2023 has come with a new technology mystery. Unknown person or people for a year have been erecting antennas on the hills of Salt Lake City. The last of these antennas was removed from where it was erected by officials on Wednesday. The planted antennas are all connected to a Solar panel and have a sealed battery box. There has been an increase in the number of antennas erected in recent months, and they are being erected even higher. The last antenna was found at an altitude of 2,100 meters.
“These towers attach to different peaks, peaks, and ridges around foothills,” says Tyler Fonarow, Salt Lake City’s recreation trails manager.
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Other antennas have been found on land managed by the Forest Service and the University of Utah, but the university has said it has nothing to do with these antennas.
Suggestions for the purposes of antennas range from their being number stations (an odd and unlikely explanation) to much more mundane responses, such as they could be used to transmit signals or be used for mining cryptocurrencies. The last antenna broadcasts at 900 megahertz and this range is used by the Helium blockchain. Helium is a wireless network that relies on people to build infrastructure by placing equipment and rewarding them with cryptocurrency for doing so.
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