Posted on 01/31/2017 6:59:21 AM PST by EinNYC
I just got a new Panasonic cordless phone and initiated Verizon's Home Phone service, which allows you to get their wireless service but use it to power your (comfortable) cordless phone. For that, you need a doohickey called a MiFi router which you connect to the phone via a cable. My model of MiFi also allows me to add a cable for my fax machine and will run that, too.
I have been reading up on EMF radiation from cell phones and wireless devices and have some concern, because my Maine Coon Bijou likes to lay on her perch next to me, which is about 18" away from my cordless phone base and MiFI router, and about 3' from my cable modem/WiFi.
Do any FReepers have expertise in EMF or other electronic emissions, and could you tell me if there is a "safe" distance Bijou could be from these devices? As many of you know, I lost my beloved kitty Kefira back in March from bone marrow cancer, and I want to make sure that my wireless devices do not bring about such a horror for my present cherished kitties.
Thanks for any expert input.
It’s like putting the cat in the microwave...
Absolutely no danger.
Worry more about the bacteria in your icemaker.
That said, do you realize how many EM waves travel through your body every day? Think about it: Cell phones, radio, TV, computers, routers, GPS, home devices, etc. No one is dying of those waves penetrating their bodies. Your cats are okay.
Lots of options to protect from all types of radiation.
With a cat at my side and many years of RF experience I tell you the risk is zip, zero, Nada. These are extremely low power devices.
It’s not a question of how dangerous, it’s simply not dangerous. At all.
Sorry about your last cat but some are predisposed to certain cancers, like all of us. It’s nothing you could have prevented.
Fear of EMF is the result of some anti-industrialist tendencies that began in the Scandinavian countries. Like man-made global warming, it’s a hoax with no scientific basis.
Just cover the heads of your pets in ordinary tin foil and they will be fine.
I think you would have to measure it to be sure.
https://www.amazon.com/Gen-El-Gauss-Master/dp/B0004IR6J6
Same frequency set is used in microwave ovens so the band is already a tiny bit corrupted. Power is one tenth of a watt...about the same as most cell phones.
Put your cat in Schrödinger’s Faraday cage.
On every one of our products, I measure field strength and calculate the RF exposure to humans for specific distances to the product (almost always, 20 cm, though some of our products require further distances). I am 100% confident every one of the products I have taken through certification-- almost a dozen now over my career-- was completely safe for human exposure.
And all these products transmit more RF power than a cordless telephone.
Please don't listen to the EMF paranoids. RF waves are NOT ionizing radiation, despite the hysteria.
Microwave ovens can readily effect WiFi signals.
Don’t push that junk, if he loves his pets he’ll get this.
http://www.labx.com/item/cem-liberty-microwave-peptide-synthensizer-discovery/3502958
I think this PSA belongs on this thread. Pet lovers, if you have cats or dogs, please never buy window clings, those gel like window decorations. Target is full of them right now, very cheap, to decorate your windows for Valentine’s Day.
Our beautiful YOUNG HEALTHY Balinese cat, Ciel, died from kidney failure after chewing on or eating these last July. We tried for a week to save her. It is still a heartbreak for this family.
They are toxic. Don’t buy them if you have pets.
Cue photo of grumpy cat with tinfoil hat
Worked for about five years at a 50,000 watt radio (was WJJD is now WYLL) in Chicago. For a while we operated directly from the transmitter site where were bathed in rf all the time.
Only time it got weird was when a heavy rain flooded the ground around the towers. That changed the tuning of the antenna-ground system and the swr (standing wave ratio) got so high that it locked up every computer in the building. Adjusting the tuning to match current parameters remedied the situation.
In a bad swr situation it takes power that should go to the antenna and reflects it back into the transmitter and the building. None of us had any problems with it, but you could pick up the station on telephone (land lines) and a variety of small appliances.
I have an RF amp to up a WiFi router’s output to 2 watts to put into a big directional antenna to get great WiFi coverage for the backyard.
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