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Wi-Fi Sickness Sweeps the Nation
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | May 21, 2015 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 05/21/2015 6:14:11 PM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

Wi Fi sickness. And I’m finally getting over Pac Man elbow! ;)


21 posted on 05/21/2015 7:20:26 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: TexasGator
No, it's because Rush Limbaugh, despite a background in radio broadcast, knows LITTLE OR NOTHING about the technology of radio.

I design radio transceivers for a living, on the 450, 900, and 2400 MHz bands, for over 20 years. Ask questions if you like.

22 posted on 05/21/2015 7:21:14 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: mikey_hates_everything
I'm a radio engineer-- design 2.4 GHz radios for a living-- and I sit 2 cubicles down from a former microwave oven engineer.

Please identify the particular model of microwave oven that is "not well shielded". You probably can't, because there aren't any more. Most are extremely well shielded and have sophisticated interlocks that shut down the magnetron (the transmitter) if you even try to open the door.

23 posted on 05/21/2015 7:23:40 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: Paladin2

“Full episodes of I Love Lucy are still on their way out into the Universe....”

Splainin to space aliens there is no intelligent life on earth.


24 posted on 05/21/2015 7:24:18 PM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: backwoods-engineer

“I design radio transceivers for a living, on the 450, 900, and 2400 MHz bands, for over 20 years. Ask questions if you like.”

Thanks. I may take you up on the offer sometime.

If only I could get my wifi signal to quit bouncing in and out. It’s better now but for some time it run fine for a few days but then suddenly would fall from 25 mpbs to less than one. Forcing a channel change would cure it for a few days. I blame Verizon but the claim innocence.


25 posted on 05/21/2015 7:25:28 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Paladin2

Full episodes of I Love Lucy are still on their way out into the Universe....


Somewhere on an alien planet orbiting an alien sun the inhabitants are pondering the meaning of “Babaloo”.


26 posted on 05/21/2015 7:29:33 PM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: MeshugeMikey

The sickness here is SICK LAWYERS. There I’ve said it SLEAZY GOOD FOR NOTHING ATTORNEYS.


27 posted on 05/21/2015 7:31:39 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: George from New England

America is SEVERELY over laywered!!


28 posted on 05/21/2015 7:32:37 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Kaslin

Frequencies can affect people.

Some are music.
some are visible
Some are infrared and make you feel warm Or give you a nice tan.

Some are microwave frequencies and cook food and can burn you.

I don’t doubt that a small percentage of people can be affected by crtain frequencies that most people are not bothered by.

We recognize people with sever problems with exposure to light, some people can taste colors, some people can taste words - brain wiring does this - so it is not incredible that certain frequencies could bother a smal number of highly sensitive people. I believe it can hapoen. Lok at how long cel phone makers enied a link to brain cancer in heavy cell users.


29 posted on 05/21/2015 7:33:11 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Kaslin; TexasGator

Yeah, that was pretty funny about AM. Worm-waves! Socialist political volks should run that 12-6 cm real close to their brains, 24/7. Even 2m can get ‘em. For the wise,...

RF Safety Compliance Calculator
http://www.wirelessconnections.net/calcs/rfsafety.asp

For blowhards,...

Vacation to Venus (scroll down)
http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/kornbluthcm-marchingmorons/kornbluthcm-marchingmorons-00-e.html

Me? I’ll keep the antennas pointed away from me.


30 posted on 05/21/2015 7:33:42 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The next BIG THING is here. Real life Slippin' Jimmies everywhere are licking their chops:


31 posted on 05/21/2015 7:36:49 PM PDT by FredZarguna (We are vain and we are blind/I hate people when they're not polite.)
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To: Kaslin

Do we actually know that these radio waves have no affect. Look at our country. We have nation on imbeciles. there might be a correlation with 100 years of increased radio waves and the current progressive/socialist takeover./s


32 posted on 05/21/2015 7:39:05 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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To: Kaslin

RF exposure can indeed be hazardous. There’s been cases of Cops frying their nuts keeping speed radar guns in their laps - still, that’s up in the GHz range admittedly.

Nevertheless, typical radio freqs can be harmful depending upon the signal strengths and separation distances involved.

It’s interesting that in USSR days their specs for such things were far tighter than ours.


33 posted on 05/21/2015 7:40:03 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: Kaslin; TexasGator; Secret Agent Man

Dangers of an indoor antenna.
http://www.eham.net/ehamforum/smf/index.php?ehamsid=rn5709f1d5rcobli7r9s9nibb1&/topic,81271.0.html

RF exposure question
http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?278460-RF-exposure-question


34 posted on 05/21/2015 7:41:35 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: familyop

Woops, forgot this link to FCC site:
https://www.fcc.gov/guides/human-exposure-rf-fields-guidelines-cellular-and-pcs-sites


35 posted on 05/21/2015 7:46:09 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: Secret Agent Man
Also see comment #30.

It's all relative, really, you know. Depends on amount of power used, distance from antenna, duration of exposure and so on. Someone who transmits while being very close to the wrong side of an antenna much of the time might be affected.


36 posted on 05/21/2015 7:51:31 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Autonomous User; Paladin2
Don't believe everything you see in movies.

The originally "I Love Lucy" episodes are now so far from Earth (63.57LY), and the signal-to-noise ratio is so low, that no physically-realizable receivers that could be built (with the physics and engineering we know, granted) out there to receive them.

NONE. Even if "I Love Lucy" was transmitted with 1 Megawatt on VHF TV Channel 6, and our Aliens built an antenna dish in orbit 100 km in diameter (gain 97.3 dB @87.8 MHz) pointed straight at us, the free-space path loss is so incredibly high (366.9 dB @63LY @87.8MHz), the signal would be so weak (-199.6 dBm), that there would be no possible way to detect the signal in the 6 MHz-wide channel (thermal noise floor -125.8 dBm @-270C), even if you immersed the receiver's first amplifier stage in liquid helium. You need at least 50 dB SNR for studio-quality video, and roughly 20 dB for snow-filled ghosts, and you've got -73.8 dB SNR.

Just can't do it.

Even fictional Alpha Centaurians couldn't have seen the first "Lucy" episode in 1955; they'd receive it on their 62-mile-wide orbital dish at about -176.2 dBm, which gives them a non-usable -50.4 dB SNR (remember, they need +20 dB SNR for snow-filled reception).

So, why do cell phones and GPS work at low SNR's? Unlike modern GPS and cell-phone signals, black-and-white NTSC transmissions do NOT include any features that could be used to mathematically "correlate" them from underneath the galactic noise floor.

If the Aliens aren't in our Solar System, they aren't going to see TV transmission.

37 posted on 05/21/2015 8:01:36 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: 1066AD
"https://www.fcc.gov/guides/human-exposure-rf-fields-guidelines-cellular-and-pcs-sites"

Thanks! The antennas on towers are mounted for safety.

So, what about the little mobile units transmitting through the brain-cases of those who use them most of each day and night for babbling?

;-)


38 posted on 05/21/2015 8:01:40 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: familyop
Every time my company designs a new wireless device, we have to spend THOUSANDS of $ to prove to the government that aren't radiating the nads of our users. We calculate Maximum Permissible Exposure and Specific Exposure based on transmit time.

WiFi transmit time, power limits (government rules), and antenna gains are well known.

These people are faking it.

39 posted on 05/21/2015 8:06:38 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: Flick Lives

No. Read my #37. No alien civilization on ANY star system (including Alpha Centauri) can receive black-and-white NTSC TV transmissions. NONE.


40 posted on 05/21/2015 8:08:15 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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