james007 wrote in message ...
Bob Adams wrote:

Wasn't the original plan for Oysters a card that you could just wave in
the air somewhere in the general vicinity of a reader - in order to
speed up passage through the gates - instead of "Make sure you place
your card flat on the reader and don't slide it around" ?

At one station I've seen, there was a handwritten notice on the customer
information board that said (roughly):

"Oyster Card customers: your card is not a swipe card.
Please PLACE it on the yellow pad.
Plinky plonky, not swipey-swipey."

!!

!! indeed.

I've found that the radio in the validators is powerful enough to read
an Oyster at a distance of up to one inch. I've tried it at Canary
Wharf and the gate flashed an 00 and opened for me quite nicely.


J

Brad