Probably gets anonymously injected into the media by the cell companies trying to make muni-Wifi a worse alternative to paying $59 a month for mobile data service...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Langseth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 11:46 AM Subject: RE: [WISPA] School WiFi / Wireless info ? > I would suggest going there with some "pretty pictures". You can tell > anyone anything, and they may say they understand, But as House says > "people lie". Go there with some graphs of Spectrum Analysis of things > like a AP at 25' versus a Microwave at 25'. Ask the parents how many of > their kids care cell phones. Even go there with a sweep of the a large > spectrum of some area. People that are worried about wifi "poisoning" > probably got the concern citizen look from some other source, (News > Media/tabloids, etc) and are oblivious how what else puts out > "Radiation". > > Ryan > > On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 10:31 -0500, Jonathan Schmidt wrote: > > It is clearly a logical quandary to prove a negative and it is known by > > those who have other agendas as a technique to inject fear, uncertainty, and > > doubt. > > > > Non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation has the "death" word, "radiation", > > and easily causes fear due to the lack of response to the request to "prove > > that it isn't harmful." > > > > However, so is a lit match, and with a lot more electromagnetic radiation > > power than an access point...and, in fact, a flashlight, too. > > > > The exercise that some, as in the "case study", go through to "prove" that > > the levels are safe just feed the FUD since no level is unsafe up closer to > > the levels found inside a kilowatt microwave oven, most of which leak more > > into a kitchen than an AP does at 1 foot and at the same frequency. > > > > It apparently cost Motorola millions to counter the mischief makers over > > cell phones who tried to bring it to its knees with pseudo-scientific mumbo > > jumbo that got lots of press. > > > > It doesn't appear that any satisfactory response can be mounted to those who > > use these techniques...except time...time as taken by the coffee industry > > when the nut cases finally gave up and the power industry who are on the > > back side, now, of the power-line problem. > > > > . . . j o n a t h a n > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Peter R. > > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 9:36 AM > > To: WISPA General List > > Subject: Re: [WISPA] School WiFi / Wireless info ? > > > > Smith, Rick wrote: > > > > >I plan to use an FCC Certified solution. That's not the issue. The > > >issue is, is "standard" documentation from Ubiquiti good enough as to > > >radio strengths, etc for the documentation to prove "it's not harmful" > > >? > > > > > >isn't there a standard FCC document that states all this ? > > > > > > > > No standard FCC doc on this. > > > > There was a alarge study done in the UK recently. > > (Google would be your friend) > > http://airbears.berkeley.edu/wlan.shtml > > http://www.wlana.org/learn/health.htm > > www.3gamericas.org/pdfs/Comsearch_whitepaper_*health*care_wp_TP-100322-EN.pd > > f > > www.red-m.com/downloads/case-studies/BAA%20Case%20*Study*.pdf - > > > > -- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > -- > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.6.1/777 - Release Date: 4/26/2007 3:23 PM > > -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
