Are 5 GHz telephones safe?

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Greysky

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Just got a new DSS 3 station 5.x GHz cordless telephone for the house. Boy,
does it work great, but the thought has occurred to me that these handsets
are emitting microwave radiation, right next to the brain, and we all know
what microwaves are good for .... making popcorn :) SO, am I and my
innocent family turning out brains into popcorn with these things??
 
Greysky wrote:

Just got a new DSS 3 station 5.x GHz cordless telephone for the house. Boy,
does it work great, but the thought has occurred to me that these handsets
are emitting microwave radiation, right next to the brain, and we all know
what microwaves are good for .... making popcorn :) SO, am I and my
innocent family turning out brains into popcorn with these things??
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What is wrong with a cable phone ? It never has old
and/or empty batteries.

Rene
--
Ing.Buero R.Tschaggelar - http://www.ibrtses.com
& commercial newsgroups - http://www.talkto.net
 
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 18:59:59 +0100, Rene Tschaggelar wrote:

Greysky wrote:

Just got a new DSS 3 station 5.x GHz cordless telephone for the house. Boy,
does it work great, but the thought has occurred to me that these handsets
are emitting microwave radiation, right next to the brain, and we all know
what microwaves are good for .... making popcorn :) SO, am I and my
innocent family turning out brains into popcorn with these things??

What is wrong with a cable phone ? It never has old
and/or empty batteries.
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Because they fall off the table when you walk into the other room? Though
I don't have either (tossed the land lines in '99 and '03).

--
Keith
 
"keith" <krw@att.bizzzz> wrote in message
news:pan.2005.02.20.18.24.59.277559@att.bizzzz...
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 18:59:59 +0100, Rene Tschaggelar wrote:

Greysky wrote:

Just got a new DSS 3 station 5.x GHz cordless telephone for the house.
Boy,
does it work great, but the thought has occurred to me that these
handsets
are emitting microwave radiation, right next to the brain, and we all
know
what microwaves are good for .... making popcorn :) SO, am I and my
innocent family turning out brains into popcorn with these things??

What is wrong with a cable phone ? It never has old
and/or empty batteries.

Because they fall off the table when you walk into the other room? Though
I don't have either (tossed the land lines in '99 and '03).

--
Keith

You have no table or other room? Must be a small house!
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Ken
 
I read in sci.electronics.design that Ken Taylor <ken@home.nz> wrote (in
<HX5Sd.2783$1S4.324253@news.xtra.co.nz>) about 'Are 5 GHz telephones
safe?', on Mon, 21 Feb 2005:

You have no table or other room? Must be a small house!
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Maybe he lives in a barrel, like Diogenes.
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk
 
Greysky wrote:
Just got a new DSS 3 station 5.x GHz cordless telephone for the house. Boy,
does it work great, but the thought has occurred to me that these handsets
are emitting microwave radiation, right next to the brain, and we all know
what microwaves are good for .... making popcorn :) SO, am I and my
innocent family turning out brains into popcorn with these things??
Click to expand...
Hey, watch out for exposure to 500,000 Ghz radiation - actually known to
turn human skin brown!

--
Luhan Monat (luhanis 'at' yahoo 'dot' com)
"The future is not what it used to be..."
http://members.cox.net/berniekm
 
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 08:57:35 +1300, Ken Taylor wrote:

"keith" <krw@att.bizzzz> wrote in message
news:pan.2005.02.20.18.24.59.277559@att.bizzzz...
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 18:59:59 +0100, Rene Tschaggelar wrote:

Greysky wrote:

Just got a new DSS 3 station 5.x GHz cordless telephone for the house.
Boy,
does it work great, but the thought has occurred to me that these
handsets
are emitting microwave radiation, right next to the brain, and we all
know
what microwaves are good for .... making popcorn :) SO, am I and my
innocent family turning out brains into popcorn with these things??

What is wrong with a cable phone ? It never has old
and/or empty batteries.

Because they fall off the table when you walk into the other room? Though
I don't have either (tossed the land lines in '99 and '03).

--
Keith

You have no table or other room? Must be a small house!
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What don't you understand about walking?

--
Keith
 
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 20:17:11 +0000, John Woodgate wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that Ken Taylor <ken@home.nz> wrote (in
HX5Sd.2783$1S4.324253@news.xtra.co.nz>) about 'Are 5 GHz telephones
safe?', on Mon, 21 Feb 2005:

You have no table or other room? Must be a small house!

Maybe he lives in a barrel, like Diogenes.
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Nah, if I did they wouldn't be taxing me like I was BillG.

--
Keith
 
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 16:14:39 -0500, Spehro Pefhany wrote:

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 20:17:11 +0000, the renowned John Woodgate
jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that Ken Taylor <ken@home.nz> wrote (in
HX5Sd.2783$1S4.324253@news.xtra.co.nz>) about 'Are 5 GHz telephones
safe?', on Mon, 21 Feb 2005:

You have no table or other room? Must be a small house!

Maybe he lives in a barrel, like Diogenes.

An orker?

http://www.speff.com/ork.gif
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Nah, I work with cow-orkers, but I'm not one of *them*. ;-)

--
Keith
 
After a long conversation you can get earache due to poor circulation.
 
Popcorn may be going a bit too far.

However, there is a growing body of knowledge that links the incidence of
the rare near-brain tumour known as an "Acoustic Neuroma" with the
increased
use of mobile phones and cordless telephones.

Yeah, typical Chicken-Little-ish assignment of blame based on correlation.

Have you ever considered that the correlation is that those who have a
predisposition to this particular flavor of cancer also have a
predisposition to engulfing their life in their cell-phone connection?
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http://www.hearinglossweb.com/Medical/cellAndAcNeu.htm

Damn lies, or statistics?
 
"Greysky" <greyskynospam@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:C5YRd.1852$OU1.1845@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...
Just got a new DSS 3 station 5.x GHz cordless telephone for the house.
Boy, does it work great, but the thought has occurred to me that these
handsets are emitting microwave radiation, right next to the brain, and we
all know what microwaves are good for .... making popcorn :) SO, am I
and my innocent family turning out brains into popcorn with these things??
Click to expand...
Microwaves opperate at 2x10^14 Hz, this is 42,850 TIMES your cordless phone
(1GHz= 10^9 Hz). Plus you oven is most likely 800-1000Watts, and you phone
is few watts at best.

Dwayne
 
Greysky wrote:
Just got a new DSS 3 station 5.x GHz cordless telephone for the
house. Boy,
does it work great, but the thought has occurred to me that these
handsets
are emitting microwave radiation, right next to the brain, and we all
know
what microwaves are good for .... making popcorn :) SO, am I and my

innocent family turning out brains into popcorn with these things??
Click to expand...

Does it matter, anyway - after a lifetime of laying asbestos conduit,
wiping lead cable joints, using carbon tet to clean switches, surviving
a few big car crashes and last year being opened up for colon cancer
surgery, I dont think it matters a damm. Probably the only hazard is
when you play "find the phone" and fall over something.
73 de VK3BFA Andrew
 
MILLIONS of times stronger than the emissions from a cordless phone.

Reports referring to putative causes of VERY RARE neoplasms are simply
speculation.
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
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I think the real problem is that nobody is quite sure at what power level
cell damage occurs and over what span of time. Please take care and think
twice before you extend that mobile call a second longer than is required.

For myself, I worked on the DEW line
http://www.radomes.org/museum/scripts/alaskadew.cgi, and on military
troposcatter in a number of different parts of the world.

Shor nuff, some years later, a golf ball size acoustic neuroma. A good
surgeon and some luck, still here.
 
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:05:10 +1100, Bill Bailley <JustMe@Home> wrote:

MILLIONS of times stronger than the emissions from a cordless phone.

Reports referring to putative causes of VERY RARE neoplasms are simply
speculation.
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.

I think the real problem is that nobody is quite sure at what power level
cell damage occurs and over what span of time. Please take care and think
twice before you extend that mobile call a second longer than is required.
Click to expand...
You better line your house with lead and never step outside then.
 
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 08:38:11 -0600, TCS wrote:

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:05:10 +1100, Bill Bailley <JustMe@Home> wrote:


MILLIONS of times stronger than the emissions from a cordless phone.

Reports referring to putative causes of VERY RARE neoplasms are simply
speculation.
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.

I think the real problem is that nobody is quite sure at what power level
cell damage occurs and over what span of time. Please take care and think
twice before you extend that mobile call a second longer than is required.

You better line your house with lead and never step outside then.
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For ordinary RF, just aluminum foil will work. But be sure to put it shiny
side out!

For that matter, just a foil hat will protect your brain! ;-P

Cheers!
Rich
 
DEW is/was perfectly capable of cooking you alive at many metres from
the antenna. Even a cellphone, let alone a cordless phone, won't do
that.

I heard a story about some guy who worked on those big radars. The
crux of the story was that he carried along a ball of steel wool. Before
climbing up onto the superstructure, he'd toss the ball of steel wool
in front of the antenna - if it didn't burn up, it was safe to climb
up on the structure.

Cheers!
Rich
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Close, but not quite. The steel wool was to light your cigarette from.

Bill.
 
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:35:21 +0000, Ian Stirling wrote:
TCS <The-Central-Scrutinizer@p.o.b.o.x.com> wrote:
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:37:03 GMT, Rich Grise <richgrise@example.net> wrote:
....
For ordinary RF, just aluminum foil will work. But be sure to put it
shiny side out!

For that matter, just a foil hat will protect your brain! ;-P

Don't forget the undies.

Do you place those over the foil?
And used or not used?
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I think that's a matter of taste.

Cheers!
Rich
 
Don Pearce <donald@pearce.uk.com> wrote:
<snip>
I suggest you try and find any evidence that any mobile phone,
anywhere has ever caused anybody actual harm by way of its RF field.

All you will find is urban myth.
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It's caused me harm.
By a bizarre coincidence of events, a mobile ringing on top of a CDROM
drive with its cover off caused the drive to eject, and push a coffee
cup over on my head.
 
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