Re: Dangers of SSTCs ! ! ! Measured

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Original poster: "Stephen Conner by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <steve-at-scopeboy-dot-com>

At 12:24 11/03/03 -0700, you wrote:
>Original poster: "robert & june heidlebaugh by way of Terry Fritz 
><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rheidlebaugh-at-desertgate-dot-com>
>
>Not to be critical, but a mobile phone is not a cell phone. My mobile phone
>puts out 35 watts of power and you dont put it in your ear and talk to your
>thumb.

I assume you mean a ham transceiver with a phone patch or something. My 
guilty secret: I used to be crazy about ham radio when I was in my teens. I 
had an assortment of gear that I used regularly including a 5 watt 430MHz 
handheld, a 50 watt 70MHz transceiver and a 100 watt HF (3.5-28MHz) rig. I 
must have been exposed to plenty RF because all my antennas were on the 
roof about 8 feet away from the operating position. Some other hams that I 
knew said that too much RF could give you a headache. I certainly 
experienced this, but I can't prove cause and effect: Other things give you 
headaches too, after all. Anyway, that was 10 years ago and I have no brain 
tumours (that I know of) yet. The worst I got was some RF burns off the 
morse key, when I wired up my HF antenna wrongly.

Steve C. (ex GM0TET)