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Why are antennas popping up all over the foothills? Salt Lake City seeks to solve mystery
KSLtv ^ | 1-4-23 | MICHAEL LOCKLEAR

Posted on 01/07/2023 6:17:28 PM PST by dynachrome

On Wednesday, Salt Lake City public lands officials hiked for hours up a snowy trail to remove a mysterious device – one that’s popping up all over the foothills.

It consists of a locked battery box, a solar panel, and an antenna, according to Tyler Fonarow, the city’s recreational trails manager.

“These towers have been bolted into different peaks and summits and ridges around the foothills,” Fonarow explained, “and it started with one or two, and now it might be as much as a dozen.”

The first ones appeared about a year ago, but Fonarow said many more were found in the past few months. The small towers don’t have permits, and it’s unclear who’s installing them.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: antennas; hamradio; meshnetwork; mystery; saltlakecity; utah
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To: usconservative

Nice rigs they’ve set up. Damned shame they’re getting stolen.

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41 posted on 01/07/2023 7:40:32 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Lurker
Yep, and those 33cm rigs, aren't cheap along with the batteries and higher efficiency solar panels they're using. That's probably $2k+ of hardware sitting up there.

Then again, whoever did it should've known better that eventually they'd be discovered sitting on public land without a permit and get removed. That's the risk they took and probably knew it.

42 posted on 01/07/2023 7:43:32 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Robert DeLong


43 posted on 01/07/2023 7:57:24 PM PST by Waverunner
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To: Pollard

I have a number of friends who have set up repeaters and mesh networks to the point they can operate/communicate with dozens of people spread over several miles easily even if internet goes down

I’ve been thinking about doing the same just haven’t gotten around to it


44 posted on 01/07/2023 8:01:41 PM PST by Manuel OKelley
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To: dynachrome

Enemy prepping for Red Dawn.


45 posted on 01/07/2023 8:05:25 PM PST by Revel
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To: dynachrome

They are likely environmental monitoring devices that collect temperature, pressure, and atmospheric data and relay it to satellites for research. Several commercial companies make these devices, but they should be marked with manufacturing information and serial numbers unless this is a DIY design.


46 posted on 01/07/2023 8:06:32 PM PST by Dave Wright (i)
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To: thecodont

How would these be connected to that?


47 posted on 01/07/2023 8:07:53 PM PST by GOPJ ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ Gumballs: Immigrants by the numbers.)
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To: Paladin2

It might be a government project that those yahoos are not supposed to investigate. They are really obsessed with the little towers. LOL


48 posted on 01/07/2023 8:10:58 PM PST by healy61
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

It sits directly on the northern east-west internet feeder line.
I’m sure that that is just a accident. /sar


49 posted on 01/07/2023 8:17:26 PM PST by Zathras
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To: bigbob; William of Barsoom

Pinging William of barsoom to bigbob’s post:

bigbob wrote:


Whoever is putting them up either has an FCC license and permission from the landowner (unless maybe they’are all on public land?) Each node looks to have a value of several hundred to several thousand dollars and that means there’s nearly zero chance a bunch of hams or other hobbyists are putting that kind of coin out of their own pockets knowing there’s a high probability they’ll be confiscated.

Pirate radio operators build $50 transmitters (aka the “grenade”) that they can afford to walk away from if someone finds it.


50 posted on 01/07/2023 8:23:56 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((the more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

If there is to be a nuclear exchange between nations, better that place than a population center.


51 posted on 01/07/2023 8:27:17 PM PST by Glad2bnuts ("None of the people I know who didn't take take the Jab regrets their decision" ZERO)
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To: texas booster; All

Think you are on to something....opening the locked battery box and seeing what electronics/routers, etc. are inside will tell the tale. Could very well be someone trying to extend the range of the “Helium Network” near SLC:

https://explorer.helium.com

https://www.helium.com

https://www.helium.com/mine


52 posted on 01/07/2023 8:31:14 PM PST by Drago
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To: Paladin2
“...a locked battery box, a solar panel, and an antenna...”
No electronics?
No outgoing signals?

That's what I was wondering till I got to the end of the article to find out they haven't opened the battery boxes yet.
53 posted on 01/07/2023 8:35:12 PM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: Robert DeLong

Looks like a Microwave Directional Flat Panel Antennas for point-to-point comms, 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz.
Looks like the solar array took a direct hit from a huge hailstone or somebody maliciously hitting it with a rock.
Why the white top 1/3 of the pole? Why the excess mast height?
Pole is embedded in concrete. Must have taken several 40 or 50 pound bags of concrete plus a lot of water to mix the concrete. Not an easy task. The soil is probably very thin there and you hit bedrock quickly. Not easy to embed a steel pole in bedrock.
Guy wires are attached to bolts embedded in rock. That required drilling holes and epoxying bolts in.
Odd there are no markings or instructions on the box.


54 posted on 01/07/2023 9:04:41 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker)
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To: Dave Wright

I don’t see any environmental or weather monitoring sensors. Just the omnidirectional white mast antenna and the directional flat panel antenna which suggest it is an RF repeater station.


55 posted on 01/07/2023 9:12:19 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker)
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To: dynachrome

Might think about sending someone that understands this sort of tech out to check it out, rather than breathless presstitutes.

It is not rocket science, other than to the iFag generation.


56 posted on 01/07/2023 9:16:50 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: bigbob

You beat me to it.


57 posted on 01/07/2023 9:18:12 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: WildHighlander57

If on public property couldn’t you walk off with the components


58 posted on 01/07/2023 9:21:34 PM PST by bboise
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

It looks to be bolted to a granite boulder.🤔


59 posted on 01/08/2023 2:36:01 AM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: dynachrome

Someone is preparing for the failure of our Republic. Sounds like they are setting up for HAM repeaters.


60 posted on 01/08/2023 2:41:01 AM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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