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Re: [RFI] So-Called Utility "Smart Meters"

To: EP Swynar <gswynar@durham.net>
Subject: Re: [RFI] So-Called Utility "Smart Meters"
From: kd4e <doc@kd4e.com>
Reply-to: doc@kd4e.com
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:42:33 -0400
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One wonders what a KW of AM into a nearby vertical might
do to these meters ...

> The good folks here at the Ontario Hydro generating outfit (or
> WHATEVER it is that they might call themselves this week) have
> elected to install so-called "smart meters", in place of the regular
> old-fashioned ones, at the street AC drop point outside of everyone's
> house...
> 
> For the uninitiated, "smart meters" automatically keep track of power
> usage in each home, and then charge rates according to whether or not
> it's "peak / prime" time, or otherwise...apparently (as I understand
> it) these odious devices are in constant communication wirelessly
> with "Big Brother", feeding the data to some central collection
> point, to calculate final billing...and they mark the end of days for
> the old-fashioned, traditional humanoid meter reader.
> 
> Oh yes, did I mention that this is all a "...GOOD thing" for
> Ontario...?
> 
> Anyway, I'm VERY curious if any Hams reading this, who may have
> already had smart meters installed at their respective QTHs, have
> experienced any sort of RFI either to, or from, the readers...? I
> wrote a strongly-worded letter to the local co-ordinator of this
> effort, and received a phone message back from one of his minions
> that I would be hearing from them shortly...that was about a month
> ago.
> 
> The monitor was installed at my QTH here a coupla days ago, but the
> system is not yet operational.
> 
> Any sage words from the ranks of the knowledgeable...?
> 
> Thanks in advance, & my vy
> 
> ~73!~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ


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Thanks! & 73, doc, KD4E
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