[Noisebridge-discuss] Solar-power radios popping up around the Mission

[Christie Dudley]

Well, obviously it's a mesh as it's JUST the antenna and the panel. There
are a number of reasons that come to mind that they would use the solar
panels on a pole that has power (mostly having to do with inter-departmental
politics and relations with PG&E) but the best reason I can think of to do
that is for emergency services. Or alternately, non-city "services".

Another thing that this reminds me of is the truck signalling on the
highways. (It's a national consortium for weigh stations, mostly.) It'd be a
stretch to see how they might want to expand it into the cities. However, it
looks like it's a 90 deg. polarization from those. It looks like the FasTrak
antennas are similarly polarized.

Christie
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On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Dr. Jesus <j at hug.gs> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Dr. Jesus <j at hug.gs> wrote:
> >> Looks like a ShotSpotter.  I can't think of anything else that would
> >> involve bolting a solar panel to a city-owned pole that already has AC
> >> service.  The board of supervisors has wanted to expand the existing
> >> GDS network into the Mission since at least 2008.  I guess they
> >> finally found the cash to do it:
> >
> > I'm not certain about it being a ShotSpotter or not. There's on at
> > 16th and Mission that looks totally different.
> >
> > Most of the other ones I've been seeing around the neighborhood look
> > like this: http://flickr.com/gp/thejof/f08M91
>
> Huh, I'm not sure what that is.  Maybe it's part of the wifi mesh for
> the section 8 housing, but I don't know why they would use a solar
> panel instead of the power in the pole, and I don't see a battery.  I
> might be able to look up the pole number if it's on a NCJPA owned
> pole.  I'll have a look when I'm there before the meeting.
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