Subject: Re: [Homestead] Electricity prices going up , fake or not
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 10:20:51 EST
> >Out here in the hinterlands, they can't even read the meters
> automatically. They have to get out of their truck, walk to the meter,
> and write down the readings.
>
They installed the wireless meters for our electricity some time ago.
Suppose to read up to 3000'. As the crow flies (as the FM signal flies,
actually),
it is line-of-sight about 1600' to the road. They can't read it, have to
drive up here to get within 25' of the thing before it works.