Stop Smart Meters!

One of the more common misunderstandings about Radio Frequency (RF or Microwave) radiation from ‘smart’ meters, cell phones, cell towers, etc. is the difference between the frequency and power density of this radiation. 

Frequency refers to the number of oscillations per second (eg. 60 Hz (or hertz) is 60 “up and down” motions or “oscillations” per second”).  Power density refers to the intensity (or the level) of the radiation at a specific location.  Frequency is often used to identify a particular RF source (example: microwave ovens and wi-fi both transmit at about 2.45 GHz (gigahertz) or 2450 MHz (megahertz)). Different frequencies have varying impacts on plants, animals and humans, as well as non-living matter.

People often (wrongly) assume that official U.S. government guidelines for RF (power density) exposure levels reflect the best known science, rather than levels convenient for the telecommunications and utilities industries.

Ron Powell is a retired U.S. Government career scientist (Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University). He worked for the Executive Office of the President, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He currently interacts with other scientists, with physicians, and with aware individuals worldwide about the impact of radiofrequency radiation on human health. Dr. Powell has previously analyzed the risks to health, cybersecurity, and privacy from various types of smart meter.

These new charts produced by Dr. Powell shed light on both frequency and power density, to help the public understand what we are being exposed to, and how to avoid the worst of the impacts. We appreciate Dr. Powell’s independent approach and informed science, helping those of us without a Ph.D. understand the risks of wireless radiation exposure and make decisions about what levels of EMF to tolerate for the safety of our families.

For the convenience of individuals using the Cornet ED88T Plus meter, Dr. Powell shows, on the Table of RF Power Density and Electric Field, the levels reflected by the LED indicators on this meter when purchased from StopSmartMeters.org.

You can download the full guides in pdf format right here:

Ron Powell RF Frequency Table
Ron Powell RF Power Density

The Cornet ED88T PLUS is currently in stock in the Stop Smart Meters! Store and ready to ship (free 1-3 day shipping). A Red Case Logic zipper hard case is optional. The Cornet is essential personal safety equipment and makes a great science-based gift to help protect the health of those you love. For gifts of independent science and EMF awareness that support grassroots advocacy (not wireless proliferating Amazon) check out the Stop Smart Meters! Store.

Stop Smart Meters! was founded nearly 10 years ago in Santa Cruz County and it was with great pleasure that we returned to our hometown on September 9th, 2019 to co-host EMF’s & Health – Where Do We Stand?, featuring Olle Johansson, one of the world’s foremost EMF health experts visiting from Sweden. We encourage you to watch the presentation above and share it on social media (using this link).

We are very grateful to Olle Johansson for making time in his busy schedule to speak at our event.

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The new Stop Smart Meters! 4th Edition 2019 Public Health Warning 4×6” recycled, union-printed cards are now available for purchase in 50-packs in our online store for widespread distribution.

 The new cards have been updated with language and imagery on the 5G crisis, as well as feistier language about community organizing and resistance.

These are now shipping worldwide and great to hand out at farmers markets, health food stores, laundromats, cafes etc, and especially in front of cell phone retail stores. Awareness of wireless health damage is a necessary precursor to action. Please inquire about discount rates for bulk purchases and for low income individuals and communities.
Thank you for helping us get this important message out. Order a pack to distribute in your community today!

Happy Spring Everyone!

Let’s get real for a moment– the telecom industry and the FCC have declared war against us, and we need to get serious about fighting back, and get a lot more radical, if we have a chance of winning this war and foiling (pun intended) their plans.

It’s time for a day of action against the telecom industry, highlighting the enormous damage being done by telecom to the natural world through irradiation and greenhouse gas emissions. There is power in having a linked day of action to show the breadth of resistance across the country, and particularly in getting people in smaller communities the confidence to stand up and demand change.

In 2014, our network organized an “Action Day to Stop Smart Meters” together with a website, support materials, and press releases.  There were more than 30 different protests on that day and we posted photos of each on the website.

There were even some disruptive protests, and this made waves and generated press coverage that helped galvanize public awareness of the seriousness of this issue.

Now life on our planet faces an existential threat from internet satellites, millions of new 5G antennas, and more 4G towers being forced into previously low EMF rural areas.  No one who has worked on this issue in any serious way for any length of time can doubt that the government agencies who regulate telecom are corrupted and owned by the industry they pretend to regulate. They don’t care if they violate the law or even kill you (or the whole planet). 

But yet we continue to focus 90% of our efforts to “persuade” these corrupt institutions, when the public has the ability to stop this holocaust directly, if we only realized our strength. Our network has promoted and assisted in communities taking direct action to stop wireless proliferation since 2010.  Watch the video here.

Possible protests, in ascending order of effectiveness/ radicalism/ legal risks:

1.  Have a protest with signs in a prominent location (i.e. Apple/ Verizon store) – do not block entrances or sidewalk, hand out flyers and speak to people- Optional fun: a doctor we know suggested people dress up as cancer patients and hang out in front of the cell phone store (risk of arrest – very low, impact- high!)

Or: have a smash-in where people bring their unwanted wireless junk, put it in a thick plastic bag to avoid flying fragments, use eye protection, and smash with a hammer! (risk of arrest, slightly higher but still very unlikely if you comply with police)

2. Get into a telecom-related event (public or private) and disrupt the event with a series of loud, vocal protests against 5G. (risk of arrest- low- if you leave the event when they tell you to)

3.  Organize a group and disrupt an Apple/ Verizon/ ATT store etc. – when we did this at the Verizon store in 2014 in San Francisco they did NOT call the police because they do not want headlines about the health risks of their technology. (risk of arrest- low if you leave when (and if) the police arrive, medium if not. Max sentence- misdemeanor trespassing, small fine, maybe a couple of hours in jail- impact if you get media coverage- high!).

4. Organize a group and blockade a telecom store with signs and perhaps arm tubes to make arrest more difficult (risk of arrest- medium to high although the store may opt to just close down and avoid negative headlines.) Max. sentence- misdemeanor interfering w/ business, small fine, maybe a couple of hours in jail, impact if you get media coverage- high!)

5. Organize a group and physically (and peacefully) blockade WTF installation crews– call the paper (risk of arrest- high, misdemeanor traffic violation if arrested, small fine, couple of hours in jail, impact if you get TV news to come- high!)

6. Some have remediated/ mitigated existing WTF’s (risk of arrest- high if caught, possible prison sentence). Watch new Icelandic film “Woman at War” for inspiration. Though we are not encouraging you to carry out such potential acts, we also refuse to condemn them.

With any effort like this, it will require brave people to take these actions, and to open a space in society where policy progress can be made. No major movement that has challenged the powers-that-be (and especially a trillion dollar international industry) has succeeded without a potent show of civil disobedience and public unrest. If everyone is polite and restrained, many will assume this issue is not that big a deal! Taking direct action changes the power dynamics, and forces the industry to respond to our narrative rather than the other way around- strategically crucial to make our eventual (and inevitable) victory that much sooner.

We look forward to taking action with you to make our homes and communities safer on May 15th, 2019.

Stop Smart Meters!