[Amps] So-Called Utility "Smart Meters"

[Gary Smith]

I have one within 20 feet of shack that is used to measure qth's nat gas 
usage. Have not encountered any problems. (Yet.)
Gary...wa6fgi


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <hughd at cogeco.ca>
To: <amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Amps] So-Called Utility "Smart Meters"


> Hi Ed, and all.
>
> The local utility here in Flamborough, Ontario decided to install a
> smart meter at my house just a couple of months after we moved in about
> 5 years ago. I haven't noticed any a appreciable noise on HF or any of
> the higher bands. I'm a  casual EME operator on VHF and my noise level
> has not changed at all, nor do I notice any sweeping noise or broadband
> noise at any particular spectral intervals.
>
> One of these days I'll bring a spectrum analyzer home from work and go
> out to the side of the house to sniff around the meter and see what I
> can detect.
>
> 73, Hugh VA3TO/NA3TO
>
>>
>> EP Swynar wrote:
>>
>>> Good Morning All,
>>>
>>> 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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