# what ARE These Antennas for?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 11, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-these-antennas-for/376077 "2006-10-11T17:50:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-these-antennas-for/376077/1 "2006-10-11T17:50:37Z")

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Driving home on Storrow Drive in Boston, I noticed that someone had attached antennas to the roadside light poles. These look to be dipole-they are mounted at a height of about 6’, and each dipole looks like about 3’ in length. Are these for some kind of Wi-Fi syem? I think they were just installed-never read anything about them. Or are they some kind of mind control system 9from the guys in the black helicopters)??

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**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-these-antennas-for/376077/2 "2006-10-11T18:24:11Z")

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Storrow Drive is practically in the People’s Republic so you never can be sure what they are up to. I haven’t read anything about them either but MIT pulls some impressive clandestine stunts. I would guess they are some kind of Wi-Fi antennas as well serving MIT, Harvard, or Boston University.

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**Author:** ![spingears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-these-antennas-for/376077/3 "2006-10-11T18:38:35Z")

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[QUOTE=ralph124c]  
Driving home on Storrow Drive in Boston, I noticed that someone had attached antennas to the roadside light poles. These look to be dipole-they are mounted at a height of about 6’, and each dipole looks like about 3’ in length. Are these for some kind of Wi-Fi syem? I think they were just installed-never read anything about them. Or are they some kind of mind control system 9from the guys in the black helicopters)??  
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Absolutely, positively they are for mind control from the black uniforms in the black helicopters! Not,

Much more likely part of a traffic light coordination/control/timing system. Check to see where the cable runs.