What is this, Oppo?

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 01/02/2020 at 12:48 • Filed to: None

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These boxes with antennas are on various light poles in our neighborhood. There is one on the pole in front of my house. People on the neighborhood email group are becoming unhinged because they are convinced that it is some sort of gubmint spying device. 

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > ttyymmnn 01/02/2020 at 12:54

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That’s the chemtrail filtration box. It detects if chemtrail chemical has landed in your area and will filter it out of the atmosphere. But be careful, it doesn’t do anything about chemtrail that is already on the ground. Thankfully its only activated in the presence of fluoride so if you avoid government water, you’re fine. 

CB > ttyymmnn 01/02/2020 at 12:55

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Mind control devices that communicate with the fluoride they put in the water.

ttyymmnn > CB 01/02/2020 at 12:56

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Well, that would explain a lot.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > ttyymmnn 01/02/2020 at 12:56

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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 01/02/2020 at 12:57

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That is a device that Google uses to intercept fax transmissions and decode them so that Maps can know which roads to color red because traffic.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > ttyymmnn 01/02/2020 at 12:57

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It’s there to condition the response to the consumption of soy len t green.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > ttyymmnn 01/02/2020 at 12:57

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Shot spotter?

GLiddy > ttyymmnn 01/02/2020 at 12:58

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It seems they are signal collector/ relay units for electronic meters in your neighborhood.

https://slate.com/culture/2012/05/street-light-gizmos-what-are-they.html

ttyymmnn > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 01/02/2020 at 12:59

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That guy has had a few bad days in court lately. The schadenfreude is strong. Fuck that guy.

ttyymmnn > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 01/02/2020 at 13:00

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Hope not. I don’t live in the hood. 

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 01/02/2020 at 13:01

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It could be a micro- cell  repeater or a local signal booster for wireless utility meters. There was an internet company using these for local wireless internet too. 

ttyymmnn > GLiddy 01/02/2020 at 13:01

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That’s what I had found, and I posted that response to the group. Nobody was buying it. We still have guys who come by to read the gas and water meters. 

GLiddy > ttyymmnn 01/02/2020 at 13:03

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I guess you could always go shoot it with a shotgun and see who comes out to repair it.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > ttyymmnn 01/02/2020 at 13:11

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NOT surveillance... but “sniffers” to regulate the Chemtrail Vapors in your neighborhood.

EDITED:  Damn.  The Man With the Sauce beat me to it.  

jminer > ttyymmnn 01/02/2020 at 13:14

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Definitely not a camera (source - 50% of my work is with surveillance cameras).

It’s an antenna of some kind though for sure. Probably an extension of a government or utility mesh network. No idea what’s it’s used for, could be anythin g from utility meters (as others have suggested) to cameras to traffic sensors and everything in-between.

Around here though there are a lot of light pole mounted cameras “for traffic monitoring”.

Future Heap Owner > ttyymmnn 01/02/2020 at 13:21

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Don’t they know that the government only needs the surveillance device in your pocket?

user314 > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 01/02/2020 at 13:26

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user314 > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles 01/02/2020 at 13:31

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Nah man, you’ve got it all wrong. These are the boxes that tell Them if the chemtrails were being properly applied, so they know if They need to up the dosage or not. Stuff’s not cheap after all. 

ttyymmnn > GLiddy 01/02/2020 at 13:32

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Best answer so far.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > GLiddy 01/02/2020 at 13:33

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Murica

fintail > ttyymmnn 01/02/2020 at 13:35

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Texas, right?

ttyymmnn > jminer 01/02/2020 at 13:35

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Red light cameras have been outlawed in TX. Pretty sure it’s not a camera or other sort of neighborhood monitoring device. I am not concerned about it’s being nefarious at all.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > user314 01/02/2020 at 13:39

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Oh they have those too, but those sensors are in cell phones and tablets. It’s why they have face unlock on new phones - they can read by your facial expressions if you’re getting your proper dose of chemical. It used to be they had to see how you interacted with people on facebook. An d if you forgot to post the status where you said government types couldn’t steal your data, then they could go into your data and take it all for their number cruncher to see if you had enough or not. Thankfully, posting that status made them stop. Al so if you posted enough memes about the government, they’d be too afraid to come try to take your guns.

ttyymmnn > fintail 01/02/2020 at 13:39

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Yup.

fintail > ttyymmnn 01/02/2020 at 13:44

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Ha, nice. I suspect these “people” also lost their shit when they read about Jade Helm (likely on infowars etc).  Special place.

Michael > ttyymmnn 01/02/2020 at 14:01

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Is there a traffic light nearby?

Congestion sensor to detect backups?

Michael > ttyymmnn 01/02/2020 at 14:03

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Well, you can’t implement the new infrastructure until all the meters and collection points have been installed...  They may have put on the collection units first, and are working on outfitting the meters next

WilliamsSW > GLiddy 01/02/2020 at 14:15

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User name checks out  

OPPOsaurus WRX > ttyymmnn 01/02/2020 at 14:16

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i would love to slap that guy around for an hour or few days

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > ttyymmnn 01/02/2020 at 14:22

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You should make this joke in that email group and see how long it takes for someone to follow through.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Future Heap Owner 01/02/2020 at 14:23

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That's the CIA. Local government has to do it on a lower budget, so they go this route. :P

facw > ttyymmnn 01/02/2020 at 14:39

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And I’m glad. Your yellows are a lot longer than the northeast and it led to some bad decisions when I first moved down there.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 01/02/2020 at 14:40

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That looks like an antenna and datalogger, probably for wireless reporting of utility meters. I’d guess a utility either has recently, or will soon, install transmitters on folks’  meters.  The days of an employee reading individual meters are going away.  This kind of radio telemetry is pretty cheap and easy when you have a power source like lights poles all over the place.  

user314 > GLiddy 01/02/2020 at 14:41

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Bat shit crazy but logical at the same time . I love it.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > GLiddy 01/02/2020 at 14:48

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Ha! That’s actually an issue in my job. People some times use our weather stations for target practice in semi-remote areas, and then I have to go fix them.

ranwhenparked > ttyymmnn 01/02/2020 at 14:50

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Its what the CIA uses to  suppress knowledge of the 4/16 harmonic cube divinity

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > ttyymmnn 01/02/2020 at 15:53

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Has your area just been upgraded to 5G LTE?

Ultra-high-frequency cell data networks require lots of high density access point mesh networks, and utility poles tend to be one of the places that they are mounted.

Elevation, ready access to hard networks and power.

It appears to be drawing power of the photocell on top of the street light that switches it on at dusk.

I suppose otherwise it could be some sort of traffic infrastructure analytics gathering sensor to track traffic flow changes, or municipal communications relay for police, fire, and EMS...

It appears to be a radio device, rather than camera, whatever it is for.

ttyymmnn > fintail 01/02/2020 at 16:45

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I live in Austin, one of the few islands of blue in an otherwise redder than red state.

ttyymmnn > Michael 01/02/2020 at 16:46

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No traffic light nearby. 

ttyymmnn > Michael 01/02/2020 at 16:47

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Good point. The one in front of my house has been there for a few years though.

ttyymmnn > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 01/02/2020 at 16:48

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One guy in the group has already threatened to shoot down any drones he sees near his house.

ttyymmnn > ranwhenparked 01/02/2020 at 16:51

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Why 4/16? Why not 1/4?

fintail > ttyymmnn 01/02/2020 at 17:57

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Maybe your neighborhood is just special, usually it isn’t the blue wingnuts who get antsy about this kind of thing :)

ranwhenparked > ttyymmnn 01/02/2020 at 18:43

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4/16 makes more sense

bubblestheturtle > ttyymmnn 01/02/2020 at 18:54

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5G antenna?

BaconSandwich is tasty. > ttyymmnn 01/02/2020 at 20:05

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Given you are a musician, I'm surprised you didn't say 4/4. :P

ttyymmnn > BaconSandwich is tasty. 01/02/2020 at 20:16

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I was just reducing the fraction.