[ILUG] OT: internet access/MMDS

[Shane Dempsey]

Well , not wanting to turn this discussion into one about the 
safety of high frequency electromagnetic radiation , what bernard is
talking about is the difference between fooling around with your body's
electrical system for a while and the immense damage that 900MHz radiation 
at relatively low power outputs can do . I don't think that a mobile
phone can generate even a watt of ouput but waves are small enough in
oscillation period to penetrate cell walls etc. It is never a good idea 
to step in front of a microwave link. I don't know anything about the 
dead pigeons outside TCD but I understand that a friend of mine who 
studied there tried to set up a mw link from his house to the college
I think that someone mentioned this during the RF discussion that we had a
couple of months  back....

	...shane

On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Bernard Tyers wrote:

> 
> well, 
> last march  (and j0n will back me up on this) the wit amateur radio group
> went on a competition, using 3.5MHz (mainly) tx'ing average power of 1KW.
> the way the antenna was diected, we were in the direct path of the max
> tx'ed power. I can say for the whoille weekend I had a splitting headache,
> and for about a week after.
> 
> and that was only long wave radiation, if we were using 900Mhz? heavens..
> 
> 
>  rgrds, ...bernard..
> 
> Bernard Tyers. B.Tech.Elec. Mail: btyers at snet.wit.ie, Web: snet.wit.ie/bbt
> 
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