Smart Meters blasting the 900 Mhz band 

No health studies were done before they were allowed to use such a wide band width. In such close proximity to humans. It’s effect in my home is certainly noted on my wifi signal when these units pulse their signal out, it drops my wifi signal to 30% strength. Mostly when I am within 10-14ft of the power meter. Is this a health concern? Maybe for some!

You guys think this is bad wait till 5G telephone comes out it's supposed to be on the millimeter band

Glad I seen this it's why I hear voices cordless phone

Excellent video and technical background, right on the mark! These meters were originally authorized to operate at power levels not to exceed 100mw, the manufactures knowingly ignored this assuming after market saturation they would be granted a waiver. Many users of wireless speakers and headsets have been complaining of random loud 'pops' in their speaker/headphone, if your wireless speaker or headphone uses 900MHz, this is what you are hearing, the data burst on your speaker channel frequency. I'm also a BGE power meter user and although the only interference I have had is the random wireless headphone 'pop', my power meter did catch fire 2 years ago. I had heard of it happening but I shrugged it off as non-sense until it happened to me. Luckily we were home at the time we heard the loud bang on the wall followed by sparks shooting out of the box. I opened the main breaker to the house and called the fire department. Fortunately our meter is enclosed in a metal box outer enclosure separating it from the house wall. The county fire chief who responded to my meter fire acknowledged several of these meters had burst into flames across the county. BGE showed up 2 hours after the emergency call and repaired the damaged installation and replaced the meter with the same model. I never received any apology, acknowledgement, nor a followup call from BGE for the fire.

the 900mhz band is known as an ISM band and is used by many different services from medical to utility and ham radio.Ham radio we are secondary users but everyone who uses the band must accept interference from any other device using the band.

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I will be flying quads soon, and was just about to commit to 900Mhz. I intend to fly from inside the house using a rooftop antenna. But man, if these smart meters are blasting at 1 and 2 watts, that's a big problem. Maybe i need to look at 433 Mhz. Thanks for making this video.

I use a RF shield placed around the outer case to direct the radio signal outward.

It means that it you don’t pay the bill, the press of a button shuts off everything remotely.

Trying to blanket the entire country...yep and they have. 900-930 Mhz is mostly gone these days. Never heard of one that uses 2.4 Ghz. The mesh is interesting, tons of small packets on narrow bandwidth over about 902 - 927 Mhz and then big bursts over that entire band every minute or so. Appears to be low power.

It also uses PLC and that is basically using your power lines including your house as antana 217hz to 8.34HZ it's what the 902hz-928hz breaks down to through harmonics.

Hello and thanks for this video and the explanation. Please note that there is an other danger from these meters which is the health effect of RF EMF exposure. I don't know if you belive there is such an effect, but I can tell you I am an EHS person and I can feel this radiation. It cause me (and many other) pain and lots of health effect. The deployment does not only use up the 900M and 2.4GHz bands but also cause alot of health issues to people that are living next by thsee meter. Please make sure that you don't have any beds or working desk next to these meters, and consider using RF protection to block at least some of the RF for getting into your house. Thanks a lot... I will share this very good technical video on my site and facebook amirb

Frequency hopping and spread spectrum for something like this seams obnoxious! Furthermore with such mass deployment I think the FCC should require these companies to use a LICENSED frequency band and not an unlicensed band like the 900MHz ISM band that so many of us enjoy through various wireless applications. If its destined to go to the internet maybe these things should just connect directly to cell networks via EDGE/HSPA/LTE or optionally if the home owners approves through a standard WiFi connection....I hate spectrum polution, I'm not paranoid about "getting cancer" but I am pissed that what little spectrum ameteur RF operators (whether it be HAM, FPV, Wireless networking nerds like myself, etc.) have is being invaded by companies like this.

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Can you do a tutorial on how to set the Spectrum analyzer Explorer unit or set its ideal reference point. Thanks.

The aliens are in cahoots with the power company to drill into your brain with 900mhz RF so they can lay their eggs in your cortex!

I live in norway and i have refused that smart meter nonsens. I fear they might cut my power

Will these create noise on my cb base unite?

Wtf the old Motorola next telephone's work on this band When they're in their direct talk mode which doesn't require a cell Carrier It's digital it works on the same band as these things it seems like And also the frequency hop just like you say So I don't know how they can have these 2 things working in the same band

Mine did the same 900 v/m I was shocked!!!!’ I have a rf meter. G

So living in a mobile home park this horrible, high- pitched, squealing noise is never going to stopl because they are everywhere?

great at nothing like microwave RF exposure so some utlity employee is too lazy to walk to determine how much the company is making.

See also Smart Meter Interference to 902-928 MHz ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9U_3L8ZRC5g.html

I never knew that these transmitted on 900mhz and 2.4ghz! I have a BGE smart meter and a smart thermostat and I didn't know they talked to each other. I live in an area where houses are spread apart and there are lots of trees so I wonder how that effects the signal. I need to purchase a spectrum analyzer.

I see a nice jammer in your future...I'm offgrid, I don't have one! Never will !

I’m not a techi but what about all of the other stuff were exposed to? Chemicals in our food and the water we drink. This crap is going on every where I look. Big companies making money without concern for what they are doing to us all

these smart meters are often a source of QRM for the amateurs on all bands (in my place where i lived, Kyiv Ukraine, works for all post-soviet countries I GUESS)

Fact is the transmissions on smart meters are NOT invasive NOR are they prohibitive. the transmissions are generally low power - transmit a few yards, they are short lived, most transmissions last a short while, even when polling. FIRST, if you are flying a RC device you are generally prohibited from flying it in Business District and where homes are. there are any NUMBER of open spaces or MODEL airfields to FLY your RC device. you can also move up to 5.6 Ghz transmitter to avoid interference in the CROWDED 900 Mhz band. BTY , your Part 15 unlicensed radio devices cause the most Interference and Spurtious emmisions, such as 900mhx telephones, Home WiFi, garage door opener, remote doorbell, car remote.......ECT.

santa cruz ca - pge zombie workers grounded 1 of 3 high voltage wires. result is random noise - 20 volts inside a vast number of rooms.

well...you need to live 24hrs a day together the meter to really are exposed to RF dangerous radiation

I put a mesh on my meter. Cut down the noise 90% in my Icom.

where did you buy that RF reader?

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problem is there is NOTHING you can do about it

Its yagi attena and meter pre amps tran ducer

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What's the output power of that transmitter? How sensitive is it's antenna?

You sound happy about this invasion of privacy and safety.

Wrap it in foil.... problem solved!

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Well I guess that the question is "Is this LEGAL?" have they purchase the rights for this type of frequencies?? can any one find out? because the 900 band is mostly cellular... & in the 4G... there may be some room to literally start a lawsuit..

How much is this all costing us? They wire all that hardware into the load side and charging all of us and then sell the info to whoever wants to see what your wife is doing at 2pm while you're at work.

This is constructive criticism That video was so one-sided not even funny did you get a reference from the front yard of the signal range and compare that to betzaida center of your backyard and then up to the meter what was the exact frequency range it was on and how many let's call it Millie W is it out putting also when you say a lot of data no and it doesn't redundantly send the signal from what it gets and sends it back out that would be so much information overload and that's not how they work it will do that when it is basically setting up Amex Network the further out it goes so that way the signal can get back to the grid faster in the city environment now they're not really talking to each other except for a Howdy Doody every so often it only acts as a repeater when another one says I can't reach the grid can you please forward my message and it gets a reply back saying I sent it and they received it it doesn't send it to every terminal it will move to another one if that one has problems too That the power grid and everybody fit explain Smart Meters very well for smart thermostats and I'm not talking about the Android kind I'm talking about the power company supplied ones If you understand how electricity is produced and how it goes down the grid I suggest you watch a RU-vid video on that with that being said if you use a little common sense when the power Generating Station it's not running at 100% capacity all the time and it in fact has to be adjusted from let's say 1% to 100% output on demand when everyone gets home and turns on the air conditioner or a heat pump whatever stove at night that are electric it has to ramp up production from before that load request came in from everybody and has to do it very fast because the power line cannot have a voltage sag because that can actually trip off distribution lines and it can't be too much power that too much power on the line Back in the day when it first started we didn't have high power consuming items or a huge increase in load and they could watch the meters and sensors at the station and they would have enough time to ramp up power or slow the generator down as we've evolved in a very short amount of time on the grid we have come to create huge swings in demand and the generator stations are getting that data fast enough even through the New Age Technology computers to ramp up Etc because there's so much on the line that Etc blah blah blah your smart meter transmission says hey I was at a low load now I'm at a high load and that RF frequency gets the station faster even over the line if it has to versus the Generating Station have to wait for a power said to start and then ramp-up generating capacity in that short amount of time can cause a grid failure So a smart meters actually something we want to have and no it's not affecting your received capability that would be on your antenna probably being right next to the power meter i mean mean come on... so in a way think about it this way you and all your neighbors have a garden hose hooked up to a central water pump and that pump has to keep a constant volume of pressure and water without blowing up one of the garden hoses you need to explain that And in fact they've gone further which I'm okay with it as long as they install it properly which my electric company didn't furnaces have crappy Transformers in them and underpowered the line switching and everything when it was on AC there was a Hydra on that little Transformer and it would essentially voltage sag and cause the thermostat to reset which caused short cycling and in the thermostat you could allow the power company when it was under extreme load your smart thermostat when the grid as under extreme load change change your temperature to take a little bit less load off the power grid so that way you don't have like a brownout like in California or elsewhere where there was such a high demand on the power grid that it just shut down that's why they had rolling blackouts say from 68 to 70 if they had the smart thermostat and smart that would never happen again I could go on and on but I almost think I'm talking to a wall people don't think anything through or use any effort to figure something out it's just I don't like it Okay as a ham radio operator and into signal analysis since I was a wee boy and understanding technology in-depth and even the power grid

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Stop all this paranoia.. it won't harm your health. Take good care of yourself by walking an hour a day, eat healthy, more vegetables and less sugar, sleep well, and manage stress with meditation or yogic breathing like pranayama and enjoy life to the fullest and not live in constant stress of danger from radio waves and it should be all good!