Subj : Smar Meter Follow Up
To   : All
From : n2qfd
Date : Wed Mar 27 2024 17:52:25

Here's a little more from what I was able to dig up today too. 
If you're a NYSEG (New York State Electric and Gas) customer like me it'll be coming this summer. I think National Grid has already started rolling them out.  

 https://www.nyseg.com/smartenergy/innovation/smartmeters

 Our utility is becoming part of the Internet of Things! BTW it's starting in the teens of dollars/month if you want to opt out from NYSEG's plan and they are getting rid of 90% of the meter readers. 

https://www.smartgrid.gov/the_smart_grid/smart_grid.html

They tend to operate in the 902-920Mhz right on top of the amateur portion. They are digital mesh net type transceivers. They are Part 15 FCC so consumer electronics and must accept interference from Part 97 Ham radio.


 https://www.arrl.org/smart-meters 

  So that's the poop I have at the moment. I appreciate the typed in URL's I run linux here and did a build from source on SyncTERM on Paulee's suggestion. After than (as long as there isn't a lot of hidden formatting data) most of the time I can cut from a text window and paste here with shift+insert but I can't copy back out. I have tried the scroll back trick but think I'm missing something so I often just export the message and open it in Notepadqq and take it from there!  Ah the slower internet... 

 N2QFD

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