[TheList] Watercare Monitoring Stations

Mon Jun 10 07:22:18 AEST 2019

Some scanners have a "Close Call" feature that will record the frequency 
of a strong signal.
The Uniden UBC-126AT will record and display the frequency, modulation 
and the CTCSS / DCS  if any will appear in the display.
If you have or can get a loan of such an item, it might save a lot of 
time. Especially if the data transmissions are short.
  I have not used this mode, and my info is from the user manual.

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From: "Leith Cullen" <leithacullen at gmail.com>
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>What frequencys should I be trying?
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>>Mostly UHF although I think there are some sites using E band. If you 
>>hunt
>>around 450 - 480 MHz on your scanner you'll find channels which are
>>constantly transmitting (and some firing off intermittently) packets 
>>of
>>data. These are generally sh*t pumping stations, water monitoring and 
>>so on.
>>The Yagi in the photo you linked to is for D-band (450 MHz).
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>>Just wanting to know if our meters are on HF and or are encrypted?
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>>They have a Vodafone sim card in them (and are one of the reasons
>>Vodafone are still running 2G). There is an IR interface as well by 
>>the
>>looks of it.
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>>On 8/06/2019 8:43 p.m., Leith Cullen wrote:
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>>It depends on the type of smart meter you have. Some are on the mobile
>>network (2G was closed down from my understanding RS) and others are 
>>what we
>>call "mesh" network and communicate between meters until they reach a
>>transmission point.
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>>They have a Vodafone sim card in them (and are one of the reasons 
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>>are still running 2G). There is an IR interface as well by the looks 
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>>Just wanting to know if our meters are on HF and or are encrypted?
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>>Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2019 21:51:09 +1200
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>>Vodafone are keeping 2G going till 2025, I have a few devices that 
>>still
>>use it on a daily basis - 2degrees made the bad decision to kill off 
>>2G.
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>>Didn't know we had those meters here, does anyone happen to have more
>>info on those?
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>>On 8/06/2019 9:46 p.m., Shaun Sayer wrote:
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>> > It depends on the type of smart meter you have. Some are on the 
>>mobile
>> > network (2G was closed down from my understanding RS) and others are
>> > what we call ?mesh? network and communicate between meters until 
>>they
>> > reach a transmission point.
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>> > They have a Vodafone sim card in them (and are one of the reasons
>> > Vodafone are still running 2G). There is an IR interface as well by
>> > the looks of it.
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>> > On 8/06/2019 8:43 p.m., Leith Cullen wrote:
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>> >     Just wanting to know if our meters are on HF and or are 
>>encrypted?
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>> >     Leith
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