Some interesting boxes have been appearing on street lights in my area.
Anybody know what they are?
http://www.repeater-builder.com/wa6ilq/whatsthis.html
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Mike WA6ILQ
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Probably local PD in-car laptops WAN. A city near me does it that way -
always mounted on a street light. Not sure about the antenna, though.
Chuck
WB2EDV
Mike Morris wrote:
Some interesting boxes have been appearing on street lights in my area.
Anybody know what they are?
Out here they mount boxes on the wooden utility poles
that have three antennas. These seem to be some kind
of electric meter reading equipment. Rather than drive
around and read each meter manually, they've replaced
the meters with ones that are capable of transmitting
on some (probably) UHF
Don't know what it is, but it may be totally unrelated to the streetlight.
Streetlights make a convenient way of obtaining power for devices.
Joe
Mike Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some interesting boxes have been appearing on street lights in my area.
Anybody know what they are?
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Some interesting boxes have been appearing on street lights in my area.
Anybody know what they are?
http://www.repeater-builder.com/wa6ilq/whatsthis.html
(two photos totalling about 175KB)
Mike WA6ILQ
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Neil
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Some interesting boxes have been appearing on street lights in my
area
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Some interesting boxes have been appearing on street lights in my area.
Anybody know what they are?
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It may be a traffic preemption receiver for public safety vehicles
(police and fire) to be able to pass through an upcoming intersection
on a green light as opposed to approaching a red and having to
negotiate cross traffic.
Dan
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On Apr 1, 2006, at 4:38 AM, Mike Morris wrote:
Some
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Some interesting boxes have been appearing on street lights in my area.
Anybody know what
At 4/1/2006 01:38, you wrote:
Some interesting boxes have been appearing on street lights in my area.
Anybody know what they are?
http://www.repeater-builder.com/wa6ilq/whatsthis.html
(two photos totalling about 175KB)
Mike WA6ILQ
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Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Way OT, but a question...
It may be a traffic preemption receiver for public safety vehicles
(police and fire) to be able to pass through an upcoming intersection
on a green light as opposed to approaching a red and having to
negotiate cross traffic
At 08:21 AM 4/1/2006 -0800, you wrote:
That thought crossed my mind also, but it still looks like something
somebody built in their garage.
---You mean it's RCA? g
Ken
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President and CTO - Arcom Communications
Makers
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Some interesting boxes have been appearing on street lights in my area.
Anybody know what they are?
http://www.repeater-builder.com/wa6ilq/whatsthis.html
(two
We have those around my house.. Its ricochet...
They are dead in texas but I heard they are alive and well in CA.
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Some interesting boxes have been appearing on street lights in my area.
Anybody know what they are?
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At 4/1/2006 01:38, you wrote:Some interesting boxes
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Good morning.
Is it possible that it is for AVL? Automatic Vehicle Location for transit
busses, or law enforcement?
Just a thought, Butch, KE7FEL
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Eric,
Do you have the manufacturer
to
prosecute.
73, Eric Lemmon WB6FLY
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Chuck,
It's
Comes up fine, here, even on my slow dialup connection. Or are you just April
Fooling us, Neil?
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This page cannot
APRS units... it gives -those- folks something to watch :-)
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Some interesting boxes have been
Hey keep it quiet those are for that mind control that there coming out
with. also they are for reading those rfid tags they are putting on
everything and will be injecting under your skin in the future you must
live in one of the test areas. They also are there to read your cars
computer so that
Larry ... on a dialup?
Neil
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Comes up fine, here, even on my slow dialup connection
These are Merticom (now called Cedllnet ) radios that
utilities use to automate there distribution systems. Also for automated
meter reading. They work in the 902 to 928 Mhz band and are spread
spectrum frequency hopping. In some parts of the country (So Cal) there
are thousands of these
Thinking about it, it may be part of the Ricochet system. Look at:
http://www.ricochet.net/shared/docs/how_it_works.pdf
Joe
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The radios in the pictures and Ricochet were originally
made by the same company, Metricom. This company was started by Southern
California Edison.Metriconmade both radio systems, that
werethe Ricochet and the Utilinetradios systems.They
sold off the utilinet radios and thatradio system
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Larry ... on a dialup?
Neil
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Comes up
Jay Urish wrote:
We have those around my house.. Its ricochet...
They are dead in texas but I heard they are alive and well in CA.
Alive and well in Denver also - they got a sweetheart deal with the
Denver PD to do mobile data for Public Safety. Then they sell the
excess bandwidth to the
At 07:58 AM 04/01/06, you wrote:
I'd agree on the install -- hack job.
Mike, who is the electric utility?
Chuck
WB2EDV
Southern Calif Edison
Mike
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Nearest stoplight to this box is several light poles away. And I know
that the locals aren't using any preemption system.
Mike
At 08:05 AM 04/01/06, you wrote:
It may be a traffic preemption receiver for public safety vehicles
(police and fire) to be able to pass through an upcoming
OK, sounds like an investor-owned utility as opposed to a municipal
utility. If it were municipal, I'd have contacted them. Since it's not,
I won't, but you should. Call and ask for meter and test and see if
it's their equipment.
It may be someone else whose leasing space there. If so,
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