User's Manual

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Your Recharger
Your Recharger collects your TV viewing and radio
listening information as well as recharges the Personal
Meter battery. At the end of each day, you place the
Personal Meter into the Recharger so all your TV
viewing and radio listening for that day will be
included. To make it easy, we ask you to place the
Recharger in your bedroom where you can easily see it
when you first wake up.
The Recharger also displays special messages to you
whenever you place the Personal Meter back into the unit. It will tell you how many
points you have earned for wearing your Meter for the current and previous days. It will
also tell you what your point total is for the current week and what it was for the previous
week.
There are two buttons located near the display on the front of your Recharger. They are used only for
testing by our technicians and will do nothing when pushed.
The Household Collector
The Collector is plugged into an electrical outlet. It collects viewing and listening data
from each Recharger by communicating with these units through the electrical wiring
in your home. It also transmits a silent signal that can be detected by your Personal
Meter when it is within your house. This allows us to separate your media use at home
from your media use in other places.
The Collector then sends your household’s
information to our main computer once each day
by making a very short cellular telephone call,
lasting just a couple minutes very early in the
morning, usually between 4AM and 6AM. We
can then combine your information with
information from other households in your area
to produce the TV and radio ratings.