most picture in this group: On the far right behind the blue propane
tank is what looks like an Cingular Wireless Ericsson TDMA RBS 884 Macro
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Various photos of the old tower base station, BTS's, power panels, and signs. Yes, yet another Crown Castle site! Parris Wood writes on May 9th 2003: (The first picture in this bunch): Congrats
that cabinet in the middle is a Cingular Interactive cabinets, not
to be confused with Cingular Wireless. CI is a mobile data (Third picture in this bunch): Way different than the ones they use in DC and North Virginia. While down here they do use the numbers the numbers (on the yellow sign) are usually prefixed by three letters of the switch they home to. For example there is a site call CHN 78, that means Chantilly #78 because the MTSO is in the Chantilly section of Fairfax Co. They have another one in Adelphia MD (for AJ sites which I don't get) and one in DC proper (for the WAS prefixed sites). (The 7th picture of the Sprint NOCC):
Ah hah! Here you can see the older site ID sticker where it says National
NOC instead of Sprint NOC or whatever from your previous site id sticker.
Also this sign shows you the 03XC buildout code. I would hazard a
wager that this was one of the 1st build out sites. Also the site
id sign
Thanks Parris for your invaluable input!! It's nice to learn new things when your scouting the hillsides for cell sites!!!
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THE MONOPOLE The new monopole base. It has a small building with two GPS antennas on it. The funny thing is if you look at the monopole base where the antenna coaxial cable is coming out, the cable does not run up the new monopole, but actually runs horizontally over to the adjacent old tower structure. The third picture shows the two GPS antennas. The last picture shows the power panel for this new monopole. You can see there's room for three right now, and the top one is in use. It has Nextel's name on it. So, my guess is that Nextel is moving from the old tower to the new monopole very soon, and there's room for growth. That coax cable in the first picture runs from the new monopole base to the old tower to support Nextel's existing antennas on the old tower, until they do a cut over sometime in the near future. The monopole has guy wires running up and down it to assist in the antenna installation.
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