[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/6/02 at 12:00 PM wrote: >Granted, I >wouldn't want my baby sleeping on the gateway all day long. Stick it in >your garage or server room and its effect is minimal. Your standard 30mW >gateway is going to radiate a lot less than your cell phone or even your >portable phone base station. Or for that matter, it is probably less than >the cell phone tower nearest you. So, if you want to get paranoid make >sure you throw out all your portable phones, your cell phone, your >microwave and at the same time either do the same to all your neighbours >and blow up the local cell tower or move into a cave without any >neighbours.
It's not unreasonable to ask this question: the failure to ask these questions before deploying microwave equipment of any scale is certainly a problem that the cell industry is facing, credibility of the reports about cancer and cell phones notwithstanding. In an era of wireless, it's hard to question received wisdom. I've had cancer myself (not brain, thank God), and so am naturally a bit cautious. When you look at the amount of radiation emitted per cubic centimeter at distances of just a few inches from the most powerful legal Wi-Fi transceivers with omnidirectional antennas, it's really negligible. Get a few feet away, and we're talking tiny, tiny amounts rotating among many frequencies. It's somewhat higher than pure thermal noise, but it has many characteristics in common... Frankly, I have more concerns about long-term CRT (ELF/VLF) exposure, given some of the inconclusive but interesting studies in those regards. I use an LCD panel now and for the last couple of years, which I have to say, studies aside, makes me feel like I'm reducing the *potential* for harmful exposure. And without making Randy sound silly, the fact that he is getting headaches from a cell phone cannot be related to microwave radiation. If the macroscopic effects were high enough for that, his brain would already have been boiled away. The headaches are most likely caused by certain frequencies or volumes that don't sit well with his auditory system. I know plenty of folks who can't talk for long periods on a regular telephone for that reason. -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
