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Here in the NE UK mysterious attachments are appearing on some (tall)
LED lampposts.
These are not the usual cameras, although we have plenty of those.
There seems to be two types i) a shiny metal box ~50 cm tall by 10/20 cm
wide, with an aerial, and fitted high up; and ii) a much smaller device
fitted lower down (to a different post) with what looks like a mushroom
shaped appendage, (no clear sign of an aerial, but that might be it)?
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Jim the Geordie wrote:

Here in the NE UK mysterious attachments are appearing on some (tall)
LED lampposts.

Anything like this?

<https://www.facebook.com/groups/dullmensclub/posts/1820968098559723/>
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On 26/02/2026 17:44, Andy Burns wrote:

Jim the Geordie wrote:

Here in the NE UK mysterious attachments are appearing on some (tall)
LED lampposts.

Anything like this?

<https://www.facebook.com/groups/dullmensclub/posts/1820968098559723/>

Yes that looks like the i). However, reading the replies, you can
understand why I asked here and not on Facebook. None the wiser.
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On 26/02/2026 16:51, Jim the Geordie wrote:

Here in the NE UK mysterious attachments are appearing on some (tall)
LED lampposts.
These are not the usual cameras, although we have plenty of those.
There seems to be two types i) a shiny metal box ~50 cm tall by 10/20 cm wide, with an aerial, and fitted high up; and ii) a much smaller device fitted lower down (to a different post) with what looks like a mushroom shaped appendage, (no clear sign of an aerial, but that might be it)?

I for one welcome our new overlords with mushroom-shaped appendages.
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Jim the Geordie wrote:

On 26/02/2026 17:44, Andy Burns wrote:

Jim the Geordie wrote:

Here in the NE UK mysterious attachments are appearing on some (tall)
LED lampposts.

Anything like this?

<https://www.facebook.com/groups/dullmensclub/posts/1820968098559723/>

Yes that looks like the i). However, reading the replies, you can
understand why I asked here and not on Facebook. None the wiser.

It's for communicating between lampposts so they can be centrally
controlled to turn on/off at different times of the night ...

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On 26/02/2026 18:59, Andy Burns wrote:

Jim the Geordie wrote:

On 26/02/2026 17:44, Andy Burns wrote:

Jim the Geordie wrote:

Here in the NE UK mysterious attachments are appearing on some
(tall) LED lampposts.

Anything like this?

<https://www.facebook.com/groups/dullmensclub/posts/1820968098559723/>

Yes that looks like the i). However, reading the replies, you can
understand why I asked here and not on Facebook. None the wiser.

It's for communicating between lampposts so they can be centrally
controlled to turn on/off at different times of the night ...

If lampposts are communicating honestly now, then they are probably more advanced than we humans. They deffo shed more light.

I wish my body was more like one, instead of similar to a sack of spuds.

Tone
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On 26/02/2026 16:51, Jim the Geordie wrote:

Here in the NE UK mysterious attachments are appearing on some (tall)
LED lampposts.
These are not the usual cameras, although we have plenty of those.
There seems to be two types i) a shiny metal box ~50 cm tall by 10/20 cm wide, with an aerial, and fitted high up; and ii) a much smaller device fitted lower down (to a different post) with what looks like a mushroom shaped appendage, (no clear sign of an aerial, but that might be it)?

Looks like a 5G base station.
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On 26/02/2026 20:53, John Williamson wrote:

On 26/02/2026 16:51, Jim the Geordie wrote:

Here in the NE UK mysterious attachments are appearing on some (tall)
LED lampposts.
These are not the usual cameras, although we have plenty of those.
There seems to be two types i) a shiny metal box ~50 cm tall by 10/20 cm
wide, with an aerial, and fitted high up; and ii) a much smaller device
fitted lower down (to a different post) with what looks like a mushroom
shaped appendage, (no clear sign of an aerial, but that might be it)?

Looks like a 5G base station.

Does it fuck.
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On 26/02/2026 18:46, Jim the Geordie wrote:

On 26/02/2026 17:44, Andy Burns wrote:

Jim the Geordie wrote:

Here in the NE UK mysterious attachments are appearing on some (tall)
LED lampposts.

Anything like this?

<https://www.facebook.com/groups/dullmensclub/posts/1820968098559723/>

Yes that looks like the i). However, reading the replies, you can
understand why I asked here and not on Facebook. None the wiser.

usually they put a notice on the pole saying what they are for to
discourage the destruction by anti-5g protestors.

These appear to be part of a LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network)
being rolled out by connexin:-

https://www.connexin.co.uk/build-enquiries

https://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/business/new-smart-network-to-be-rolled-out-across-northumberland-as-connexin-partners-with-council-5504288

not sure if this is the same network or a duplicate but also for reading
water meters...

https://www.nwl.co.uk/myaccount/water-meters/smart-water-meters/

Dave


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On 26/02/2026 20:53, John Williamson wrote:

On 26/02/2026 16:51, Jim the Geordie wrote:

Here in the NE UK mysterious attachments are appearing on some (tall)
LED lampposts.
These are not the usual cameras, although we have plenty of those.
There seems to be two types i) a shiny metal box ~50 cm tall by 10/20 cm
wide, with an aerial, and fitted high up; and ii) a much smaller device
fitted lower down (to a different post) with what looks like a mushroom
shaped appendage, (no clear sign of an aerial, but that might be it)?

Looks like a 5G base station.

5g base stations don't usually have visible aerials, they have MIMO
antenna that can beam the signal to individual phones...

https://www.waveform.com/a/b/guides/mimo-antenna-guide

Dave
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mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> wrote:

On 26/02/2026 20:53, John Williamson wrote:

On 26/02/2026 16:51, Jim the Geordie wrote:

Here in the NE UK mysterious attachments are appearing on some (tall)
LED lampposts.
These are not the usual cameras, although we have plenty of those.
There seems to be two types i) a shiny metal box ~50 cm tall by 10/20 cm >> wide, with an aerial, and fitted high up; and ii) a much smaller device
fitted lower down (to a different post) with what looks like a mushroom
shaped appendage, (no clear sign of an aerial, but that might be it)?

Looks like a 5G base station.

Does it fuck.

Have you asked it? You might be lucky.
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Sn!pe <snipeco.2@gmail.com> wrote:

mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> wrote:

On 26/02/2026 20:53, John Williamson wrote:

[rCa]

Looks like a 5G base station.

Does it fuck.

Have you asked it? You might be lucky.

LOL
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On 26/02/2026 20:53, John Williamson wrote:

On 26/02/2026 16:51, Jim the Geordie wrote:

Here in the NE UK mysterious attachments are appearing on some (tall)
LED lampposts.
These are not the usual cameras, although we have plenty of those.
There seems to be two types i) a shiny metal box ~50 cm tall by 10/20 cm
wide, with an aerial, and fitted high up; and ii) a much smaller device
fitted lower down (to a different post) with what looks like a mushroom
shaped appendage, (no clear sign of an aerial, but that might be it)?

Looks like a 5G base station.

This was installed last year, with the large bank of cabinets. Note also
the roadside structure a bit further down the road

https://tinyurl.com/3pbzxje7
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On 27/02/2026 08:02, alan_m wrote:

On 26/02/2026 20:53, John Williamson wrote:

On 26/02/2026 16:51, Jim the Geordie wrote:

Here in the NE UK mysterious attachments are appearing on some (tall)
LED lampposts.
These are not the usual cameras, although we have plenty of those.
There seems to be two types i) a shiny metal box ~50 cm tall by 10/20 cm >>> wide, with an aerial, and fitted high up; and ii) a much smaller device
fitted lower down (to a different post) with what looks like a mushroom
shaped appendage, (no clear sign of an aerial, but that might be it)?

Looks like a 5G base station.

This was installed last year, with the large bank of cabinets. Note also
the roadside structure a bit further down the road

https://tinyurl.com/3pbzxje7

O2 mast.
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alan_m wrote:

This was installed last year, with the large bank of cabinets. Note also
the roadside structure a bit further down the road

https://tinyurl.com/3pbzxje7

Looks like an EE/Three monopole <https://beta.pedroc.co.uk/content/ee-three-monopoles#page_title>
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On 26/02/2026 21:15, mm0fmf wrote:

On 26/02/2026 20:53, John Williamson wrote:

On 26/02/2026 16:51, Jim the Geordie wrote:

Here in the NE UK mysterious attachments are appearing on some (tall)
LED lampposts.
These are not the usual cameras, although we have plenty of those.
There seems to be two types i) a shiny metal box ~50 cm tall by 10/20 cm >>> wide, with an aerial, and fitted high up; and ii) a much smaller device
fitted lower down (to a different post) with what looks like a mushroom
shaped appendage, (no clear sign of an aerial, but that might be it)?

Looks like a 5G base station.

Does it fuck.

Only if you pay it
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conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the
windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor.) "

Alan Sokal

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On Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:59:38 +0000, Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
wrote:

It's for communicating between lampposts so they can be centrally
controlled to turn on/off at different times of the night ...

Here in Leicester the lamposts are linked to each other and thus back
to base but they don't have anything like the device shown attached to
them.
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Peter Johnson wrote:

Here in Leicester the lamposts are linked to each other and thus back
to base but they don't have anything like the device shown attached to
them.

I'm also in Leicester, there is a comment on the facebook page I linked,
from someone who seemed to have knowledge of the system in use which is described as a "Telensa node" that is coincidentally the system in use
in Leicester.

<https://www.telensa.com>

I must admit I haven't seen such a box on a lamp-post, but maybe there's
only a handful of them covering the whole city?


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On 27/02/2026 17:59, Andy Burns wrote:

Peter Johnson wrote:

Here in Leicester the lamposts are linked to each other and thus back
to base but they don't have anything like the device shown attached to
them.

I'm also in Leicester, there is a comment on the facebook page I linked, from someone who seemed to have knowledge of the system in use which is described as a "Telensa node" that is coincidentally the system in use
in Leicester.

<https://www.telensa.com>

I must admit I haven't seen such a box on a lamp-post, but maybe there's only a handful of them covering the whole city?

Theyre smart street lamps. They detect if someone has dropped a
half-crown, for example and switch on .

Brian
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Brian Howie <nospam@b-howie.co.uk> wrote:

On 27/02/2026 17:59, Andy Burns wrote:

Peter Johnson wrote:

Here in Leicester the lamposts are linked to each other and thus back
to base but they don't have anything like the device shown attached to
them.

I'm also in Leicester, there is a comment on the facebook page I linked,
from someone who seemed to have knowledge of the system in use which is
described as a "Telensa node" that is coincidentally the system in use
in Leicester.

<https://www.telensa.com>

I must admit I haven't seen such a box on a lamp-post, but maybe there's
only a handful of them covering the whole city?

Theyre smart street lamps. They detect if someone has dropped a
half-crown, for example and switch on .

They might have a long wait for the next half-crownrCa

I feel so sad for my children who didnrCOt grow up with pre-decimal currency. Yes, it was bonkers but it did have redeeming features and IrCOm sure it made us much better at arithmetic than those who never knew it.

Tim
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On 28/02/2026 16:07, Brian Howie wrote:

On 27/02/2026 17:59, Andy Burns wrote:

Peter Johnson wrote:

Here in Leicester the lamposts are linked to each other and thus back
to base but they don't have anything like the device shown attached to
them.

I'm also in Leicester, there is a comment on the facebook page I
linked, from someone who seemed to have knowledge of the system in use
which is described as a "Telensa node" that is coincidentally the
system in use in Leicester.

<https://www.telensa.com>

I must admit I haven't seen such a box on a lamp-post, but maybe
there's only a handful of them covering the whole city?

Theyre smart street lamps. They detect if someone has dropped a half-
crown, for example and switch on .

Another development programme that took far longer than expected.
Where was it 55 years ago when it would have been useful?
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On 28 Feb 2026 17:35:05 GMT, Tim+ <timdownieuk@yahoo.co.youkay> wrote:

They might have a long wait for the next half-crownrCa

I feel so sad for my children who didnrCOt grow up with pre-decimal currency. Yes, it was bonkers but it did have redeeming features and IrCOm sure it made us much better at arithmetic than those who never knew it.

What I miss and can't understand. The money went decimal
and all the colourful slang names went away and nothing has
replaced them.

We lived with tanner. bob, half dollar, etc. Now, we just
have fifty P, ten P, etc. Very dull.
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