There is no evidence that microwaves cause anything but heat dissipation damage. A microwave oven operates on about 2 GHz and a fair bit of energy must leak out of some of these as they have an ERP (Effective Radiated Power) of about 1 KW or so. Mobiles operate on 0.9, 1.8 and 3 GHz (I think) Microwaves are officially from 1 GHz up (UHF below this) I cant imagine a LAN link having an output power of more than 100mW or so. A high gain dish would focus this by 10 dB or so which would give an ERP of 1W, hardly enough to do much harm R
Quoting David Pan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Agreed. > > My understanding is that 2.4 GHz would put it somewhere between radio waves > and microwaves. > The energy per photon of this radiation is less than IR or visible light. > So it would be classed as non ionising and should not cause DNA alterations. > If the quantity were great enough, there would be a warming effect only and > I've never heard much in the way of proof of the adverse effects of > prolonged tissue warming. > I suspect that the field strength of urban AM radio stations is pretty high. > Although their adverse effect are more related to the crap spoken by Alan > Jones. > > David Pan > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Horst Herb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "General Practice Computing Group Talk" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 2:05 PM > Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] wireless lan > > > > On Sunday 04 February 2007 11:21, ash wrote: > >> i have recently set up a wag54g linksys, and the instructions suggest > >> that the aerial should be a minimum of 20cm away from me for "safety" > >> > >> what i would rather know is whether there is a recommended distance from > >> anyone with experience; how close would YOU feel comfortable > > > > wireless is 2.4 GHz spectrum = microwave > > impact on you cells is mostly heat if enough energy is transferred > > > > 20+ cm should be safe unless you are boosting your signal or use a high > > gain > > highly directive antenna > > > > Horst > > _______________________________________________ > > Gpcg_talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gpcg_talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
