Oh, the pointing out was not the game over, but even without hostile actors, it
would not bode well for amateur radio if fixed or mobile transmitters in common
use could cause smart-grid malfunctions.
When ARRL entered that arena, there was hostility from industry, which thought
it wanted minimal restrictions. But when the positions the League was bringing
forward were demonstrated with modeling and a better description, and the IEEE
EMC Society also weighed in, the industry appreciated the input that had the
effect of improving product.
Within the EMC Society there is a technical group focused very much on
intentional EMI, so the scenario you describe is very much a possibility.
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From: Wes Stewart <n7ws@yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2022 9:28 PM
To: n2ms@arrl.net <mstangelo@comcast.net>; rfi@contesting.com
<rfi@contesting.com>; Hare, Ed, W1RFI <w1rfi@arrl.org>
Subject: Re: [RFI] Another Solar Panel RFI System
If a ham took the grid down, imagine what a hostile actor could do. Pointing
out a vulnerability shouldn't be a game over, but a wake-up call.
Wes N7WS
On Friday, December 23, 2022 at 04:13:09 PM MST, Hare, Ed, W1RFI
<w1rfi@arrl.org> wrote:
....
There is one other major standards effort that I didn't mention, and that is
the standards work in the immunity of the developing smart grid. ARRL funded a
consultant to do years of work on the working groups, and he and I drafted
studies that showed how much immunity was needed to keep the grid from failing
from the presence of field strength that would be encountered from fixed
amateur stations and from VHF and UHF mobiles of all types. If the smart grid
were deployed and amateur radio took it down, it would be game over, so this
was critical work.
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