Another development programme that took far longer than expected. Where was it 55 years ago when it would have been useful?
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Feb 26, 2026
Last reply: 3 months ago
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What I miss and can't understand. The money went decimal and all the colourful slang names went away and nothing has replaced them.
We lived with tanner. bob, half dollar, etc. Now, we just have fifty P, ten P, etc. Very dull.
The 'device' I mentioned looks like this:
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The purpose is this:
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22 of these have appeared in recent days around the borough of North Tyneside UK.
My water meter relies on LoRaWAN base stations to send its readings, I've not spotted any on the lamp posts yet.
You have lamp posts?
While on a lunchtime walk, I spotted this one 1/3 of a mile from my house ... I might dig out the RTL-SDR and see if I can decode anything.
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