
Techno AO
One of the more amusing facts concerning cell phone health hazard is the extent to which the U.S. Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") in the States has fought to defend the safety of cell phone EM (electromagnetic) radio emissions (remember, they've collect billions of dollars in fees auctioning off the frequency rights), while at the same time pushing to educate workers in other areas as to their harmful effects. Even citizens in the States who take exams to obtain an amateur ham radio license must now study complex tables establishing the latest MPE (maximum permissible exposure) limits -- all derived from Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) data. What is particularly disturbing is that the latest standard (IEEE/ANSI C95.1-1992, plus data from the NCRP, or National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements) is itself in flux. The standards set down by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has been revised downwards -- twice! And we suspect that if politics didn't play a hand in the process, the last set of exposure limits (which went into effect in 1991), would be revised downwards again.| This writer is an experienced radio operator with over 20 years of experience, and I can tell you that even in the presence a 2000 watt linear amplifier operating in the HF range of 7,000 KHz for an hour, the effects are marginal compared to the perceivable, physiological results of 30 minutes of VHF range cell phone usage. This writer has never had a headache from using a radio transmitter - even when in relatively close proximity to unidirectional Yagi antenna. My experience with cell phones, on the other hand, has yielded many experiences of headaches; a warm, "fever-like," irradiated feeling on the side of my face; and a perceivable immunosuppressive effect. |
"Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has, as its ultimate goal, the betterment of humanity." ----- Nikola Tesla (1919) Holes in Heaven
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