Re: Long range wireless or other solution?

["Bob Worthy" <securinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What is your budget and do you realize that even with the best equipment the
catch rate is only guaranteed at about 70-80%? With mediocre equipment, the
rate drops drastically with moving vehicles (even at 25 miles per hour). You
may want to consider something that gives you a negative image of the plate
to eliminate any light from washing out your picture at night ie tail and
brake lights. This could get relatively expensive to do it properly. You
could still spend alot of money and not get the result your looking for if
you cheap out. You could buy alot of mailboxes for what this could cost you.
Did you piss someone off or is this through out the neighborhood?

"Joe Bramblett" <kd5nrh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.11.29.15.55.47.961126@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Looking for something in a battery powered or 12V low-light camera with at
> least 500ft range, or at least 6 hours built-in recording at no less than
> 10fps. No need for pan/tilt/zoom or anything else fancy, just good enough
> to get a license plate on a slow moving (25mph tops) vehicle when placed
> so that it will be directly behind the vehicle. Based on the road layout,
> the vehicle should be within 20-30yards of the camera and facing almost
> directly away at one point, and the plate should be within a roughly 10'
> wide area unless they run off the road completely. Adding in the desire to
> get the mailbox itself in frame, and we can call it 15' minimum required
> FOV at 60-90', with resolution good enough to read a (most likely) Texas
> black-on-retroreflective-white license plate.
>
> We've been hoping to ID some mailbox vandals, but they seem to be bright
> enough to avoid any boxes that are close enough to the houses to make them
> easy to catch.  I've considered the digital wildlife cameras with IR
> flash, but I'm not sure that they would record enough to get the vehicle
> as it turns away.
>
> Of course, they never show up when I'm sitting in a camouflaged blind with
> a nightvision scope and flash camera.  I'd hate to use a visible-flash
> camera unattended and find the mailbox smashed and camera stolen, though.
>
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