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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Nice rigs they’ve set up. Damned shame they’re getting stolen.
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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.
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
Enemy prepping for Red Dawn.
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.
How would these be connected to that?
It might be a government project that those yahoos are not supposed to investigate. They are really obsessed with the little towers. LOL
It sits directly on the northern east-west internet feeder line.
I’m sure that that is just a accident. /sar
Pinging William of barsoom to bigbob’s post:
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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.
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If there is to be a nuclear exchange between nations, better that place than a population center.
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:
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.
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.
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.
You beat me to it.
If on public property couldn’t you walk off with the components
It looks to be bolted to a granite boulder.🤔
Someone is preparing for the failure of our Republic. Sounds like they are setting up for HAM repeaters.
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