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Old 09-23-2025, 09:02 AM
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Originally Posted by sowtime444 View Post
The Villages is using the wrong kind of card for gates. The current read range for a Villages gate card is about 2 feet. A real gate pass is UHF and has a read range up to 15 feet. You could leave a UHF card inside of a little clear plastic sleeve on your windshield and it would work from a distance. Attention Required! | Cloudflare
The big square grey readers have been able to read UHF since about 1987 I believe. So if they just started issuing UHF cards it would make everyone's life easier.
1. What makes you believe a device built to read a 125khz rfid was built with the circuitry to also read an uhf signal?

2. With all the time and effort that has gone into looking for long-range alternatives, is it really possible that the District and their vendors simply missed the use of a different card?

3. To answer another post: No, a simple reader/writer for 125KHz rfid cards would not be able to program a 900MHz uhf card
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