Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-09
meterradio: the pre-flight check for meter listening
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 surfacedmeterradio 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.
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Explicit Chemistry, Side A
August 9’s newborn domains include a wedding pressed into a playable record, an AI journal built across 62 memoryless sessions, 127,861 volunteer-verified license-plate-reader reports, and an eight-foot beach-wedding cross engineered for Gulf Coast wind.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-09 Domain Arrivals issue.