Behold, WShoots1 signalled from keyed 4-1000A filament:

Today it dawned on me that the water meter thingy for my house is
probably a transponder type that won't transmit until it's triggered by
a signal from the meter reader guy.

Bill, K5BY

Score!

Monitor the packets.

Possibly you can spoof the sumbitch to getcha 1/4 price power!

evil grin

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Gregg
*It's probably useful, even if it can't be SPICE'd*
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WShoots1 wrote:

I'm going to put a portable shortwave radio near the new meter and see what
I get.

Great idea, Starman. I'll check out my water meter that way in the morning.

I don't why I didn't think of that. Every few years, I have to roam the streets
to find an interfering pole transformer or street light ballast.

Bill, K5BY

I just found two bad (noisy) street lights in my neighborhood that were
causing intermittent noise. The new high pressure sodium (yellow) lights
seem to have more problems than the older mercury vapor (blue-white)
ones.


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Gregg: Monitor the packets. Possibly you can spoof the sumbitch to getcha
1/4 price power!

Heh heh... Good idea, except for one problem. Now that I'm widowed, I only use
1000 gal/month of water, but I have to pay for 2000 minimum whether I use it or
not. Of course, should I go back to growing some food... ):

Starman: The new high pressure sodium (yellow) lights seem to have more
problems than the older mercury vapor (blue-white) ones.

When they installed street lights here a few months ago, they were sodium.
Already I reported on intermittent one, which they fixed. I'll check them out
because I do get noise at night that doesn't seem right. Thanks.

Bill, K5BY

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 03:01:09 -0400, starman wrote:

WShoots1 wrote:

I'm going to put a portable shortwave radio near the new meter and see what
I get.

Great idea, Starman. I'll check out my water meter that way in the morning.

I don't why I didn't think of that. Every few years, I have to roam the streets
to find an interfering pole transformer or street light ballast.

Bill, K5BY

I just found two bad (noisy) street lights in my neighborhood that were
causing intermittent noise. The new high pressure sodium (yellow) lights
seem to have more problems than the older mercury vapor (blue-white)
ones.

Yellow is Low Pressure Sodium, HPS is more of a pink.....

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matt weber wrote:

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 03:01:09 -0400, starman wrote:

WShoots1 wrote:

I'm going to put a portable shortwave radio near the new meter and see what
I get.

Great idea, Starman. I'll check out my water meter that way in the morning.

I don't why I didn't think of that. Every few years, I have to roam the streets
to find an interfering pole transformer or street light ballast.

Bill, K5BY

I just found two bad (noisy) street lights in my neighborhood that were
causing intermittent noise. The new high pressure sodium (yellow) lights
seem to have more problems than the older mercury vapor (blue-white)
ones.

Yellow is Low Pressure Sodium, HPS is more of a pink.....

You're right. Most of the new lights on the back streets in my area are
low pressure sodium but we do have some high pressure ones on the main
roads where more light is needed. In either case, they seem to fail more
often than the mercury vapor ones, particularly going off and on all
night. It's the restart that causes the RF noise.


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