Warning meters in 300,000 homes could stop working

Typical poor and Miss information.  BBC news is becoming more like getting the news from YouTube.  Can'y always be trusted and half of the time is not verified.



From my understanding what will happen is the meter will charge the customer at the higher rate permanently.  I bet an enconomy 7 heater at 7pence per kWh will not seem so economy at 40pence per kWh

It's the BBC who are running the RTS transmitter that's about to be switched off!

You would think that someone would have a copy of the RTS specification, and could say definitively what the receivers will do when the signal is turned off.  I was under the impression that they could be sent a program, which they would continue to follow until told otherwise.

It's the BBC who are running the RTS transmitter that's about to be switched off!

You would think that someone would have a copy of the RTS specification, and could say definitively what the receivers will do when the signal is turned off.  I was under the impression that they could be sent a program, which they would continue to follow until told otherwise.

Simon Barker said:

It's the BBC who are running the RTS transmitter that's about to be switched off!

No, it’s not as the BBC do not own or operate any transmitters.

The Wychbold station is owned and operated by Arqiva.

I think you're right. The meter registers and customer's load aren't directly switched by the radio signals. Instead, the radio is used to load the meter with a switching regime. When those old valves at the transmitter finally fail, nobody will lose supplies and nobody will get charged at the higher rate for off-peak load, everything just carries on as if it were a dumb economy seven meter. The clever people who designed this system made it resilient