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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:20:25 -0500
- From: "Rudolph R. Zung" <ru+@CMU.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Car Phone Experiences Wanted
- In-Reply-To: <1993Jan26.163728.12919@cs.uwp.edu>
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- > ... deleted prolog...
- >The main reason I'm posting though is Today this morning had someone on
- >who was convinced that cellular phones are causing brain cancer in CEOs of
- >major companies. The person from University of Wisconsin said he had been
- >on a committee that set up standards and had compiled various studies and
- >then set a power rate 10 times less than what they thought was dangerous
- >and then cut that by 50 times for individual use and the phones in use now
- >use even less power. He said there's less danger than a garage opener,
- >but there will always be somebody that's on the other side.
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- The thing about causing brain cancer is not so much using a cellular phone
- as it is where the antenna is located. There is much advice indicating that
- in the use of a handy-talkie Ham radio and portable CB radios, the antenna
- should be as far away from the head as possible, since if is from the
- antenna that the RF emanates. It would seem that use of a portable cellular
- phone would be more dangerous than the use of a mobile cellular with its
- antenna mounted on the rear window.
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