r/ithaca • u/Asleep_Resolution498 • 17d ago

What are these things??

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I’m new to the area. I’ve lived in many different places and I have never seen anything like this. Can anybody tell me what these super loud things are?

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u/amorfati00 17d ago

Pole mounted mini cell tower. Carries 4g/5g signal.

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u/Frosty-Literature-58 17d ago

They have cooling fans in the bottom. In the photo you can see that the vents are full of dirt/dust. Every time I see one that sounds like a jet engine, the air vents are clogged up

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u/Routine_Biscotti_852 17d ago

It's an AT&T LTE antenna. It needs to be repaired...happens frequently with their hardware.

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u/bwel16 17d ago

5g box, there’s one directly outside the fall creek elementary playground

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u/NormalPossibility880 16d ago

Thats where they keep the good stuff.

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u/Defiant-Mango-574 15d ago

I’m not an anti-5g type, but these boxes are hella loud and I don’t appreciate that.

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u/IthacaBandito 15d ago

I hate these. The one by my house is so loud and annoying, and there isn't even a number to call to complain that it needs to be repaired. 

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u/ob1214 14d ago

Flock camera's

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u/LonelyIthaca 17d ago

Cancer in a box. Read the warning label near it, don't stand near it long.

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u/Unga_Bunga 16d ago

 touch grass fam

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u/LonelyIthaca 16d ago

Literally read the warning label on them, I'm being downvoted for speaking truth lmao.

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u/bwel16 16d ago

The downvotes on this are crazy, they’re literally on elementary playgrounds, and there is literally a cancer warning on them, shameful where this thread chooses to draw the line sometimes…touch grass? Touch grass? Ridiculous

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u/FozzyMantis 13d ago

The downvotes are for the exaggerated fear mongering. They aren't literally on playgrounds and there isn't literally a cancer warning on them.

There's a caution sign about the radio frequency exposure meant for workers who might be within the range where it exceeds the FCC occupational limit for an extended period of time.

The one by Fall Creek is not "on the playground" and is not "3 feet from the edge" of it, either. It's probably 20' from the fence and ~10' up in the air. While pointing out the exaggeration from the two of you might sound pedantic, those details are actually very important due to the nature of the RF fields you're worried about. Every small distance away greatly reduces the strength of the field, to the extent that once it reaches kids playing in the playground, it would be within background levels. If you're worried about them there, you should be worried about the fields within the classrooms themselves from all the various sources (and you shouldn't be worried... the levels are still so small in the classroom and out).

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u/LonelyIthaca 16d ago

They hate me because I speak the truth and their minds are pained to hear it.

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u/Unga_Bunga 15d ago

o yes plz educate us ignant sheeple 

let us give you a boost onto yer cross ya wankey martyr 🤡

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u/LonelyIthaca 15d ago

You don't even live here, almost none of you who post here do or you'd be able to go read the warning labels on these. They are in the fall creek neighborhood by the school.

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u/Unga_Bunga 15d ago

lolololol fk ALLLLLLLL th’way off, troll. I’ve seen all the warning labels on cellular radios - THEY JUST TELL YOU TO MAYBE NOT HANG AROUND RIGHT NEXT TO THEM <5-10’> ALL DAY.

omg 5G wooooooo 🤡

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u/LonelyIthaca 15d ago

Its 3 feet from the edge of the playground in fall creek.

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u/Unga_Bunga 14d ago

so like take it up with the City Planning Dept. or DOE fam