Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: westmark!dave@uunet.uu.net (Dave Levenson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Cellular Phones Frying Your Brains Message-ID: Date: 11 Nov 89 00:26:35 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA Lines: 23 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 505, message 6 of 7 In article ,john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) writes: > 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. I think a very likely explanation is that whether or not there is long-term damage done to the human head or the transmitter, the immediate problem with operations close to someone is that the signal will be absorbed to the point where the call gets dropped. This creates for the user the impression that the phone is not working properly -- and leads to complaints that come back to the manufacturer via the dealer etc. Dave Levenson Voice: (201) 647 0900 Westmark, Inc. Internet: dave@westmark.uu.net Warren, NJ, USA UUCP: {uunet | rutgers | att}!westmark!dave [The Man in the Mooney] AT&T Mail: !westmark!dave