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   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:08:37 +1300, Your Name    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 2025-10-27 23:27:42 +0000, Bobbie Sellers said:   
      
      
      
   >> 	Easily if expensively remedied with a inline turbine to generate the   
   >> power to deal with the radio device.   
   >   
   >Or simply a wire from the house mains supply, appropriately lowered for    
   >the smart meters' power requirement of course. Power and water services    
   >(along with ye olde landline phone) are often fairly close together    
   >anyway to save on digging multiple trenches.   
      
   Up here, they are all aerial.   
      
   The copper telephone is higher than the fiber optic. This is because,   
   back in the late 90s/early 00s, I twice had to call in to report that   
   the line had been ripped out. They then came out and raised it up   
   higher.   
      
   So now we have City Utils running a wire from the (new and probably   
   smart) water meter to the transmitter/antenna ... or perhaps just   
   joining the wireless smart electric meter for both power and   
   communications.   
      
   Now, if it weren't for the expense of the trenchwork, might work:   
   piggyback the water meter's wireless onto the already existing   
   electric meter's.   
      
   Of course, someone would have to pay for this ... guess who that would   
   be, eventually if not immediately?   
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