I just received this video from Sandy. If you think that your mobile is safe and all the rubbish about the "microwave radiation from them is harmless" the media keep telling us, then watch this:
This DIY "Make your own popcorn" video should convince you that they are dangerous. Next time you hold one against your head just think "I'm frying my brains. Great!"
What sort of damage are they doing to the children of to-day who use them continually, 24/7? It doesn't really matter about us old 'uns, our brains are curdled anyway!
I notice you labelled it as "con trick", yes, very good, when the four sets were on receive and not on transmit.
Now repeat the experiment whilst they are transmitting. But that's probably also the point as their brains are so frazzled they didn't even think of that!
Ever noticed that a zombie-like person wandering around the pavement, often striding to and thro', will undoubtedly have a mobile phone next to their ear? And that these are the same people who can't understand / recognise that there is a law against using a mobile phone whilst driving?
Kevin - You spoilt it! I wanted to see how many people thought it was true! Obviously the cellphones were on receive and didn't radiate. I think there was a source of strong microwave radiation UNDER the table to cause the effect of the corn heating up to "pop" as it were! Damn!
Sandy - Kevin and I are both Radio Amateurs and we know that strong radiation fields can damage cells in the body. When using our radio equipment we try to keep as far away from the "hot" end as possible.
When hand-held transmitters came out in the 70's a fellow amateur carried and used one all the time. One day he started to complain of headaches which got steadily worse. Eventually he died of a massive brain tumour. At that time we never realised that even small amounts of UHF radiation could be dangerous. Kevin might have known him, Roger G*RRB? (I forget the number)
I think Roger may have had a G8 callsign. Seems familiar to me anyway. Not sure if the UHF radiation actually caused the tumour in the first place, but yes it certainly would have accelerated the growth. As you say there was a time when we didn't fully appreciate the dangers of radio frequency energy. When I think now of the number of times I got burned from touching aerials to tune them whilst I was transmitting. Thank goodness mobile phones use only a fraction of a Watt, as opposed to the very much higher wattages allowed under the Amateur Radio transmitting licence. Mobile phones are relatively very safe .... but .....!
I just Google'd Roger's callsign. His death must have been comparatively recent?
He was a founder member of the Leicestershire area's 'Amateur Radio Caravan and Camping Club', and I remember him now as a friend of Alan G4EPH from Stoney Stanton.
I also remember Alan from the early 1970's as being one of the first sales reps for 'Marley' PVC kitchen floor tiles, well before 'Marley' became a popular household brand name.
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I notice you labelled it as "con trick", yes, very good, when the four sets were on receive and not on transmit.
Now repeat the experiment whilst they are transmitting. But that's probably also the point as their brains are so frazzled they didn't even think of that!
Ever noticed that a zombie-like person wandering around the pavement, often striding to and thro', will undoubtedly have a mobile phone next to their ear? And that these are the same people who can't understand / recognise that there is a law against using a mobile phone whilst driving?