Does anyone know what this is?

[mes5464]

We live in the country and so we pay for a street light in our yard. Now this thing has appeared.

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[JohnnyL]

Is that your "private"/ "personal" streetlamp, or the county put it in and runs it? (I'm assuming you have ownership because you pay for it?)

[Sunain]

Looks like a cell / wifi microstation. Many areas have been adding smaller boxes like these instead of big towers. Use a cellphone to see if signal strength is higher than normal or a new wifi SSID is being broadcast.

[EmmaLee]

Could be a different flavor of 5G, maybe from a different company. Each company has its own 5G equipment, from what I've heard.

[FoxMammaWisdom]

Looks like an invasive nefarious species. Shoot it down.

[Subcomandante]

Some type of transmitter...

[mes5464]

Is that your "private"/ "personal" streetlamp, or the county put it in and runs it? (I'm assuming you have ownership because you pay for it?)

This is a pole on my private property, put there decades ago at my parents request and now paid for by me.

There is absolutely an antenna coming out of the bottom. It also looks directional and is pointed east.

[Trucker]

I couldn't find anything using google images, but you might want to try it yourself. I zoomed in on just the transmitter:

https://lens.google.com/search?p=AfVzNa ... 0sbnVsbF0=

[gkearney]

It took me a while to figure it out but the antenna is the key. I’m willing to bet it’s a long range Wi-Fi repeater. I’m also willing to be your electric utility is using it to collect usage data from so called smart meters in your area. Give the a call send ask them.

G Kearney
KK6PBX

[Niemand]

It took me a while to figure it out but the antenna is the key. I’m willing to bet it’s a long range Wi-Fi repeater. I’m also willing to be your electric utility is using it to collect usage data from so called smart meters in your area. Give the a call send ask them.

G Kearney
KK6PBX

This sounds most plausible. It looks like a WiFi box.

In my area the council sometimes uses street lights to put up CCTV.

[MikeMaillet]

I f you own the pole then I would consider FoxMammaWisdom's suggestion and shoot it down.

Mike

[BigT]

This may be talking about this device, from Harris Corporation:

https://fccid.io/AXATR-357-A2

[MikeMaillet]

This may be talking about the device, from Harris Corporation:

https://fccid.io/AXATR-357-A2

If I remember correctly, the 800 MHz - 900 MHz frequencies are used mostly for cell phones.

Mike

[dreamtheater76]

Looks like an invasive nefarious species. Shoot it down.

Call your local elected officials and report it so they can drone strike it using our tax payer money.

[BeNotDeceived]

I f you own the pole then I would consider FoxMammaWisdom's suggestion and shoot it down.

Mike

Climb up there and disable it in the least damaging way possible so as not to be obvious, then set up video surveillance to see who shows up to fix it.

[FoxMammaWisdom]

I f you own the pole then I would consider FoxMammaWisdom's suggestion and shoot it down.

Mike

Climb up there and disable it in the least damaging way possible so as not to be obvious, then set up video surveillance to see who shows up to fix it.

But shooting it would be more fun

[Seed Starter]

I f you own the pole then I would consider FoxMammaWisdom's suggestion and shoot it down.

Mike

Climb up there and disable it in the least damaging way possible so as not to be obvious, then set up video surveillance to see who shows up to fix it.

But shooting it would be more fun

How have you not dated in 10 years? You seem like the life of the party

[FoxMammaWisdom]

I f you own the pole then I would consider FoxMammaWisdom's suggestion and shoot it down.

Mike

Climb up there and disable it in the least damaging way possible so as not to be obvious, then set up video surveillance to see who shows up to fix it.

But shooting it would be more fun

How have you not dated in 10 years? You seem like the life of the party

I'm a little more of an introvert IRL than I might appear to be online . I can handle socializing in VERY small doses. And I really don't have time to think about a partner, I would be a bad partner right now. I'm devoted to my kiddo who only has one parent paying attention to him. It would have to be the right partner. But then I guess that's the point so I'll be patient!

[Lexew1899]

I would suspect it is an interception station placed there by the NSA to monitor all of your LDSFF posts.

[BeNotDeceived]

I f you own the pole then I would consider FoxMammaWisdom's suggestion and shoot it down.

Mike

Climb up there and disable it in the least damaging way possible so as not to be obvious, then set up video surveillance to see who shows up to fix it.

But shooting it would be more fun

A full metal jacket bullet carefully placed wouldn’t be obvious, from a distance.

[Silver Pie]

If the light is on your private property, placed there by you (and the electricity to it paid by you), how is it even legal for someone to attach anything to it?

[Jamescm]

If the light is on your private property, placed there by you (and the electricity to it paid by you), how is it even legal for someone to attach anything to it?

About as legal as most representatives in government, most government bills and proposals involving tax money in any capacity, arguably all tax money in general, federal land, U.S. participation in treaties that supersede the U.S. constitution...

[BigT]

Is that your "private"/ "personal" streetlamp, or the county put it in and runs it? (I'm assuming you have ownership because you pay for it?)

This is a pole on my private property, put there decades ago at my parents request and now paid for by me.

There is absolutely an antenna coming out of the bottom. It also looks directional and is pointed east.

Seems to me they trespassed on your property and mounted something on your own personal pole without permission. I’ve never heard of rules regarding telecommunication equipment that would give them permission to do that, but I’m not in that field.

Edit to add: they should be paying you rent.