you may not have a smart meter yet but...

[Prepper1]

[Tartar Horde]

I wonder if those mobile phone jammers you can buy on those "dodgy" sites will work in scrambling the info they send.

[Skean Dhude]

Tin foil around the antenna works fine. Phone jammers target specific frequencies and these are different frequencies.

[Tartar Horde]

Tin foil around the antenna works fine. Phone jammers target specific frequencies and these are different frequencies.

Cheers SD
bit of a daft question here but serious
does it matter if tinfoil is shiny side in or out

[Skean Dhude]

Nope.

[Luci_ferson]

cut the antennae off. it was vandals.

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it snapped.
the kids accidentally must have done it.
ive no idea , I never noticed it missing etc.

[Scythe13]

I think we'll be taking as much stuff off the grid as we can. Phones can be charged from a car battery with a solar panel on it. Just add a cigarette lighter socket to the battery and add the adjoining charger to it, and you're golden. We also have 2 Freeloader Pico's to charge phones and the alike.

Might be getting some more panels, hopefully by the time it gets to the smart-meter readers. They'll just think we use electricity for the heating, but we're getting a log burner (if it's viable with our flue/chimney bit) in the next few months. So we should be able to have about 90% of stuff off the grid. Only the fridge and kettle will still be on the grid haha. By then laptops should be off the grid as well.

[BeardyMan]

Tin foil around the antenna works fine. Phone jammers target specific frequencies and these are different frequencies.

They're also illegal are they not?

Yup, tin foil works perfectly. Stopped the GPS on the works van from highlighting my location and various driving infractions too.

[Tartar Horde]

They probably are Beardy Man, isn't everything.

[BeardyMan]

They probably are Beardy Man, isn't everything.

Most of the fun things!

I looked into signal blockers etc in my fight against paying for the TV license. I proposed to block out the BBC frequencies from the signal (that I didn't want to receive anyway) but turns out blocking any sort of signal like that is illegal.

Easy to do, but illegal. One way round it is to pump out your own signal on the same frequency, but then you need some decent equipment (and probably a license!) and forgiving neighbours! Although if it's on the 3g / 4g network then you're going to be hobbling your own comms (mobile phone)