Topic '[Serious] What could this be?' in forum 'Canadian Chat'

Topic '[Serious] What could this be?' in forum 'Canadian Chat' - dslreports.com http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Serious-What-could-this-be-22657907 en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:19:57 EDT Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:19:57 EDT Re: [Serious] What could this be? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Serious-What-could-this-be-22670335
I don't know about the City of Gatineau, but I do know that the City of Ottawa monitors some remote water/sewer pumping stations with simple wireless antennas like the one pictured.

Also, I bet the cameras are dummies.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Serious-What-could-this-be-22670335 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:31:57 EDT Re: [Serious] What could this be? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Serious-What-could-this-be-22665864 said by Moonman:

one way to find out... Well since that area is in Quebec, hoisting a Canadian flag from the tallest antenna, or removing French language from the signs would likely provide a faster response. :D]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Serious-What-could-this-be-22665864 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:50:09 EDT Re: [Serious] What could this be? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Serious-What-could-this-be-22665560 take a .22 and pop out a couple of them cameras.
then wait to see who comes and fixes em.
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That presumes access to a phone line. In a case like this, at that elevation, radio may be more efficient.The ones in Niagara don't use phone lines, they use the cellular network with switched data. It's the same as sending a fax or doing old 14.4 dialup over a cell phone like in the old days. A lot cheaper to do it that way than setting up fixed-link radio infrastructure.

The monitors on the wind farm down in Wainfleet/West Lincoln use GPRS packet data, but the principal is the same.
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said by DKS:

Most likely as water reservoir. The antenna sends data to a central monitoring station. The post-like devices are vents. The TV cameras are there for security. After all, it's infrastructure.

I don't know about up there, but down here water monitoring stations use a switched data cell connection to call into the monitoring server (which is sitting in our rack, haha), report the data, and then hang up. There's no large antennas or anything like that.
That presumes access to a phone line. In a case like this, at that elevation, radio may be more efficient.
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Most likely as water reservoir. The antenna sends data to a central monitoring station. The post-like devices are vents. The TV cameras are there for security. After all, it's infrastructure.I don't know about up there, but down here water monitoring stations use a switched data cell connection to call into the monitoring server (which is sitting in our rack, haha), report the data, and then hang up. There's no large antennas or anything like that.
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It looks like a weather station. I saw one very similar near Peterbrough at the Silver Lake thing.
But there is no visable instrumentation (anemometers, Stevenson screens, wind vain, etc.), although the equipment used for determine atmospheric visibility vague resembles a pair of cameras tilted down and pointed towards each other. (example: »www.columbiaweather.com/Images/a···lity.jpg)

Finally figured out what the massive complex nearby is for, it is called "Centre Asticou, formation professionnelle, gouvernement fédéral"; It’s a federally run education complex for civil servants. »www.csps-efpc.gc.ca/cus/asticou-eng.asp]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Serious-What-could-this-be-22661106 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:51:44 EDT Re: [Serious] What could this be? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Serious-What-could-this-be-22660842
It looks like a weather station. I saw one very similar near Peterbrough at the Silver Lake thing.
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Another view of the site.
»www.flickr.com/photos/31271847@N···6052866/]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Serious-What-could-this-be-22659191 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:02:28 EDT Re: [Serious] What could this be? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Serious-What-could-this-be-22659116
This was a few years ago though.

I'll have to ask my wife who dragged me that forsaken mountain where I also spotted the man-eating grizzly mountain snake that jumped out at me. I didn't scream like a little girl and jumped out of its way, in case she brings that up ;) It looked almost like this snake »Can anyone identify this snake? except it had fangs, at least 8 feet long, showed no fear and had fur and growled. (thats the story I'm sticking with)

Will ask if she took pictures of it.

Pretty sure i saw a sign stating its a weather station or similar when I was last there 3+ years ago.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Serious-What-could-this-be-22659116 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:57:04 EDT Re: [Serious] What could this be? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Serious-What-could-this-be-22659071
Having said that, if it was an outer marker for RO, then it should no longer be in use, and is not on low level charts, nor the Ottawa terminal control area map. so, this is no longer used (if it ever was) for air navigation.

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"Vision without funds....
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An ILS marker for the International Airport would be Federal not municipality?It's possible that the feds may pay the local police to do patrol, but if it was an ILS marker there would definitely be NavCanada signage there somewhere.
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Perhaps its an emergency response tx repeater or something like that.....]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Serious-What-could-this-be-22659013 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:04:40 EDT Re: [Serious] What could this be? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Serious-What-could-this-be-22658956
Looks like an ILS outer marker.

Ok, found your spot.

While the distance is right (10Nm for an outer marker), the angle is wrong. I actually pulled up the approach pubs and most of the points are further to the SW of your protected antenna.

So, it does not look like it is an outer marker.

:(

BTW, the underground location is probably for power generation as this antenna probably packs a juicy demand :)
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There is a very similar looking structure like this in the UBC endowment lands here in Vancouver just off 16th Avenue.
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Looks like a weather ~~station~~ balloon
Fixed ;)

It's clearly something; it is odd that the lamp post (with 3 cameras) also has an antenna. The tower located on the block structure has what appears to be a directional log antenna, if you can orient it to the overhead photo, the direction it is pointing might give some cues. (Found the building via google maps, but I still can not find any information about it - EDIT - there is a large installation to the NE, the entire complex is set within the park and encircled by a road - anyone know what it is?)

Could be a cold war relic that was handed over to the local fuzz; funny how so much money was spent to protect the elected officials from a bomb blast, while the rest of the populous (the mass that elected them) were told to duck and cover.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Serious-What-could-this-be-22658612 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:14:35 EDT Re: [Serious] What could this be? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Serious-What-could-this-be-22658387 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Serious-What-could-this-be-22658387 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:18:56 EDT Re: [Serious] What could this be? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Serious-What-could-this-be-22658150 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Serious-What-could-this-be-22658150 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:04:05 EDT Re: [Serious] What could this be? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Serious-What-could-this-be-22658043
Didn't hull amalgamate into Gatineau in 1975?

The police sign clearly shows the "city of Hull".

I've climbed the mountain before and been to that site. There is another structure next to it (If I remember correctly) that isn't in the photographs.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Serious-What-could-this-be-22658043 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:26:06 EDT Re: [Serious] What could this be? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Serious-What-could-this-be-22658002 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Serious-What-could-this-be-22658002 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:08:08 EDT Re: [Serious] What could this be? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Serious-What-could-this-be-22657952 --
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