WHICH ONE OF THESE IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS?; HIDING OF TRANSCEIVERS AN ART FORM WITH A HIGH-TECH TOUCH.Byline: Teresa Jimenez Daily News Staff Writer Maybe you've seen the fake trees along roadsides and been amused a·muse tr.v. a·mused, a·mus·ing, a·mus·es 1. To occupy in an agreeable, pleasing, or entertaining fashion. 2. . Maybe you've seen them and haven't even known it. Companies such as Pacific Bell Mobile Services hide transceiver (TRANSmitter reCEIVER) An electronic device or circuit that transmits and receives analog or digital signals. It comes in many forms; for example, a transponder on a satellite, a network adapter in the computer or the circuits in a cellphone. stations in artificial palm or pine trees, on fake telephone or street-light poles, even on church steeples and high rooftops. Santa Clarita's Planning Commission Noun 1. planning commission - a commission delegated to propose plans for future activities and developments commission, committee - a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle has decided it wants a fake light fixture for the area of Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling near Via Princessa. Strange? Not to those familiar with the process. The hidden transceivers are just part of this high-tech age. ``The public says they don't want these ugly things Ugly Things is a music magazine established in 1983, based in La Mesa, CA. Editor is Mike Stax, born 1962, England. It covers mainly 1960s Beat, Garage rock, and Psychedelic music ("Wild Sounds From Past Dimensions"). hanging around,'' planning said Commissioner Louis Brathwaite, referring to the transceivers. Pacific Bell Mobile Services presented some samples to the commissioners at a meeting this week. ``It's good to show them that there are things other than concrete poles,'' said Jeff Hogan hogan Dwelling of the Navajo Indians of Arizona and New Mexico. The hogan is roughly circular and constructed usually of logs, which are stepped in gradually to create a domed roof. , a city assistant planner. ``They can be screened to look like anything.'' But the commissioners had a hard time picturing a fake tree along a mostly industrial stretch of road. And Brathwaite said some of the fake trees can be pretty scary-looking - like a tree with a big light on top. ``The pictures give the appearance of a wild-looking thing,'' Brathwaite said. ``It kind of looks like a tree, but with a thing stuck on top.'' Still, fellow Commissioner Ralph Killmeyer said people have driven past plenty of the transceivers and probably haven't noticed. Hogan said Santa Clarita's transceivers have been nicely hidden on top of water towers. Some cities have installed fake towers just to hide the high-tech gizmos. But a fake tree is on its way to the area, Hogan said. A ``mono-pine'' that should match the surroundings has been approved for the Castaic Lake Castaic Lake is a lake on Castaic Creek formed by Castaic Dam, in northwestern Los Angeles County, California, near the town of Castaic. The 323,700 acre foot lake (399,000,000 m³) is the terminus of the West Branch of the California Aqueduct, though some comes from the 154 mi² Water Agency property in Saugus. That's why the light post won out as the transceiver camouflage camouflage (kăm`əfläzh), in warfare, the disguising of objects with artificial aids, especially for the purpose of making them blend into their surroundings or of deceiving the observer as to the location of strategic points. for Sierra Highway, Killmeyer said. ``The staff said the area would change in the future, but right now, it would be noticeable,'' he said. ``And the pictures (of the sample fake trees) weren't too good. They looked like a pole going up with some branches.'' CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1--2--Color) In this computer-enhanced photograph, one of the palm trees is a fake that serves to disguise a transceiver for cellular telephone service, making it blend into its surroundings. Pacific Bell Mobile Services |
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