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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-09

meterradio: the pre-flight check for meter listening

meterradio.com ↗ · Useful Tools · score 86.0
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A practical guide and lookup tool for finding out whether a gas, water, or electric meter transmits—and whether an RTL-SDR can hear it.

Why it surfaced

meterradio starts with the question most SDR tutorials skip: is there anything to listen to? It counts 933 meter radios from FCC filings, says 645 are receivable in the 902–928 MHz band, and warns that a spinning-disk meter, the wrong antenna, or a radio on another frequency can waste an entire weekend.

Explicit Chemistry, Side A

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This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-09 Domain Arrivals issue.