Time for a new Tower Hunting Competition? (JFB?)

Shores, thanks for the kind words!

I have had great fun finding these cool sites, and I'm lucky to live the State of Camoufornia (hey, if Arnold can fracture the state name, so can I) where there are so many creative and demanding planners and planning commissioners.

As it happens, next Tuesday (11/1) I'll be giving a lecture to the California Chapter of the American Planning Association at its Yosemite annual meeting. I'll be showing a number of slides that I've posted here, and many more from CellularPCS, too. I intend to record the lecture and post it at my main website, KramerFirm.com. When it's up I'll let the gang here know so you can see how talk about the key wireless issues facing government planners. Of course I'll take my camera will me for the drive from Modesto Airport to Yosemite Valley and back.

As for the idea of a new contest, I recommend that any new competition still be on numbers-uploaded basis. That would help to fill out the gallery with even more sites, rather than a relatively few number of interesting sites.

I promise I won't enter, because with 600 photos on line, and several thousand off line, it would be no contest...but maybe I could buy a WA mug for my collection?? :biggrin:

Best,

Jonathan

 

I don't think I could spend the time required to win, but it would be fun.

 

I'm one of the few that have both styles of WA mugs. One from circa 2001 (no longer available I don't think) and the more recent one.

 

well aren't you special....

 

I was thinking - maybe make it more challenging, and maybe more people would participate. Not who can post the most pics, but who can photograph the coolest stealth site (not already in the database). I think more would participate, because you could win with one really good entry.

-Just a thought, Jay

 

Why don't we have a contest for pictures of people using their cellphones. Or better yet, people having trouble getting a signal to use their cellphones.

 

Either of those are too easy. Just follow a Nextel user around for a few minutes and you'll see someone looking for service.

 

Jay, that is an excellent idea except for us under priviledged folks in the less urban areas who don't have stealth sites.

 

Exactly.

The only "hidden" sites that I know of already have pictures taken of them (with my camera of course).

 

How about we do something along the lines of the cameraphone contest. Limited to 1 submission per user and vote on "most unique" cell site. For other months we could do "best hidden", "most obvious", "worst overuse of structure (water tower, building)", etc.

 

I like this idea. I know I have a few sites that could be in the running for that!

 

I second that.

Good idea, wgray.

 

Funny Jay! But I'm doing my best to fix it!

 

Ah ha! Chuikov begins to de-cloak! j

 

Ooops. Sorry.

Anyway, I'm back from London with some great shots of sites from central London out to Bath. I'll start posting soon. Dead tired.

j

 

You guys are killing me!

I'll completely come clean - I've worked for Verizon, Nextel, T-Mobile, AWS, Cingular, Sprint, US Cellular - I think that's it - sometimes simutaneously - I'm a contractor!

As far as the pictures are concerned, I can't think of any way to judge fairly. Maybe a nice - please everyone thing like the grammys.

Most original stealth
Most quantity
Most technologically informative
Most slanted to one carrier
etc.

It's good to see the interest in posting pictures. They provide good ideas for site development people like myself.

 

Now don't you feel better? :browani:

j

 

I'm actually something of a Luddite (by this board's standards), but I gotta make a living.