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#4463145 - 02/27/19 12:31 AM Re: Health Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation Exposure [Re: THX-1138]  
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One thing I love about this place is learning how Europeans, in some ways, live so differently. smile

But then NYC is like a different world as well, at least to what I'm used to. One day I'd like to visit Europe.



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#4463190 - 02/27/19 07:13 AM Re: Health Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation Exposure [Re: THX-1138]  
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Our first microwave oven was an Artica and was so heavy it took 6 men to lift it, it used a cavity magnetron to generate the frequency of the EM radiation to cook the food, it was roughly 6kW input with about half that in the cooking chamber. We also had a spare magnetron which sat in a box in the cupboard.

When I started work at Decca Radar in 1973 I started to learn about magnetrons as they were used in radars which made me go and dig out the spare magnetron and have a look at it and written on the side of it on a label was 6kW input power and a resonant frequency of 932MHz. Many years later when the UK got it's CB bands allocated at 27MHz and 934MHz I thought the higher one was close to the frequency of the magnetron, then the UK had to give up the 934MHz CB band as it was being allocated for cell phones. While the frequencies are close and the magnetron for the microwave oven is within the cellphone band the power levels are vastly different but still gives me thought about using a cellphone.


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#4463192 - 02/27/19 07:19 AM Re: Health Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation Exposure [Re: Ssnake]  
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If an activist tells me that we're too many people on this planet, and if he's making a compelling argument, I might look the other way if he wants to lead by example.

Opa keeps saying it's about time we had another war there are too many people around. But then again he does talk a lot of bull.

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#4463195 - 02/27/19 07:45 AM Re: Health Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation Exposure [Re: Alicatt]  
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Originally Posted by Alicatt
While the frequencies are close and the magnetron for the microwave oven is within the cellphone band the power levels are vastly different but still gives me thought about using a cellphone.

Well, that's kinda the point.The power output is three to four orders of magnitude lower. It CAN and DOES heat up the surrounding tissue, but so does taking a warm shower or rolling up under a blanket, and again the amount of heat transferred (or "not lost" in the blanket case) is orders of magnitude bigger. And yes, you should't take a bath in excess of 40°C for an extended time, it's not like this is one of the health hazards that the bathing industry tries to hide from you.

The thing about orders of magnitude, with kinetic energy: If I hit you with all my force with a ping-pong ball, it's not going to hurt much. If I hit you with a baseball bat, the amount of kinetic energy is about three orders of magnitude higher, and it becomes a potentially deadly attack. If I run you over with a car at "ping-pong ball max velocity" (another increase by three more orders of magnitude), it will rip you apart - and possibly get me killed in the car, too.

A few more OOMs, and we're talking about an asteroid impact on this planet, then a planet-on-planet impact. It gets quickly out of hand.

#4463198 - 02/27/19 08:22 AM Re: Health Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation Exposure [Re: THX-1138]  
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It's never stopped me using a cell phone, just gave me thought about it, it's mW Vs kW phone to microwave oven in this case.

This microwave oven was from the late 1960s and was in our home later when my parents bought the hotel we moved it there too but it was a big brute of a machine and not very precise, for somethings you could not set the timer to a small enough increment of time. we ditched it and got a Sharp combination oven, while it had a smaller capacity it was much more useful in day to day use compared with the Artica, Artica was a commercial brand/model made by Raytheon in the 1960s and was about 8 times the power of a modern microwave oven.


Edit: While working with radars we had to wear a lead lined apron to protect our little swimmers and we also had leaded glass inserts to put in place of hatches and covers on the radar transmitters so we could work on them while they were running.

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#4463232 - 02/27/19 03:28 PM Re: Health Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation Exposure [Re: THX-1138]  
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Myself being involved with the telco side of broadcasting I am reminded that the cautious choice was always to leave the router in a place where you did not spend too much time. As a former Aircraftman in the RDAF I am aware of studies linking increased ocurrence of cancer in former radar operators to long term exposure to unsafe levels of microwave emissions. Just one such example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19035449


Equipment can be shielded to negate side effects caused by microwave emissions, living creatures cannot.

With 5G arriving, Internet of Things will more and more become reality and this means that not only are there many more cellualar base stations to handle the traffic, the traffic will also increase hundredfold, as the chips in fridges, heaters, cars, TV's eventually implants in our bodies are nattering constantly, all in very close proximity. This, I feel is what makes the situation different to today where we are still, a lot of the time a fairly long distance away from emitters.

I don't know if there is cause for alarm but would it not be sensible to look for any potential cause-effect, for example the IQ of young Danish people being screened for possible military service has fallen for the first time in many years and no one knows why. If Bees are getting rarer, is it because they have been messed up, or their habitats messed up by radiowave emissions?

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#4463280 - 02/27/19 08:51 PM Re: Health Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation Exposure [Re: THX-1138]  
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