Smart Meters - Public Service Commission

Dear Barbara Boxer:
I’m currently living in a corner of my house the size of a single bed surrounded by aluminum foil. This blocks
the Wi-Fi from my neighbors’ houses and ambient EMF.
The Wi-Fi fields and other EMF make me sick. I’ve spent the last eight months extremely ill and spend much of
my days in state parks where there is no Wi-Fi or electricity. I’ve had to stop working.
There have been nights at 10:30 pm, when I’ve been driving around, looking for a place I could sleep with no
Wi-Fi, and there was no place to go. If Smart Meters are not stopped, there’ll be no place for me to be.
European countries have standards for health for EMF safety. America does not. I may be a canary in a gold
mine but I’m an early warning sign for everybody else.
All our bodies are delicate, organic bioelectrical systems and not made to be constantly bathed in the electrical
frequencies that Wi-Fi and Smart Meters put out. It’s so toxic, and this needs to be addressed so that I can
come out from behind the foil screen. There’s been no place to turn. Society has had nothing to offer me in
terms of help.
This is an urgent and life-threatening issue. Please act on behalf of the well-being of your constituents.
Sincerely, J
One year later, Aug. 19, 2011: Recently I tried to spend the night in a neighborhood that had Smart Meters, in
a home that was on the delay list and did not have one. After 8 hours, I was so ill I had to drive out of there at
2:30 in the morning. If I had stayed for another 10 hours, I would have been vomiting and convulsing. An optout
plan is not a viable solution for health concerns. Smart Meters should not be put in until the health issues
are resolved. J
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Driven Out by Power Line (PLC) Signals
Jack (not his real name) has been sensitive to wireless transmitters for well over a decade. For that reason he
stays away from the cities. He and his girlfriend spend their winters in Arizona, and the summers in eastern
Washington State.
In the spring of 2011, they traveled to their rented house in eastern Washington. When he arrived, he could
immediately feel something had changed. It was as if a cell tower had been erected nearby, but he could not
find one. It was unlikely to be the neighbors, since they lived on a large lot and he could still feel it when he
drove some distance away. It seemed to be everywhere. Jack’s girlfriend stayed in the house while Jack drove
back down to Arizona.
After asking around, they found out that the local utility had swapped out all of the electrical meters over the
winter. The new smart meters communicate with the utility’s computers by sending signals through the power
line back to the substation. This is called power line communication (PLC) and is mostly used in rural areas.
The specific system used is called TWACS. This system works by transmitting pulses 120 times a second. Each
pulse contains a brief signal of higher frequencies. Since all meters share a common wire, only one meter in the
area can transmit at a time. Each household meter can transmit for only a few minutes each day, or even only
once for several days.
The pulses travel for many miles and back feed into all houses on the grid. It makes no difference whether it is
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