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Someone posted the thing about bees dying around the country today. I’ve been following this with interest for a few months, mostly because I make mead. Mead is made from honey, and I was considering starting a business... how’s this come out of WiFi?

Someone suggested in the news recently that the problem was “cellular phones”.

Well... umm... the one thing I absolutely CLAIM to be an expert in is radio technology, theory, and RF radiation hazards. Anyway, the point is that people have made claims of cell phones causing cancer before (cuz, golly, you hold them to your head and they are transmitting and so on).

Well, the radiation levels are so LOW on WiFi (and cell phones) that there isn’t even a chance in hell of causing damage from that amount of radio energy. But, good grief someone has to find something BAD in everything, don’t they?

I’m not sure I will start a meadery because... too many bees are dying, the cost will be too great in a few years, but I am sure I could sell cellular phones.... /grrrr

Yes they can. We have to check for this during development of computerized medical devices. In some cases incoming rings or pings to cell phones will interfere with computers.

Cellular phones operate on frequencies between 800-900 MHz. WiFi is at about 2.4 GIGAHertz. Lemme see doing some math here....850,000,000 cycles per second times 2 = 1,700,000,000 cycles per second. (Nope, no interference there) * 3= 2,550,000,000 (Hmmm maybe, but not quite) nope, no interference there either. Nope cell phones DO NOT interfere directly with WiFi. With computer NETWORKS that are WIRES? No. That;s nonsense unless someone sticks the phone INSIDE a computer (metal box, gosh it blocks RF)... or wraps a CAT-5 cable around the phone to induce enough current from the phone in the wire. Even then CAT-5/CAT-6 cables are "twisted pair" technology... so the induced current will CANCEL itself out. Nope, no interference there either. Portable phones? Yep. 2.4 gigahertz devices. Microwaves? Yep, 2.4 gigahertz devices. Jeez, people amaze me believing stuff that isn't true.