[Hidden-tech] Cell Phones and EMF Risks Study

[ussailis at shaysnet.com]

Yes, the sun does radiate at low frequencies and the whole spectrum up to
UV and probably gamma radiation. Most of the solar energy is in the visable
region, we think. At least that is what penetrates the atmosphere.

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After reading all the emails, I have some more comments:

1. Microwaves do not appear to cause ionizing radiation. That's the stuff
thyat is known to cause cancer. The field from your 60 Hz electric power
line also does not cause ionizing radiation.

Ionizing radiation only occurs at the higher frequencies, where quantum
lines exist. Only 2 exist in the microwave band; a hydrogen line at 1.4 GHz
(I believe it is a spin flip), and the water line frequency at 22.235 GHz. 

2. There have been several articles on thre subject of authorship of heath
issue articles in pear reviewed medical journals in Microwaves Mag, and
Antennas & Propagation Mag. These are the general interest journals of two
of the IEEE societies, Microwaves and Antennas & Propagation. The upshot of
the articles is the impact on heath consequences of microwave energy is
highly dependant on who funded the research. With a bias toward those
interested in the cell phone industry. Yes, there "might" be a problem. The
10 year study in Sweeden points to that.

3. The power that the body (or any object) receives varies as 1/(distance)
squared. This means that buckets of power a thousand feet away can have
much less effect compared to a headset next to your head.

Bluetooth runs at a low power level. I believe 30 and 100 mW (milliwatts ot
1/1000 of a watt). Typical WiFi runs 100 mW. Some units run 200 mW. If you
are worried, then go to the WiFi setup program and tell the computer you
are in the EU.

Why? Because the max power allowed for the applicxation is 1 Watt in the US
& Canada, 100 mW in Europe. I know of no laptop WiFi units that run more
than 200 mW.

The power from a cell phone depends on how far you are from the tower. It
has power mamagement circuitry in the phone, which cranks up the power if
the received signal from the tower is weak. I believe the max is on order
of 2 watts.

This is a good case for having an outside, roof mounted, antenna for your
cell phone in your car. It keeps the antenna away from you head, and the
car body offers a bit of shielding. The phone also works better, so the
power management circuit lowers....etc.

4. The 60 Hz line

All the wires that you come near should be in pairs, that is one for each
side of the line. If that is the case, then the wires become a
"transmission line," similar to the transmission line from an antenna to
your TV (that's before cable). Ideally, transmission lines do not radiate.
I would expect a bit of radiation from the AC lines in a house, but very
little.

High power lines radiate more because there is high power. But they are
placed farther away from where people can get to, so the radiation is
reduced (remember that 1/distance squared thing above) 

Some have said that the 60 Hz line in the typical home radiales magnetic
fields at a level of up to 1 Gauss. This mayby true, but the magnetic field
of the Earth is about 1 Gauss. Although that is a static field, it doesn't
bother us.

5. Magnetic vs electric fields

This is a BS thing that even catches electrical engs. I have seen a prof on
the web talk about a radiated magnetic field.

If the field is radiated at all, it is electromagnetic. Both the magnetic
and electric fields are combined into this one field. The study of this
started as a way to explain the propagation of light. Maxwell brought
together the individual workings of many scientists in the mid 1800s into a
set of equations that describes light propagation. But, he found that there
wasn't a frequency dependance in the set of equations. Hertz took note and
decided to generate low frequency waves which we call radio. 

Even any radiated 60 Hz field is electromagnetic. If you read about a
radiated magnetic (or electric) field, suspect BS.

6. I have read that there appears to be a problem with the modulation of
radio signals, such as the pulsing that goes on in PCS cell phones. (PCS =
Sprint, T-Mobile, and perhaps others) 

These phones use coding and time slicing to achieve many calls on a limited
number of frequencies. They call it Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)
and Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA). There is another that is used
called frequency... In short they change frequency, send bits of a call at
different times, and use coding to send the information to the right
address. And you thought you were talking in "real time." HA!

The study appread to be valid. But after reading the source of funding
study, I wonder.


Jim Ussailis
jim at nationalwireless.com


Original Message:88
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From: Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 16:04:02 -0400
To: ussailis at shaysnet.com, sales at gaiahost.coop,
hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net, heller at deepsoft.com
Subject: RE: [Hidden-tech] Cell Phones and EMF Risks Study


At Fri, 2 Nov 2007 10:07:11 -0400 ussailis at shaysnet.com wrote:

> 
>    ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee.
>    ** You too can help the group
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>    ** If you did, we all thank you.
> 
> 
> I plan to read that report, but here is something that I have observed
over
> the past few years:
> 
> The top engineers in the RF field that worked mostly in the low frequency
> (LF) thru high frequency (HF) region (about 100 KHz to 30 MHz) are now
> getting old. Typically they started in this business before WWII, and were
> major players in the field during the War. Typical age at death is around
> 100. A few make it to about 102. Some pass on in their 90s.
> 
> While I am very concerned about microwave energy, I wonder about the lower
> frequencies. I should live so long.

The sun puts out a huge amount of the "lower frequencies", which is
commonly observed as the  'static' between stations on the lower-bands
(eg AM and FM broadcast, CB, and 'Short Wave' bands (eg common HAM
radio frequencies).  I think most lifeforms on Earth have adapted to
these frequencies over the past million or so years.

OTOH, the higher frequencies (microwaves), do tend to 'cook' things. 
And the high intensity and more 'concentrated' engergy put out by
something like a cell phone is somewhat different that the random 'low
level' background RF 'noise' produced by the sun.

> 
> Jim Ussailis
> jim at nationalwireless.com
> 
> PS Keep in mind, that WiFi band is the home frequency of the microwave
> oven. This frequency is not very far removed from the typical cell phone
> frequency (2400 MHz vs 1900 MHz).
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Charles Uchu Strader sales at gaiahost.coop
> Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:33:13 -0400
> To: Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net
> Subject: [Hidden-tech] Cell Phones and EMF Risks Study
> 
> 
>    ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee.
>    ** You too can help the group
>    ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>    ** If you did, we all thank you.
> 
> 
> I thought other hidden-tech'ers would be interested in this.
> 
> ...
> 
> Cell Phones and EMF Risks Study
> 
> There are finally some long term studies coming out and the results are
> not good.  Please pass this on.
> 
> A condensed look at the picture:
> 
> - long term cell phone use (for as little as one hour per day) for 10
> years results in a 20 - 30% increased risk in two types of brain cancer
> 
> - there is clear information that children are more at risk and should
> never use them
> 
> - the studies impact relates both to cell phones, but also common
> cordless phones and other EMF emitting devices (like high power lines)
> 
> To read more here's a good article about it, plus a link to the more
> detailed reports coming from the Bioinitiative Working Group, which is
> the international group of scientists that have done this research:
> 
> good article on study: http://www.alternet.org/environment/65137/
> 
> the study: http://www.bioinitiative.org/
> 
> Also, here is a link to data on radiation levels coming from a range of
> cell phones:
> 
> http://earthpulse.com/src/subcategory.asp?catid=4&subcatid=4
> 
> 
> Now what to do with that information?  And how to change?
> 
> ~Charles Uchu
> 
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