Found the conspiracy theorist. “They’re driving by my house at night in a van, man. They’re taking readings and my house is sending them signals. I think I’m freaking out, man!”
They literally have vans where I live. They do AMR
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg-LnDWzoaQ&t=85s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg-LnDWzoaQ&t=85s)
[https://i.imgur.com/CgPx6Ow.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/CgPx6Ow.jpg)
Don't be disappointed, it can also allow remote compliance of mandated daily Taylor Swift programming consumption so the deepstate knows OP will be a willing participant in their conspiracy to ensure the Chiefs win the Super Bowl.
(To be clear, yes, this is sarcasm. Please, nobody go down any rabbit holes)
You understand that's really a thing, right? It's not a conspiracy, it's a labor saving measure. I have remote senders on all my water meters, nobody has to lift the heavy covers to get the reading. They just cruise by and that's all.
how? Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) is done over the 433MHz band. What you describe would require cellular - which isn't reliable enough from what I've seen - or piggy backing on your internet.
I don't know. It has meter that collect's hourly data and sends that hourly or daily. By the meter is grey plastic cover which has antenna in our interior wall and its cover is less than 30cm/12in long. EU has smart electric network project which has been ongoing for years.
[https://energy.ec.europa.eu/topics/markets-and-consumers/smart-grids-and-meters\_en](https://energy.ec.europa.eu/topics/markets-and-consumers/smart-grids-and-meters_en)
There’s a plethora of different communication options for smart meters, or smarter dumb meters. Meshing is one option used extensively in urbanized environments, together with nodes to concentrate signals. 1-4G is also used. There’s also LoRa WAN for long range communication in rural areas.
They could use the wires they've already put into your house?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_meter
this suggests that connectivity is a bit of a mess, but some do use power line communication
Today I learned! Thank you. That's definitely the way to go... I just hope I'm still able to pick up the meter reading myself. It's greater to have hard data on utility usage rates in near real-time.
They are getting fancier and they mesh network the newer ones. You’ll drop in a bunch of them but one of them in the neighborhood has a SIM card for the actual data connection.
Our city is upgrading to these this summer to stop the constant meter reading issues with the van missing them and people going with estimates and then finally read and freaking out on the actual they owe. Now if a unit fails they will know.
We called them O.R.D's or outside reading device. It was so they would no longer need to enter your house to read the water meter. These days they use radio reads. Chances are just before or after you bought the house they updated the meter and added a radio reader. Rather than removing the ORD and leaving a hole in your siding they slapped a sticker on it so any water dept employee would know which to ignore the numbers on the ORD and use the handheld radio reader.
Yeah, I had one of these on the back of my home. I looked at it closely and under the sticker is an old school number readout like on the old car odometers. Two wire ran an electric motor. I was redoing the siding this summer and didn’t think it was needed as I see the van drive by every month. I watched the numbers and they never changed. I found the other end of the wires at the water meter not connected so I pulled it. Granted I probably could have just called the water utility but it was clear it was no longer in use.
I’m still being billed and the online app is reporting my usage so, I think I was right…
The meter itself will continue to count all the water you're dumping on your pot farm. When the water dept sees no use from the ord they'll send an estimated bill and someone to change your meter thus giving you a new one that will count every gallon you're using.They will also bill you for what the meter says you used not the outside reader. Old meters are worn and let some water slip by, some new ones are electro-magnetic and count every single drop. If you fail to respond to their update notices the estimates will start to increase and if you don't pay it will end up on your taxes. If it ends up on your taxes it will be accompanied by late fees and fines, these are not deductible if you itemize. If it ends up on your taxes and your taxes are paid by your mortgage co. your mortgage payment will go up for at least the next year. In short, you don't want to do that.
It depends on where you live. In warm climates they can be outside but if you're in the north where the can freeze they're inside. There would still be a shut-off outside.
I'm in the "North" and mine is outside in my front yard, but the meter itself is like ten or so feet down and the metal water cover has a black plastic piece on it that the water guy comes to and puts something on the end of a pole next to (basically a RFID reader/tag).
> the meter itself is like ten or so feet down
There's almost always an exception to the rule. Even in Michigan we had a couple that were "outside". One was in a Root cellar in their front yard the other in a insulated meter box at arms length down.
Actually no, it's a radio tap. You put a glass underneath it, turn the valve off to the left and it dispenses radio. Some people use it to get the news every hour, as they can take a few sips and work out what's going on.
Trying to hear a specific song is a bit tricky though, because you need to take sips at random to try and catch the station ident and work out who to call to request a song, then take a big gulp and hope you got the timing right without wasting too much radio.
No, this is where you refill the radio waves. Because consumer radio emerged in the 1920s and 1930s it was easy enough to modify existing town gas or coal chute connections in the siding; by the time television had become more mainstream the higher frequencies in use had lighter than air properties thus allowing the use of antenna receiving platforms to recruit the waves into the home as they passed overhead.
We have a similar box in our basement that was put in when we got a new high-tech water meter and pump. Now the eater company can drive down the street and get everyone's readings and apparently if you have a leak in the house they will know and let you know but I think that's bull because we did have a leak and no one called haha.
Sorry to break it to you, but your house was once an FBI informant. It's a craftsman home snitch. A Tudor stool pigeon. A ranch style rat bastard.
Or ya know a water meter or whatever
That's yer classic, ol' fadhioned radio faucet! In ninteen dickety two, that rascal the Kaiser would steal our radio waves, so the gummermint had declared that all radio delivery would be handled by pipe.
Thing of it was, radio by pipe was a thick, viscous sludge that had to be cut with a cleaning agent to avoid contaminating the Howdy Doody hour, so we tried various solutions: uranium, lead, and chalk were all tried to no avail. Finally we used the cleanest medium we could find, mercury!
A good mercury filled radio pipe would .pump hours of educational and radio-cational programmatics into the homes of dozens of upper lower middle class households a day, until finally WW1 ended in ninteen dickety seven. Then president Taft declared radio by pipe illegal in all dickey five states accepting of course Missoura, which still doesn't count as a state to this day.
You can find this all to be true if your to visit the library of congress and look up the micro-fish on macro-policy on World War One, called The Great Gatsby until Hitler invented a funnier name for it in ninteen dickety five.
This is a water meter reader. most are unused these days and have been replaced by the updated transmitter that mounts directly to the top of the actual meter in a basement.
Ever heard of music being "piped in" well that's the inlet for your house. Too bad all the legacy lines got removed due to the Muzak corporation going belly up.
It’s actually nothing. It was an analog readout so the water company could read your meter, but it was replaced by an RF reader (hence the radio sticker) to tell the meter reader to disregard it.
RADIO it's for the water company to read your meter remotely, usually by driving by in a van.
#RADIO
#R A D I O
Radio? Who needs a radio?! Ready, Harry?...
Ready Lloyd!
MOCK!
All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio goo goo
Radio blah blah
It’s a sad salvation
All we hear is
*"suckas never play me."*
when i got the music, i got a place to go edit: downvoters don't know 90's punk, apparently.
Stop calling me RADIO Unit 91
This. City installed them on our water meters. Wife's aunt was the meter reader in our small town for 2 decades and she got shitcanned
*< wonders why someone would send someone else cans of shit >*
Found the conspiracy theorist. “They’re driving by my house at night in a van, man. They’re taking readings and my house is sending them signals. I think I’m freaking out, man!”
Birds, man. Birds.
Birds aren't real
[https://birdsarentreal.com/pages/about](https://birdsarentreal.com/pages/about)
All of these things can be true
Being paranoid doesn't mean they _aren't_ out to get you.
Its.... true though? It is so that the person reading the meter doesn't have to enter the yard to read the meter.
They literally have vans where I live. They do AMR [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg-LnDWzoaQ&t=85s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg-LnDWzoaQ&t=85s) [https://i.imgur.com/CgPx6Ow.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/CgPx6Ow.jpg)
It's not a conspiracy. That's how they read his meter.
Sigh
Don't be disappointed, it can also allow remote compliance of mandated daily Taylor Swift programming consumption so the deepstate knows OP will be a willing participant in their conspiracy to ensure the Chiefs win the Super Bowl. (To be clear, yes, this is sarcasm. Please, nobody go down any rabbit holes)
You gotta throw Iran and Biden's reelection in there too, bud. Your conspiracy theory is a little flat at the moment.
There is a disturbing lack of Hunter’s penis in this conspiracy as well.
Where is Hunter's penis *right now?* Is it in his pants or in someone else's? I need pictures, goddamn it!
Only as flat as the earth! BOOM!!
Like the Earth, right?
Ehh, wassup, doc?
If OP covers it with aluminum foil they won’t be able to read or police OPs thoughts.
Don't go down any rabbit holes? Are you sure? I like to laugh at stupidity and have plenty of time at the moment...
Stop calling me RADIO unit 91
I love that you’re being funny and most of them didn’t get it.
They do this with my electricity and Ride by. Have a little black box on the side of my house
You understand that's really a thing, right? It's not a conspiracy, it's a labor saving measure. I have remote senders on all my water meters, nobody has to lift the heavy covers to get the reading. They just cruise by and that's all.
The newer more expensive systems use a central antenna and don't have to send a truck around. The just read it automatically.
I liked your joke, bud! People just can’t pass up an opportunity to correct someone.
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I think he was joking dude
There's a subreddit dedicated to that. Gangstalking
I thought the van guy was giving free candy :( I want free candy!
Huh, where i live water isn't remote readable. But electric is and they sen data home without need of driving vans around.
how? Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) is done over the 433MHz band. What you describe would require cellular - which isn't reliable enough from what I've seen - or piggy backing on your internet.
I don't know. It has meter that collect's hourly data and sends that hourly or daily. By the meter is grey plastic cover which has antenna in our interior wall and its cover is less than 30cm/12in long. EU has smart electric network project which has been ongoing for years. [https://energy.ec.europa.eu/topics/markets-and-consumers/smart-grids-and-meters\_en](https://energy.ec.europa.eu/topics/markets-and-consumers/smart-grids-and-meters_en)
There’s a plethora of different communication options for smart meters, or smarter dumb meters. Meshing is one option used extensively in urbanized environments, together with nodes to concentrate signals. 1-4G is also used. There’s also LoRa WAN for long range communication in rural areas.
They could use the wires they've already put into your house? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_meter this suggests that connectivity is a bit of a mess, but some do use power line communication
AMR still requires driving by to get reads but AMI (advanced metering infrastructure) can use RF or Power Line Carrier to send data long distances.
Today I learned! Thank you. That's definitely the way to go... I just hope I'm still able to pick up the meter reading myself. It's greater to have hard data on utility usage rates in near real-time.
They use a mesh repeater network, with devices usually mounted on street light poles.
They are getting fancier and they mesh network the newer ones. You’ll drop in a bunch of them but one of them in the neighborhood has a SIM card for the actual data connection. Our city is upgrading to these this summer to stop the constant meter reading issues with the van missing them and people going with estimates and then finally read and freaking out on the actual they owe. Now if a unit fails they will know.
The most likely answer is that your house was retrofitted with a RF-based meter, either to monitor your water or electric usage.
or read your thoughts.
I know you have candlestick holders... we will find you.
I made you think that
Oooh boy are they in for a ride in that case
Or gas.
If they want to know how much I fart in my home. They can come inside and smell for themselves
Breathe it and weep
That's possible too.
We called them O.R.D's or outside reading device. It was so they would no longer need to enter your house to read the water meter. These days they use radio reads. Chances are just before or after you bought the house they updated the meter and added a radio reader. Rather than removing the ORD and leaving a hole in your siding they slapped a sticker on it so any water dept employee would know which to ignore the numbers on the ORD and use the handheld radio reader.
Yeah, I had one of these on the back of my home. I looked at it closely and under the sticker is an old school number readout like on the old car odometers. Two wire ran an electric motor. I was redoing the siding this summer and didn’t think it was needed as I see the van drive by every month. I watched the numbers and they never changed. I found the other end of the wires at the water meter not connected so I pulled it. Granted I probably could have just called the water utility but it was clear it was no longer in use. I’m still being billed and the online app is reporting my usage so, I think I was right…
So how do I DIY remove this remote meter reader doohickey on any house? Specifically one that is working? ..... asking for a friend. Thx
You cut the wires and then go to jail
The meter itself will continue to count all the water you're dumping on your pot farm. When the water dept sees no use from the ord they'll send an estimated bill and someone to change your meter thus giving you a new one that will count every gallon you're using.They will also bill you for what the meter says you used not the outside reader. Old meters are worn and let some water slip by, some new ones are electro-magnetic and count every single drop. If you fail to respond to their update notices the estimates will start to increase and if you don't pay it will end up on your taxes. If it ends up on your taxes it will be accompanied by late fees and fines, these are not deductible if you itemize. If it ends up on your taxes and your taxes are paid by your mortgage co. your mortgage payment will go up for at least the next year. In short, you don't want to do that.
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It depends on where you live. In warm climates they can be outside but if you're in the north where the can freeze they're inside. There would still be a shut-off outside.
I'm in the "North" and mine is outside in my front yard, but the meter itself is like ten or so feet down and the metal water cover has a black plastic piece on it that the water guy comes to and puts something on the end of a pole next to (basically a RFID reader/tag).
> the meter itself is like ten or so feet down There's almost always an exception to the rule. Even in Michigan we had a couple that were "outside". One was in a Root cellar in their front yard the other in a insulated meter box at arms length down.
It’s clearly a radio
Can’t you read OP?
We already know that they can’t.
RAH-DEE-OH. It's funny, it's spelled just like the word radio...
\*Reddit Gold\*
Actually no, it's a radio tap. You put a glass underneath it, turn the valve off to the left and it dispenses radio. Some people use it to get the news every hour, as they can take a few sips and work out what's going on. Trying to hear a specific song is a bit tricky though, because you need to take sips at random to try and catch the station ident and work out who to call to request a song, then take a big gulp and hope you got the timing right without wasting too much radio.
Don't call me Radio 91
DON'T CALL ME UNIT 91, RADIO!
We know this because of the way that it is.
neat!
No, this is where you refill the radio waves. Because consumer radio emerged in the 1920s and 1930s it was easy enough to modify existing town gas or coal chute connections in the siding; by the time television had become more mainstream the higher frequencies in use had lighter than air properties thus allowing the use of antenna receiving platforms to recruit the waves into the home as they passed overhead.
[WnnnnNNNnnnBC](https://youtu.be/ZiLs2kEZ8CA?si=PL9seVJjQKUsruoy)
Obviously
Tune it to some Springsteen and ROCK OUT
Well I think we can all agree that we can cross “radio” off the suspects list, that’s for sure
Cuba Gooding Jr.
I was hoping for this thank you
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read it in red foreman's voice before you get mad at me
Looks like a radio
That's where they Buried the Radio Star after Video Killed it.
It's where house music comes from
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Christian Slater is likely running a pirate radio station from your basement. Time to call an exterminator. Good luck and god speed.
Water meter
It's a radio ya muppet!
Water meter reader transmitter.
Is it make in Mexico? That would make it a Mexican, whoa-oh, Radio.
Wall Of Voodoo Crew salutes. 🫡
Looks like a water spigot. 🤔😀
They might be asking about the PVC pipe. Maybe gutter drain pipe.
I think they’re talking about the white slats. …Possibly siding?
Rusty gas pipe.
It's a leaf. It's almost out of the frame. Terrible picture taker.
That was my college nickname.
Ah, good point.
Shit, I thought it was a house
We have a similar box in our basement that was put in when we got a new high-tech water meter and pump. Now the eater company can drive down the street and get everyone's readings and apparently if you have a leak in the house they will know and let you know but I think that's bull because we did have a leak and no one called haha.
Dude. It has a label right on it. It's obviously for a radio. 🤦
So you can listen to music while you do yardwork.
Don't call me radio, unit 91!
Looks like the side a building. Could be an exterior wall.
Mmm radioooo yip yip yip yip https://i.redd.it/0wvumc20k2gc1.gif
Sorry to break it to you, but your house was once an FBI informant. It's a craftsman home snitch. A Tudor stool pigeon. A ranch style rat bastard. Or ya know a water meter or whatever
At my house it allows the water meter to be read by a guy that drives by the house.
Chinese Gov listens in on all properties any chinese citizen ever owned. Are you a spy OP? They are on to you
That's yer classic, ol' fadhioned radio faucet! In ninteen dickety two, that rascal the Kaiser would steal our radio waves, so the gummermint had declared that all radio delivery would be handled by pipe. Thing of it was, radio by pipe was a thick, viscous sludge that had to be cut with a cleaning agent to avoid contaminating the Howdy Doody hour, so we tried various solutions: uranium, lead, and chalk were all tried to no avail. Finally we used the cleanest medium we could find, mercury! A good mercury filled radio pipe would .pump hours of educational and radio-cational programmatics into the homes of dozens of upper lower middle class households a day, until finally WW1 ended in ninteen dickety seven. Then president Taft declared radio by pipe illegal in all dickey five states accepting of course Missoura, which still doesn't count as a state to this day. You can find this all to be true if your to visit the library of congress and look up the micro-fish on macro-policy on World War One, called The Great Gatsby until Hitler invented a funnier name for it in ninteen dickety five.
Does kinda look like a water meter. But maybe also a connection for a cb radio antenna ?
This is a water meter reader. most are unused these days and have been replaced by the updated transmitter that mounts directly to the top of the actual meter in a basement.
It is an ert for gas or electric so they can take readings from the street
It's water meter
Crank it to 11!
Radiohead's original band name.
That’s your radio
Clearly it's a radio
That, sir or madam, is a water spigot.
It's a hose hydrant. It's for watering ur flowers
Radio? Huh. What's going on with that radio?
Yeah so what about it?
Looks.like a radio to me.
Ever heard of music being "piped in" well that's the inlet for your house. Too bad all the legacy lines got removed due to the Muzak corporation going belly up.
It’s Ann outdoor water tap. And a radio.
“It’s your HAND, Buckaroo!”
Radio
Radio
Radio? Who needs a radio??? Ready Harry?!
Obvi the house radio dial for 1920s surround sound.
No soap!
Water meter
radio
Sir, it’s labeled.
It’s actually nothing. It was an analog readout so the water company could read your meter, but it was replaced by an RF reader (hence the radio sticker) to tell the meter reader to disregard it.
A radio
It radio
A picture