I know spacedata used that licensed span for weather balloon based telemetry On Dec 15, 2015 10:05 PM, "Jerry Head" <[email protected]> wrote:
> The Southern Company here in Alabama runs Smartmeters. > Licensed 900....very small band between 900Mhz and 902Mhz. > Probably a slice from their Southern Linc Cell allocation. > They actually do pretty well with it. > > On 12/15/2015 9:02 PM, Jaime Solorza wrote: > > 455 to 465 is where many are working > On Dec 15, 2015 6:58 PM, "Bill Prince" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I talked some with a technician that came out to install the smartmeter >> on our house a month or two ago. >> >> We are in limbo. I didn't tell them they couldn't install it, but I told >> them it would have to lock out specific frequencies if they didn't want me >> to wrap it in a Faraday cage. He elected to defer the installation. We have >> been going around like this for 3 or 4 years, and they still haven't >> installed our smartmeter. >> >> No big deal. All of our neighbors still get their meters read by the old, >> manual method. Seems the meters are too far apart to actually work anyway. >> In the mean time, they just pollute the 900 MHz band. >> >> He told me that PG&E was switching over to ~~ 450 MHz (I don't know the >> exact frequencies) because they needed better range than they could get at >> 900 MHz. In fact, he said they were licensing whatever frequencies they are >> switching over to. I'll believe it when I see it. >> >> bp >> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> >> >> On 12/15/2015 5:49 PM, George Skorup wrote: >> >>> Ouch. That's what I was worried about. Now ComEd is going to roll out >>> smart meters across their entire service area in about a year and I fear >>> we're going to have to abandon 900 altogether because of it. Guess we'll be >>> trying some TVWS, until they shit on that too. >>> >>> On 12/15/2015 7:33 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: >>> >>>> Had to go to 5 MHz channel to stay registered, 1X MIMO-A, about 2 Mbps >>>> aggregate throughput on linktests. That's useless. >>>> >>>> I can't say I'm all that surprised, the signals are bad and the >>>> interference is worse. But the only way to find out was to try it. >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- From: George Skorup >>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 7:25 PM >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 900 MHz 450i report >>>> >>>> So what did you get, about 10dB SNR and 5Mbps of throughput? >>>> >>>> On 12/15/2015 7:19 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: >>>> >>>>> We swapped out an FSK AP in a high interference area today. No magic, >>>>> works about the same. >>>>> >>>>> Too bad, even the installer liked the SM and antenna. Even the coax >>>>> boots are nice. >>>>> >>>>> Will probably work well for those of you who don't have -65 noise >>>>> floors. >>>>> >>>>> We are going to have to give up on 900 MHz at this location. This was >>>>> the last gasp. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
