[Boatanchors]

[Richard W. Solomon]

There's nothing new under the sun ...

Many moons ago (1970's) I worked for a company in Cambridge, MA,
who developed a product line of meter readers that transmitted the
data back over the power lines.
It was a flop back then, let's see how this reincarnation works
out.

73, Dick, W1KSZ

-----Original Message-----
>From: Glen Zook <gzook at yahoo.com>
>Sent: May 9, 2008 12:46 PM
>To: RKofler at aol.com, boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] "Smart" Electric Meters
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>It depends on what frequency they are using.  When I
>was with TXU (electric company for almost half the
>State of Texas) they were using their 896 MHz trunking
>system to read the meters.  This caused no problems.
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>By the way, these remote meters actually save the
>utility company money in the long run since they can
>do away with meter readers and so forth.  It sounds
>like your utility company is using it as an excuse to
>raise your rates.
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>Glen, K9STH
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>--- RKofler at aol.com wrote:
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>I read yesterday in a newspaper article that my local
>electric utility company, Portland General Electric
>Co., is raising the  rates to pay for installing so
>called "smart electric meters". The article did not go
>into any technical detail, but it said these meters
>would be able to be read remotely and eventually they
>would have a situation where they could  remotely
>regulate some aspects of customers power usage during
>peak hours. My  concern is that these meters will be a
>source of RF interference similar to BPL.  Anybody
>have experience with these "smart meters"?
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>Glen, K9STH
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>Website:  http://k9sth.com
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