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Nashua Rt 111 Fake Pine Tree Photo 1
Original tree from 2003 without any antennas

With just NEXTEL at the top

With T-Mobile Added to the 3rd teir (2nd teir empty)

With Verzion and Sprint PCS present (photos added 8/15/07)

Nashua EZ Mini Fake Pine Tree Tower Photo 8

Some older photos of the tower, BTS, shelters, and power panel

Approx Latitude: 42.72201
Approx Longitude: -71.53378

A NICE FAKE PINE TREE

Located on Rt 111 about 1/2 mile from the Hollis town line at the EZ Storage facility is this pine tree monopole. Originally erected in 2001.

As of late August 2003, this tower WAS REMOVED and then:

UPDATE October 4, 2004: This monopole is GOING BACK UP with Nextel as the first leasee. Thanks to an update from the Nashua Planning Department for this news !!!

UPDATE April 26, 2005: This monopole has been put back up, and it appears to be a bit taller than the previous monopole. NEXTEL is the top panel array

UPDATE June 17, 2005: NEXTEL service is said to not be live.

UPDATE September 20, 2005: NEXTEL service is now LIVE. (Thanks to Jon S. for this information).

UPDATE November 27, 2006 : T-Mobile is now here and live.

Photo #1 at top left is the tower with just the NEXTEL antenna array present.
Photos 2 through 7 are the tower with the T-Mobile antenna array below the NEXTEL antenna panels.

Photos 8 and 9 show NEXTEL & Sprint on the top row (the right most antenna panel is Sprint), 2nd teir is Verizon Wireles with 1XRTT and EV-DO Panels, and the 3rd teir is T-Mobile.

The last threee photos show the T-Mobile BTS cabinet, the tower base with the monster coax cables running out, the NEXTEL/Sprint shelter in the background and power panels in foreground, and the last photo is a close up of the power panels showing the NEXTEL power meter on the left and T-Mobile on the right.

Note that all of the antenna panels for all carriers have been painted green to blend in with the pine tree color.

Photos 2 through 7 were taken with an LG VX 8300 phone camera, hence the resolution and clarity is not as good as can be!

UPDATE May 11 & 14, 2007: A 3rd wireless carrier is now co-located on this tower.

It has been confirmed to be Verizon Wireless with both 1XRTT and EV-DO antenna panels.

As of June 4, 2007-2008 it has been confirmed that the 1XRTT Voice service is enabled. EV-DO is not yet enabled.

UPDATE July 7, 2007: EV-DO Rev A data service is now LIVE on this site.

UPDATE August 15, 2007: Sprint PCS is now here too. One of the 4 NEXTEL antennas was replaced with a Sprint PCS antenna panel. Unknown if service is yet live or not.

Nashua Cell Tower	Location and Description	Carriers
	Columbia Circle in the North End of Nashua Christopher B. from Nashua sent an email notifying me of this site Thank You Chris !!! The photos were taken on June 28, 2005. This short tower is located in the small cul-de-sac of Columbia Circle in Nashua - boardering Greeley Park. A local resident told me that Pennichuck Waterworks has a 20 year lease on the tower. It was a nice surprise to find Sprint PCS here, plus many commercial antennas, most likely for Pennichuck Water works. Some Site Data Constructed in October 1984 SBA Site ID: NH07350-A FCC ASR Registration #: 1014034 Location: Nashua, NH County: Hillsborough MTA: Boston-Providence BTA: Manchester-Nashua-Concord, NH Latitude: 42° 46' 34.00" Longitude: -71° 28' 19.00" Tower Height ASL: 106' Tower Height: 28.6'	Sprint PCS Pennichuck Water Works Repeater(s) Plus more... ?
	Approx. Latitude: 42.76365 Approx. Longitude: -71.44589 STEALTH FLAG POLE Located on the Nashua side of the Merrimack River along Rt 111 is this tall flagpole. Truly a stealth cell tower. Not 100% sure on who's there, but from driving by and looking at the BTS equipment bays, the hunch is that it's Cingular (formerly AT&T Wireless).	Cingular?
	Approx. Latitude: 42.76011 Approx Longitude: -71.49197 UPDATED 02/07/05 Route 3 at Exit 6 (Broad Street), across Rt. from the Nashua Mall. This tower was constructed sometime in the 1999 timeframe and originally hosted OmniPoint (a.k.a VoiceStream/T-Mobile). The top most array is T-Mobile and it's in a quad faced alignment (four array sides, with the Southern, Western, and Northern faces in use). The 2nd and third tiers are probably both PCS carriers (Cingular and Unicel). Sometime in late 2004, a strange looking antenna was added between the top PCS array platform and the 2nd teir. I have no idea what this is for. Anyone know? The 2nd thru 4th photos show this new addition. Parris Wood's input: Triton PCS has a monopole using that type of platform. More than likely the antenna are angled to form a triangle. Four sides would be highly unlikely. Also I don't know of any PCS carriers who use four antenna per face. Maybe three (classic Cingular/high traffic VoiceStream or PrimeCo sites), most commonly two and more recently one antenna per face.	T-Mobile Cingular (GSM) Unicel -or- NextWave PCS
	Approx Latitude: 42.74333, Approx Longitude: -71.49444 Verizon EV-DO Update August 2006 Route 3 at Exit 5 (Rt 111) This tower was constructed sometime in the middle to late 1990's. Originally owned by US Cellular, it now hosts 5 carriers, including Verizon Wireless. Both pictures are of the same monopole. The bottom picture was taken with the monopole in the foreground and, yes, those are a AM radio station broadcast tower in the background a ways away (see detailed pictures for a closeup of the detuning skirt used by this monopole as well as a link to how and why detuning is necessary) Click here for detailed pictures of this site	Verizon Wireless (with EV-DO) U.S. Cellular Nextel Sprint PCS Cingular (TDMA & GSM)
	Approx Latitude: 42.74125 Approx Longitude: -71.45386 Visible from Route 3 in the "S" turns near south Nashua, on the Rivier College Campus at 39 orchard Ave. are these two large towers. The larger tower has been in existence since the mid 1990's. The smaller tower (to the right) was constructed later. HELP NEEDED IDENTIFYING WHICH ANTENNAS ARE FOR WHICH CARRIERS Input from Parris Wood regarding picture #2 in this series: I don't know about the top but the second carrier is Sprint PCS or Omnipoint then there is some sort of omnidirectional antenna (paging?), most likely Cingular Wireless and probably Nextel. If you can get to the bottom of the site you could literally (with binoculars) follow the cable from the antenna down to the cabinets/shelters. I've done this several times to get the order right =] Click the photos to enlarge. If the photo does not enlarge, please see the Photo Gallery page to view them.	U.S. Cellular Verizon Wireless Nextel Cingular Sprint PCS T-Mobile
Hard to see, but is a photo when only T-Mob and Sprint were present.	Approx Latitude: 42.70841 Approx Longitude: -71.44839 UPDATED 02/07/05 Located on Spit Brook Road heading East just off Rt 3, in the same building complex as Sanders are THREE antenna arrays on top of the building. One is T-Mobile another is Sprint PCS. Added in late 2004 was Nextel. These arrays serve the northern part of Daniel Webster Hwy as well as west of Rt 3 and Exit 1 (like the Sheraton Tara Hotel and beyond). Only two carriers are present in the top shot. The Nextel array is present in the 2nd photo. Click the photos to enlarge. If the photo does not enlarge, please see the Photo Gallery to view it.	T-Mobile Sprint PCS Nextel
	Latitude: 42° 42' 5.00" Longitude: 71° 26' 36.00" Tower Height: 168 Elevation (AMSL): 207 Located between Spitbrook Road (the south most Pheasant Lane Mall entrance) and Rt 3 at exit 36 (opposite the Sams Club Parking Lot), this tower was erected in mid 1990's. This monopole is only a couple of hundred yards from the Massachusetts border. In August 2006, Rick P of NH writes: I stopped by the tower by exit 36. The sign by the main gate had BAM on it, and the 1st building said Verizon Wireless on the door. The 2nd building was not marked, & the 3rd provider had the smaller outdoor eqiupment. There were 3 meters of which only one was marked, and it said Telecorp. This site is in the back of Costco's parking lot, and this site is confirmed to be owned by Cingular.	BAM (Verizon Wireless) Telecorp (a.k.a. AT&T Wireless, now Cingular Blue) ????
Photos Wanted!	Approx Latitude: 42.72806 Approx Longitude: -71.51056 October 4, 2004 Plans are in place to add US Cellular to the existing tower at the 4 Hills Landfill on 840 West Hollis Street	Sprint PCS

Nashua Area Continued...

Rt 101 / Amherst Street Location and Description

WELL DISGUISED

Also in Trafalgar Square, mounted on the sides of the Crown Plaza Hotel is this highly-directionalized array.

Arrays are mounted facing: Southwest (the second picture is of that array), north, and southeast (not pictured).

This array has been here for over 8 years.

They did a good job making this one as obscured as possible.

Input from Parris Wood, he states:

Looks like Cellular. Antenna are too squat
to be PCS. Also first PCS launch was in 96 I think so that site predates the
creation of Omnipoint, VoiceStream and Sprint PCS.

According to Rick P. from August 16, 2006, he says in an email:

Mike,I used to work for Verizon Wireless & took a ride yesterday. Crown Plaza is all Verizon (I drove in back of the motel and you can see a Verizon room with all the cables going in).
There are also newly installed EV-DO panels.

The tower near by does not have Verizon on it any more. (exit 8)

I was also told by the owners of the glass building at 20 Trafalgar
(next door) that they have Cingular on top of the building.

Rick

Downtown Nashua Area...

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Downtown Location and Description

Located adjacent to the ClockTower apartments, the Nashua Manufacturing Company building hosts a couple or arrays of different types. It's hard to tell if there is more than just 2 carriers here as the antenna types are different on each face/rooftop of the building.

The first two pictures where taken from the Pine Street side (west) of the Nashua Mfg Building (which also has a sign on it for Storage USA Self Storage). I believe the white antennas are U.S. Cellular. The 3 antennas which are pained to match the color variations of the building, are probably for a PCS carrier. I like the color tones!

If you look at the 2nd picture closely, you can see the cable wire type that is run to these antennas. It looks quite thin and flimsy.

The third and fourth pictures are of the North most side of the building, taken from the Clocktower apartment parking lot. You can see the rooftop array (again, probably U.S. Cellular, as a field test mode years ago indicated to me), and a PCS antenna array (4 of them, implying anti-multipathing, like for Cingular).

There are also some other antennas on top of the building that are probably not wireless phone carriers. Most likely they are for some commercial purpose, but the interesting thing is that there are three in a row lined up in parallel on the buildings roof line edge.

Parris Wood writes:

The omnidirectional antenna would appear to be a paging installation (notice the channel master dish on the left for receiving pages from a satellite). The GPS antenna on the omnidirectional antenna is for the paging
carrier. Its so the transmitter stays in sync with the other area transmitter and does not send out a page late (causing the customer to receive the same page twice). Top most antenna are Cingular Wireless (it would seem).

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STADIUM LIGHTS

Mounted on the light poles for Nashua's Holman Stadium are two PCS arrays, one on each pole. These are relatively new (1999 and later) after the city of Nashua remodeled Holman Stadium.

You don't notice them unless you looking for them, but once you see them you cant miss 'em. The lights for the stadium are below each antenna array.

The top two pictures are of one array on the north most pole. It has three 120 degree separated sides like most normal cell antenna arrays.

The bottom two pictures show the second array on the south most pole (closest to Amherst Street). This array is only two sided, with the south east most face absent. This is the face that is directed towards downtown Nashua. It's a good example of how some PCS carriers cut corners for best RF saturation.

The T-Mobile base shelter has an FCC ASR registration number on the door of 1060731.

Located on the roof top of St. Joseph's hospital halfway between Rt 3 and downtown Nashua on Kinsley Street (Exit 5, Rt 111) is this T-Mobile antenna array. This array received an upgrade to new antennas (in mid 2004) from the old style they used to have.

Field tests are 100% conclusive that this array is for T-Mobile. Even in the basement of St Joes, years ago, T-Mobile (then Omnipoint) phones still worked while all other carriers did not.

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Nashua Cell Tower	Rt 101 / Amherst Street Location and Description	Carriers
	Located in Trafalgar Square on Amherst Street just West of Exit 7 and Exit 8 is this monopole with three carriers. This was constructed in the middle 1990's	US Cellular Nextel ? Most likely T-Mobile or Spint
	Also in Trafalgar Square on top of the big glass office building (next to the Crown Plaza Hotel) at 20 Trafalgar, are two arrays, one white and the other black. You'd figure they would color coordinate the both of them to be less noticeable?!? The white array has been there for a number of years, the black ones were added just a few years back.	Cingular ? Most likely T-Mobile or Spint
	WELL DISGUISED Also in Trafalgar Square, mounted on the sides of the Crown Plaza Hotel is this highly-directionalized array. Arrays are mounted facing: Southwest (the second picture is of that array), north, and southeast (not pictured). This array has been here for over 8 years. They did a good job making this one as obscured as possible. Input from Parris Wood, he states: Looks like Cellular. Antenna are too squat to be PCS. Also first PCS launch was in 96 I think so that site predates the creation of Omnipoint, VoiceStream and Sprint PCS. According to Rick P. from August 16, 2006, he says in an email: Mike,I used to work for Verizon Wireless & took a ride yesterday. Crown Plaza is all Verizon (I drove in back of the motel and you can see a Verizon room with all the cables going in). There are also newly installed EV-DO panels. The tower near by does not have Verizon on it any more. (exit 8) I was also told by the owners of the glass building at 20 Trafalgar (next door) that they have Cingular on top of the building. Rick	Verizon Wireless (with EV-DO)
	Located on Amherst Street about a mile west of Trafalgar Square, right behind the Nashua Technical College is this array of four carriers.	T-Mobile Sprint PCS Cingular Verizon

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