[BC] The answer...

[Barry Mishkind]

At 10:18 AM 12/22/05, Burt I. Weiner wrote
>Ok.  The answer is that on many of the street light poles along 
>Walnut Avenue in east Pasadena there are little transmitters with 
>about 6' long whips operating on 1520 kHz.  Walnut Avenue is about 
>one block south of the 210 Freeway and runs parallel to the 
>freeway.  I've counted about six of these things.  They are all on 
>the air at the same time and some of them have about a 400 Hz tone 
>that is over modulated.  I've tracked them down and have pictures of 
>some of them.  I contacted the City of Pasadena's (CA) Street 
>Lighting Bureau and they know nothing about them.  None of the 
>Pasadena City agencies that I contacted know anything about 
>them.  One woman got real indignant with me.  So, they sit on the 
>air as a curiosity.

         Wouldn't the local FCC folks have
         some ideas on it?