...and i fully expect Government will find a way to to keep RTS running for another year to 2026
The Droitwich transmitter will be in operation for at least another two years. The RTS system is used for many other purposes than just energy metering...
The Environment Agency use RTS, as do a couple of other entities. Every 'legacy' communications system that was supposed to have been deprecated is still mothballed and ready to be cranked up again as required. Even the Loran-C station at Anthorn is still banging out a signal, almost a decade after Loran-C was allegedly switched off.
So they won't be broadcasting R4 Long Wave after June '25 but the RTS will still be running for a long time yet. They will reduce the TX power as AM needs a lot of 'oomph' but the PSK signal only needs a few percent of the power of an audio transmission. I can receive and decode both German and Hungarian RTS signals almost 900 miles away from their transmitters.
Which is exactly why many new RTS services are being rolled out around the world...because it works.
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Don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player. I DON'T work for or on behalf of EON.Next, but am willing to try and help if I can. Not on mains gas, mobile network or mains drainage. House heated almost entirely by baby dragons.
@retrotecchie so are customers being lied to, so to increase the uptake of smart meters (surely not😄😇) or for any other reason best known to authority?
Current Eon Next customer, ex EDF, Zog and Symbio. Don't think dual fuel saves money and don't like smart meters. Chronologically Gifted. If I offend let me know by private message, but I’ll continue to express my opinions nonetheless.
The real reason is money, no doubt. All RTS users which include not only the suppliers but the DNOs, plus other agencies have to pay to use the service. That has to come out of their operating costs. Smart metering is paid for by the punter out of their Standing Charges.
While the transmitter will still be functional, presumably its signal are at various frequencies and codings, so the RTS signal must be unique so that customers are not impacted by other transmissions. And we know that the off peak times are not consistent across the UK.
so is it a case of RTS sending out lots of signals and the discrimination is contained within the customer’s equipment?
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