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

[Taylor Alexander]

You could always steal one and then see who comes looking for it. ;)
/sarcasm

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Christie Dudley <longobord at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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