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From: erk@americ.UUCP (Erick Parsons)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: >>> WANTED: Rural Mailbox TELEMETRY SYSTEM
Message-ID: <erk.1624@americ.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 91 16:58:26 GMT
References: <66127@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
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>In article <66127@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v056pxb4@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu (John P Weiksnar) writes:
>
>	This is what I would like:
>
>		recommendations
>		experience
>		brand names
>		magazine articles
>
>		or any ideas regarding a rural, side-of-the-road
>	mailbox (you know the kind)   to   100-meter-away-house
>			TELEMETRY  SYSTEM
>	to alert anxious parents when the letter carrier
>	pushes down the little red flag to announce the mail is IN.
>
>	Whew!
>
>	In other words, is there an easy, cheap ( < $100) system
>	to handle this? Solar-recharge on the mailbox transmitter
>	would be a convenient feature, along with a fairly reliable
>	FM transmission frequency to avert middle-of-the-night false
>	alarms.
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	I'm not sure of the price for one but there are many car
	alarms that have a remote reciever to alert the owner to
	a possible break-in. This would be an easy solution as it
	is low voltage and probably low current without the use of
	a speaker. (but a speaker could be fun :-)

	Interesting sidenote about car alarms. THEY ARE USELESS !!
	I was riding with a friend whose little car alarm DE activator
	key ring thingamajig died. We drove out of a busy parking lot
	with the alarm BLARING. No one even winced.

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