[SGVHAK] What is this?

[Jeremy Leader]

The top of a pole strikes me as a really poor location for a seismic station!

I've seen boxes on streetlights and powerpoles with small antennas, I assumed 
they were for monitoring utility equipment.

Braddock's photo at the start of the thread definitely looks like a weather 
station to me, based on the 3-cup anemometer at the upper left of the photo.

-- 
Jeremy Leader
jleader at alumni.caltech.edu

On 03/25/2013 11:11 AM, Dan Buthusiem wrote:
> I've noticed quite a few popping up recently. One in South Pasadena seemed to be
> the best WiMax spots back when it was still in deployment. I doubt they're all
> weather stations, seeing as I don't see the use of having such a dense sensor
> distribution for tracking weather. I can only guess it'd be for seismic activity
> (they are working on adding sensors to the seismic detector network), or the
> possibility they're antennas for some sort of urban wireless network. Whatever
> they are, they're definitely growing in number. Good to know I'm not the only
> one to notice them.
>
> On Mar 25, 2013 9:47 AM, "James McDuffie" <mcduffie at pitfall.org
> <mailto:mcduffie at pitfall.org>> wrote:
>
>     __
>     I was curious too. I looked both at the Weather Underground and NOAA station
>     locator websites and could not find anything listed at those cross streets.
>     http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/about.asp
>     http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/
>     Some questions that might lead to more answers:
>     * Is pole on private or public property?
>     * Do you see a control box on the ground? I am guessing the control and
>     communication equipment is mounted above the radiation shield.
>     * Is there a wire going from the station into the pole?
>     Maybe its a station for a local school.
>     On Mon, Mar 25, 2013, at 08:20 AM, Braddock wrote:
>>     Do cities regularly install weather stations?  What for?  And two on one
>>     block?
>>     I'm very curious.
>>     -braddock
>>     On 03/24/2013 03:44 PM, Claude Felizardo wrote:
>>>     Yuppers.  Definitely looks like a wind speed sensor, possibly a rain
>>>     gauge on top and a ventilated temp and/or humidity sensor.  Surprised
>>>     that there isn't a wind direction sensor.
>>>     They could be monitoring for other stuff.  Air pollution but then they
>>>     usually need easy access to a particulate filter fairly often.
>>>     On Mar 24, 2013, at 2:32 PM, James McDuffie <mcduffie at pitfall.org
>>>     <mailto:mcduffie at pitfall.org>> wrote:
>>>>     Looks very much like a weather station.
>>>>     braddock at braddock.com <mailto:braddock at braddock.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         There are two of these things mounted on poles one block apart on
>>>>         Mission and Fair Oaks in South Pasadena.
>>>>         What are they? Is the city running some kind of weather station?