Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller

2011-07-21 Thread Sean Linton
Good to know, I wont be trading in my net just yet then. Cheers Sean On 21 July 2011 11:20, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: So my verdict, so far, is there seems to be a possibility of

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller

2011-07-20 Thread Sean Linton
/frequency.htmlCaryl Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 15:34:30 +1000 From: qu...@laptop.org To: s...@lpnz.org CC: olpc-ocea...@lists.laptop.org; i...@lists.sugarlabs.org; sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org; deve...@worldclassproject.org.uk Subject: Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Turn your frequency generator into a super

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller

2011-07-20 Thread Caryl Bigenho
, 21 Jul 2011 08:45:24 +1200 Subject: Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller From: s...@lpnz.org To: cbige...@hotmail.com CC: qu...@laptop.org; olpc-ocea...@lists.laptop.org; i...@lists.sugarlabs.org; sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org; deve

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller

2011-07-20 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: So my verdict, so far, is there seems to be a possibility of reducing the number of mosquitos in an area with the right frequency but it will not eliminate them entirely. You will probably still be bitten.  Go

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller

2011-07-13 Thread Rodrigo Pérez Fulloni
Very curious. Reading this I remembered a program for my old Palm OS powered PDA with the same objective. I don't know the effect in mosquitoes, but I remember my dog went crazy with the sound. lol -- Rodrigo Pérez Fulloni - http://www.rodripf.com ___

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller

2011-07-08 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 01:53:22AM -0400, Chris Leonard wrote: The article probably also fails to mention that peer-reviewed scientific tests of this concept prove it to be useless. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/290 I disagree. Those tests were of 20-70 kHz, not 45-67 Hz. I've

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller

2011-07-08 Thread Caryl Bigenho
: olpc-ocea...@lists.laptop.org; i...@lists.sugarlabs.org; sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org; deve...@worldclassproject.org.uk Subject: Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller The speakers don't work very well at the frequency range

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller

2011-07-08 Thread nanonano
/James Cameron wrote: Is there any evidence base for repelling mosquitos using low frequency sound? --/ There is an Article that says that the experiments done with low and high frecuencies failed:

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller

2011-07-08 Thread Sean Linton
Thanks Paolo, didn't see your message there, good to have some more info. Sean SL Otago, New Zealand On 8 July 2011 20:58, nanon...@mediagala.com wrote: ** * James Cameron wrote: Is there any evidence base for repelling mosquitos using low frequency sound?

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller

2011-07-08 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 08.07.2011, at 08:08, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Let's put this to a test! With all the flooding we are having in Montana this summer the clouds of mosquitos are really fierce! Our family is visiting with their PCs and I have a Mac. We can try this in the next couple of days and

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller

2011-07-08 Thread Chris Leonard
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:05 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 01:53:22AM -0400, Chris Leonard wrote: The article probably also fails to mention that peer-reviewed scientific tests of this concept prove it to be useless.

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller

2011-07-08 Thread Walter Bender
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 08.07.2011, at 08:08, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Let's put this to a test! With all the flooding we are having in Montana this summer the clouds of mosquitos are really fierce! Our family is visiting with

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller

2011-07-07 Thread Chris Leonard
The article probably also fails to mention that peer-reviewed scientific tests of this concept prove it to be useless. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/290 cjl On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 1:34 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: The speakers don't work very well at the frequency range