On 06/27/2011 10:38 PM, Jason Rabel wrote: > Centerpoint Energy has reached the epitome of laziness and is converting > everyone over to "smart meters" so people can better > monitor their usage... In reality it does nothing more than offer real-time > monitoring for the power company, and they no longer > have a use for meter-readers... >
If the communications to/from them is in the CENELEC A band (or similar), one may have to go to great lengths in order to have 60..77.5kHz clocks/receivers working. http://n1.taur.dk/dcf/tm.png (scope) http://n1.taur.dk/dcf/idleannot.png (quiet) http://n1.taur.dk/dcf/active.png (active on the high channel in A band) I am only 500km from DCF77 (Denmark), and since they replaced the meter with a 'smart' one, none of the radio clocks have been able to sync. Only the phase tracking receiver, having a noise blanker, still works. So I do not like 'smart' meters. /Kasper Pedersen _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
