Something to be wary of

[Mr. bone]

I dunno, I've worked almost directly under radio towers for 32 years and have no health issues.

...Except for a third eye...

...and bad hearing from 32 years of rock and roll in my headphones

[JS Sanders]

<< That (video) is too funny. >>

Sadly, it is a rare occasion when I do not hear a cellphone ring when waiting to pipe at graveside.

Someone talking on a cellphone is virtually 100%.

Slan,
steve

[Riverkilt]

Aging olde geezer that I am I still prefer the phones with wires. Mine seldom rings and when it does its usually a robodialer. So no need, and therefore no risk, for cellphones.

I seldom have a client in therapy anymore that their cell phone doesn't ring and they interrupt to check it, or even take the call. Its their time so I just wait it out.

I do have to admit I've developed a very nasty habit around cell phones. Every time I pass an oncoming driver yacking away on a cell phone I toot my car horn ever so briefly as we pass. Hardly ever fail to get a flinch, and hopefully a brief return to reality from the other driver.

Gratefully, my kilt hose, sporran, belt, vest pockets et.al. remain unencumbered by a wireless yacking device.

And, whenever I try to call someone on their cell phone they are out of minutes or not taking messages. If I do manage to get through the reception is very poor around here...still struggle to figure out why folks pay so much every month for devices that just don't work well - if at all.

But, I'm olde....

Ron

[Coinneach]

How about putting the cell phone in a cigarette pack...they're lined with foil, right? Then everything can go in the sporran, and cancer is not really the issue anyway.

[Weasel Mender]

If anybody has a cellular phone that works satisfactorily while wrapped in aluminum foil I'd sure like to hear of it.

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Ian,
This was too good to pass up, several years ago while doing call testing in a switch re-home project we were required to make cell phones change registration from 1 switch to another. We tried everything, including wrapping the damn things in foil to make them change, :crap:without sucess they still worked too well so yes a cell phone WILL work wrapped in foil, but only when you don't want it to

Hijack complete we now return you to the real thread

Weasel

[ForresterModern]

Only the frequency differs, they're both electromagnetic wave carrying energy from one place to another and the body is not opaque to them.

I'll still be careful, just in case.

Mark

Technically neither radiowaves or xrays are in the visible spectrum, but like any form of radiating energy (regular light included) there are risks to absorption of that energy by the body, if the quantity is significant. Also, as one moves away from the source of the radiating waves one actually logarhythmically diminishes the risk and amount of absorption----i.e., double the distance away from the source and your cut the absorption risk by a factor of four (one quarter of the absorption risk if you move from one foot to two feet from the source). Xrays are high energy waves that generally pass through human tissue (thats what give you the picture on the xray film---the rays that passed through you to reach the film) but some are absorbed and in those cases cause changes at the atomic level (electrons shift orbits---etc..., that kind of stuff) which can alter the chemical makeup of the molecules they interact with when they are absorbed. Hence the genetic risk of altering your DNA. Light waves, including infrared and ultraviolet, tend to also cause predominantly heat absorption but can have some effects at the atomic/molecular level, particularly those in the ultraviolet range (the end of the spectrum closer to the xray than the radio wave). Infrared end of the spectrum of light waves is closer to the radiowaves/microwaves and tends to predominantly deposit their energy as heat (they cause the molecules to increase their movement relative to one another, and when they settle back down the result is heat generated). Radiowaves used for cell phones fall into the microwave end of the spectrum and generally, like a microwave, deposit that energy as simple heat. So, unless your ear burns after you make a long call I wouldn't sweat where you carry your cell phone on your body.

Much ado about nothing. But it has generated a lively discussion.

jeff

[Howard Clark]

Much ado about nothing. But it has generated a lively discussion.

Aye! on both counts.

[Oldhiker]

I keep my cell phone when in my sporran on vibrate... I seldom miss a call

[turpin]

Hm! do you think that there's a market for sporrans with foil embedded in the back?

Mark

Hmmmm. *stroking beard* A testicle-safe Thorfinn. There could be a niche here.

[BoldHighlander]

I keep my cell phone when in my sporran on vibrate... I seldom miss a call

I was going to say something *but* remembered this is a family forum