September 2003 article appearing in Boston.com regarding a lawsuit in North Andover over the placement of cell antennas:
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Located just West / South West of the Route 495 and Route 93 interchange is this group of towers on Woods Hill in Andover. The top photo shows an FM broadbast
tower (WKLB-FM The other two smaller towers look like non wireless phone installations. Probably lots of commercial, paging, emergency services, plus other microwave relay links. Parris Wood writes on 5/15/03: The tower on the far right was an Cingular Corp. microwave site, now dehorned. If not it was owned by Bell Atlantic, I'm leaning towards Cingular though. On March 4, 2004, Peter M. helped me identify that these sites are no in Dracust but are on the Tewksbury / Andover line.
http://www.necrat.com/wklb_pro.html (Thanks Mike F for the NECRAT link and Info!!!) |
Just about every carrier |
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Located just north on Rt 93 of the route 495 interchange is this monopole. I could not figure out how to get closer without allot of headaches. This picture was taken from near Fiske Road and the power lines on the Davis Deer Jump Reservation land. Definitely a PCS carrier, but undetermined as to which one. |
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WCCM WEGQ
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Just North East of the Rt 93 and 495 interchange is this old FM radio tower which has been here for as many years as I can remember (at least since 1984). In middle to late 1990's three PCS carriers saw the opportunity and mounted their antennas. I ran across the road to get to this site. It's located across from the Warren C. Deyermonder Memorial Field. The first two pictures show a profile of the tower. The 3rd and 4th pictures show a close up of the three PCS array antennas. The 5th picture shows one of the base buildings (for Cingular). The 6th picture shows the power meters (it also was not fenced in at all!). You can see Cingular to the far left, Omnipoint next (now T-Mobile), then the radio stations WCCM and WEGQ. There is another power meter for the BTS cabinets closer to them. The 7th picture is of the access door sign to the base building for Cingular. And last but not least, the last photo is of the BTS for Sprint PCS. The telephone pole next to the power meters had telltale signs of two (or more) fiber feeds plus some old copper feeds (no picture of that, sorry!). Parris Wood writes on 5/15/03: One of the two stations is an FM station. AM |
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2nd photo courtesy of Scott C. |
Just south of the 93 / 495 interchange on Rt 93 at exit 42, Dascomb Road, is this monopole. Total of 4 carriers present. |
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Pictures courtesy of Scott C. |
Downtown Andover, near the library, this building has Cingular on top of it. |
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Pictures courtesy of Scott C. |
Boston Hill in North Andover site. |
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Pictures courtesy of Scott C. |
Along Rt 114 in North Andover is this site. |
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www.necellularsites.net