Time to sound the alarm about 5G?

American Thinker ^ | 05/01/2019 | Robert Arvay

[lepton]

A long time ago, there was this thing called side-lobe, which was an intractable problem and which sent a lot of the power in directions that were more than merely wasteful, but also insecure. Engineers noticed that sidelobe isn’t merely a spreading of EM, but an interaction of the energies, creating multiple lobes at specific proportions to the main signal, and at specific natural angles. This applied to both telecommunications, and radar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side_lobe

Then engineers learned how to cancel out sidelobe, and now line of sight was both more efficient, and less simple to eavesdrop on.

One of the things you may notice is that cellular antennae would come in groups of three - at 120-degree facings from one another. Now they come in groups of three, with several subcomponents, such as a electromagnetic wave refractor, which allows enhanced directionality.

Later, engineers learned how to use a similar cancellation effect to split beams, and make the main bursts of power extend in odd directions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIMO

These MIMO (Multiple input, multiple output) antennae were in use with 4G, and represent a large improvement in channel capacity over 3G. 5G takes that to an order of magnitude better, with a host of other improvements.

Think of the bumps on a ferro-fluid, then imagine tens of thousands of bumps, each electronically tunable by strengthening and cancelling lobes via resonance. The physical antenna points in an arc. Electronically, the signal is broken into tens of thousands of beams capable of each being aimed anywhere in that 120-degree arc, plus a little, as well as to a lesser extent, up and down.

[lepton]

oh, and radar is looking at tens to hundreds of miles, with atmospheric bending often out of its control. 5G nodes are designed to be every few hundred yards, and making use of ricocheting off buildings.

[Grampa Dave]

All present and future electronic communication can be monitored, hacked and modified.

My question as an old man does 5 G offer any advantages for my wife and I, siblings, in laws and relatives running businesses from their homes or rented offices?

So far I have been told that 5G will be like JFK’s landing Americans on the moon. My great/great/great grandkids will supposedly benefit from 5 G.

We have 3 Chromebooks, 2 Android Phones and a Amazon Fire tablet used to monitor weather station 100 yards away and for my Kindle books.

3 years ago we cut our cable and use Comcast business internet, phone and to stream a couple of hours of tv per evening. I bank and manage our IRA’s with a Chromebook.

The Comcast internet is very fast and reliable. Data is entered or retrieved by our ChromeBooks, Smart Phones and Fire tablet very rapidly. We never have the revolving little circle showing that the system is overloaded. The only time that happens is usually the result of a drunk driver taking out a telephone pole with phone cables on it.

Siblings with their own businesses use Macs or Chromebooks and either Apple or Android end user phones/tablets. They don’t need anything that is faster.

The most technical guy still uses Windows 7 and Comcast business internet and Apple Phones.

So again why do we need 5 G. Saving our intel is a bs argument.