v056pxb4@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu (John P Weiksnar) (03/19/91)
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. Thanks! ------------------------------------- John P. Weiksnar v056pxb4@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu
erk@americ.UUCP (Erick Parsons) (03/24/91)
>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. --------------- 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. -- Erick Parsons, Sacramento erick@sactoh0.sac.ca.us <-- Right off the freeway -- {ames att sun }!pacbell!sactoh0!pacengr!americ!erk <-- At the end of the road --