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This was found on a friend's home. Home is originally from the 80s in Florida. Ideally, they'd be taking this down when the new gutters go up, but before tossing it out, trying to figure it out.
Google has failed us so far, unless this is a fishing pole or part of a bagpipe mounted to the outside of the house. This seems unlikely.
The tube seems to be PVC.
NotTheSameAnymore
Some kind of antenna maybe
sevenfingers
omni-directional outdoor wifi antenna
Elsoyyo
Wankbiscuit
Flood meter. When water reaches the meter - shit's flooded, yo.
Hurro
Bad news: Its upside down. Good news: Early warning detector.
bluntforcedrama
That's just outstanding. You earned that +1!
CT1space3DX
Is there a cable coming out of the top? Coaxial by any chance? Might be an antenna of some sort.
bluntforcedrama
Yeah, some sort of cable. But it seems so short for a standard 80s/90s style antenna. Can't tell if it's coax.
CT1space3DX
amateur radio stuff maybe.
Watersample
That was my first guess. There's probably a coil of wire inside the pvc.
animatronicChristmasChickens
Sure looks like an antenna of some kind. Any legible markings?
bluntforcedrama
Nothing we could see, likely as old as the house.
animatronicChristmasChickens
See if this is helpful https://www.antennas.com/product-category/dpv-series/page/2/
bluntforcedrama
It is! As a lot of the answers here have favored an antenna, I see a lot of vhf/scanner antenna that look similar in design, if not exact.
CulpaScintilla
If not an antenna, my guess is a sensor for a whether station thing.
ME2BNS12
Alot of good answers so far, but we also use them for wireless camera transmission, because they can usually handle WiFi bandwidth. That huge F-type coax cable is expensive stuff also.
hushpuppyextraordinaire
It’s clearly an old turbo encabulator , they were popular in the south back In The 80’s
ChanceVLuck
It's a cellular signal repeater antenna from back in the day. It would connect to a wall mounted unite that kinka looks like the door chime for your door bell button. It's useless nowadays. If you pull back the rubber boot just above the mounting bracket you'll find an F connector like you have for cable TV which can be unscrewed. Or you can just cut the cable.
bluntforcedrama
Outstanding, not at all surprising it's old in this setting, too
ChanceVLuck
If you tear it appart, you'll likely find one of those old fashion car cell antennas made of wire with the multiple curls that people used to put on the back window of their car.
bluntforcedrama
Were these used to allow better cell phone reception before towers were more ubiquitous? Or did they serve some other purpose, like for a home alarm? As I recall, most home security systems back then used land lines.
ChanceVLuck
Funny you should ask considering I have been in the alarm industry, on the residential side for over 33 years. We did use cellular back in the 90's. It was very rare and quite expensive both the install and the monthly service. It was mostly used as a back up in crtitical condition locations such as power plants.
bluntforcedrama
Awesome information, my man. Thank you!
fretno
Baby shark tank heater
TheAllNewKiaGonorrhea
Where does the rest of the line lead to in the house?
bluntforcedrama
Hard to tell, writing in the house is a little jacked. Some switches go to nothing, junction boxes that wire... Nothing.
Teampants79
How many wires / what gages are going in? Is it live?
bluntforcedrama
One thick cable, and the main reason we're digging into it is because we can't tell if it's live and would like not to meet ol sparky
SirRuppOfFigs
Maybe a scanner antenna?
bluntforcedrama
We had been speculating if it was some sort of receiver for a very old remote or security system of some sort, so that's as plausible as anything!
fskn
That's clearly a ten incher.
Volpe42
Is that wire coax?
Kensshinydetachablecockpiece
Dongle.
neilwatkinsfromaccounting
galapas
Can we get a banana up there please? Need to see how big it is.
BornOnAMonday83
When you get flooding in the house you pull on that and it flushes all the water out like a toilet. Standard on Florida homes.
abraxasfury
"Tape measure"
bluntforcedrama
Google spotted that, too, lol.
theguythatdidthething
why the quotations? is it suspicious
abraxasfury
Because it's a direct quotation of what somebody said
bluntforcedrama
No tape measure should ever be trusted. That's why you measure like 6 times, cut once and... SONOFABITCH
horseman05
Looks like an older Marine band VHF antenna.
plinkey
This is my guess, how close are you to water?
bluntforcedrama
Well it's Florida, so never super far, but they're near Orlando, not on the coasts.