Interesting! You must have a really OLD cell phone. My Nokia cell phone runs on a 3.5V battery with 600mAH capacity and provides 8 hours talk time, which is probably a conservative number (8hrs) from the manufacturer. Doing a quick calculation, one can show that the total power consumed by the cell phone is about 220mW, which includes the processor, memory, display, speaker, microphone, built-in clock, and the antenna power. This indicates that the antenna radiated power is a small fraction of the 220mW total power. Besides, the cell phone runs on low voltage. As an RF engineer, you should know what that means.
George ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Luksich Mark-TXP763 Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:52 AM To: Benoit Nadeau; Pettit, Ghery; James, Chris; [email protected] Subject: RE: mobile phone safety As an RF engineer I can safely say that they are a hoax's The average microwave oven is 1000 W The average cell phone is 300 mW A low power microwave oven is 600 W soooo... it would take 2000 phones to generate the energy of one small underpowered microwave oven. If they had placed the popcorn on the deck of a Navy ship and aimed a fire control radar at it; then you would see the pop corn pop -- or as I have seen the occasional sea gull cook. Mark ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Benoit Nadeau Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 10:08 AM To: 'Pettit, Ghery'; 'James, Chris'; [email protected] Subject: RE: mobile phone safety Bonjour It is a fake; it is coming form a company that sells Bluetooth ear plugs. Did you ever count the time it takes in a microwave oven to ear the first pop compare to the time you see the grain pop in the video? But, as I say to my wife, these scary messages that come from time to time about the possible bad effects of RF energy are job security for me… Bye, Benoit ====================================== ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pettit, Ghery Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:56 AM To: James, Chris; [email protected] Subject: RE: mobile phone safety Having tried to pop popcorn in an underpowered microwave oven once, I think these videos are hoaxes. Ghery Pettit ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James, Chris Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 11:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: mobile phone safety Anyone care to comment on whether popping pop-corn with mobile (cell) phones is a reality? A number of video clips are appearing on the internet demonstrating it but it could of course be contrived: http://www.koreus.com/video/telephone-portable-mais-popcorn.html <BLOCKED::http://www.koreus.com/video/telephone-portable-mais-popcorn.html> Chris ________________________________ This message (including any attachments) may contain confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose. If you are not the intended recipient, delete this message. 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