Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!texbell!attctc!vector!telecom-gateway From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Cellular Phones Frying Your Brains Message-ID: Date: 9 Nov 89 19:16:11 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 19 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 501, message 4 of 9 In article , moscom!pyrite.telesci! kindred@cs.rochester.edu (David L Kindred (Dave)) writes: > My $.02 -- is the through glass antenna warning because of harm to a person > sitting too close, or because the inherent equivalent circuit of the > human body would interfere with the through glass coupling?? Now that makes more sense. As a matter of fact, someone from Stanford left a message on my machine (a voice follow-up :-)) indicating that he felt that the concern was really over harm to the cellular transmitter due to high VSWR caused by the detuning of the antenna by a human head. This would be a real concern. But I'm afraid that the real furor is from dweebs who hide under the bed over anything with the word "radiation" associated with it, even if it comes from a micro-power communications transceiver. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !