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I'm kinda pissed. I have been doing nothing the past few weeks but waiting for this to happen, of course this is the weekend that I have a wedding I'm going to and have people in town. This site I saw this morning is the by the same company from my pics yesterday. Company by the name of New Tech, Simms in the name on most permits.. They seem to have a pretty good operation and plenty of equipment. They have pulled some more permits up in the Palm Harbor area and the reception for the wedding is in that area too, so I may be able to strategically plan the trip up there to pass a few sites to see if the panels are up yet on this sites. I imagine they are. I worked briefly with the owner of this company and he is a real shi* and get type of dude. I may find that all the panels are up on the sites where they have pulled permits.

 

Another thing. This would be the 2nd site with panels, and if I count the other roof top site that I'm pretty sure is with panels that makes 3 sites. Based on those 3 and the location I'm pretty sure this is going to be a pretty hopping spot for LTE. The furthest is not more than 5 miles with a tower with panels in between. Thanks to Sensorly its pretty easy to figure out the path this will take based on other users in other areas.

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Oh one other thing.. These panels are distinctive as hell. Once you see them there is no question you won't recognize then again.

 

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AT&T in my area runs a single panel with single RRU that could be mistaken but there are other things to pick out with it.

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And I have a second site where panels are up..sorry the pics are bad only have the EVO with me

 

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This looks absolutely legit NV to me. Excellent find. Keep your eyes to the skies!

 

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Kept Robert believe that.. This is turning into a part time job.. That I love of course

 

The painted tower SEEMS to be complete meaning I'm not seeing anything going on there with the cabinets or anything. I want to go back later and get some people pics with my real camera. I can get right on the tower with no problems and it's also the lowest site on it (less than 200' definitely) so I should be able to snap some good pics.

 

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Have some great photos of the tower dogs in Pinellas. One flashed the peace sign but nor sure I caught that. Its not far from where my wife works. Uses my 300mm lens.

 

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This might be a little better.

 

http://img402.images...21109120946.jpg

 

Sorry, but I don't think that is Sprint on the top there. It looks to me like Sprint is the second rack. There should only be 2 or three panels on a Sprint rack (per sector) unless you are in a extraordinarily densely populated area.

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I'll go back with a real camera and try again. All of the panels do look like on the top though. Is there another carrier that uses similar panels to those one?

 

I checked another tower close by too and there was one rack that looked like it had NV panels and normal panels.

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For Sprint towers that have had NV completed, look for one or two rather skinny panels, plus on large panel that has 3-4 RRUs mounted on the back of the panel.

 

I'm not sure which carrier that would be on the top of the tower in your picture.

 

Feech's image is a very good example of a completed NV tower:

avevavas.jpg

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Have some great photos of the tower dogs in Pinellas. One flashed the peace sign but nor sure I caught that. Its not far from where my wife works. Uses my 300mm lens.

 

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Here are the photos I took today in Pinellas. Both locations not far from each other.

 

http://www.rdcd.org/s4gru/PinellasTowerDogs_09NOV12.jpg

 

http://www.rdcd.org/s4gru/PinellasTowerDogs_09NOV12_HDR.jpg

 

http://www.rdcd.org/s4gru/Pinellas2_09NOV12.jpg

 

http://www.rdcd.org/s4gru/Pinellas3_09NOV12.jpg

 

http://www.rdcd.org/s4gru/Pinellas4_09NOV12.jpg

 

http://www.rdcd.org/s4gru/Pinellas5_09NOV12.jpg

 

I took a long motorcycle ride today which encompassed pretty much the outskirts of the Tampa market. I went from Riverview out to CR-39, when north up to Brooksville, then worked my way down US41, took 54 West, then road Alt-19 south from Tarpon Springs, then went through Pinellas, across the Skyway into Manatee County, then back up US41 to Riveview. I was most inspired by work going on at three sites I saw in Pinellas, two with workers on the ground, one with them in the air. To me, it looks like Pinellas will be the start of things. Guessing we'll see a lot come on all at one time.

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Here are the photos I took today in Pinellas. Both locations not far from each other.

 

http://www.rdcd.org/...ogs_09NOV12.jpg

 

http://www.rdcd.org/...09NOV12_HDR.jpg

 

http://www.rdcd.org/...as2_09NOV12.jpg

 

http://www.rdcd.org/...as3_09NOV12.jpg

 

http://www.rdcd.org/...as4_09NOV12.jpg

 

http://www.rdcd.org/...as5_09NOV12.jpg

 

I took a long motorcycle ride today which encompassed pretty much the outskirts of the Tampa market. I went from Riverview out to CR-39, when north up to Brooksville, then worked my way down US41, took 54 West, then road Alt-19 south from Tarpon Springs, then went through Pinellas, across the Skyway into Manatee County, then back up US41 to Riveview. I was most inspired by work going on at three sites I saw in Pinellas, two with workers on the ground, one with them in the air. To me, it looks like Pinellas will be the start of things. Guessing we'll see a lot come on all at one time.

 

Great field work, as always. Thanks for the report.

 

Robert

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