You’re right and you’re wrong: I measured my new “smart meter” that the electric company put in recently and found it gave off 10 milligauss at 6 inches (which IS ALOT), but at 15 feet away there was no measurable reading (it drops at some power [square?] of the distance).
Unless you sleep next to the device, there shouldn’t be any interference. Besides, there’s no scientific consensus that electro-magnetic fields are cancer causing. Several studies on interference of cellphones from Scandanavian countries pointed in that direction, but there are other studies that don’t show any causation.
Cheap cell phones given to little children are another matter. Because children are more susceptible to brain cancer, their walking and talking on cellphones held up against their ear could be a problem. In my testing I’ve found that many of the ugly bluetooth ear receivers eliminate nearly all of the EMF.
I didn’t like the polite but secretive meter reader installing the “new electricity meter” (aka smart meter), but I think the major problem with them would occur when the Democrats shut down power generators and they just cut back your electricity fait accompli.
I’d focus more on getting away from the grid and getting little kids to wear those Bluetooth ear receivers and to not get scoliosis by carrying 200 pound school book bags.
Good gaussmeters can be bought for around $100. Mine is made by AlphaLab in Utah. Its a lot of fun to measure friend’s microwave cookers, old electric typewriters, cellphones. When bored, you can always put it on your car’s dashboard and drive under the big power lines and watch the meter peg.
I’m guessing by your post that you don’t mind the fact that your home is now under the ‘Big Brother’ monitor. (And unprotected from ‘hackers’).
Personally, Hop - I have NOTHING to hide - but just the idea that someone uninvited can be ‘in my home’ - is very intrusive to me, and a violation of my right to protection from invasion of privacy.
If your gaussmeter measures an H field accurately at 900 or 2.4 GHz, I want a) the model number, and b) the stock ticker symbol of the company who makes it, because they are gonna make BAZILLIONS.
Of course, no such instrument exists, and your gaussmeter is useless for such purposes. You should be using a field strength meter.