Subject:  Headphone & Microphone sets (Duffield)..
Date:     Thu, 1 Jun 2000 184403 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" 
To:       emfguru 
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........Answers here on this one are not very "certain."  We have
discussed and exchanged some info -- but inconclusive, I think.....

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 09:48:28 +1200
From: Jesse Duffield 
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: Headphone & Microphone sets

Hi Roy,

first of all, thanks for the very informative emails. You really are up
with the latest on EMF/EMR health issues and I appreciate hearing it in
your emails.

I've recently (and in some ways reluctantly) succumbed to the cellphone
age, and use a head phone & microphone set & hold the phone away from
my  body as I speak, trusting that the 'inverse square law' will reduce
my exposure to hundreths of what it would otherwise be, and therefore
what I hope is a 'safe' level.

People have been telling me recently that  a study in England found that
the wire in such sets can act as a large aerial, and in some cases make
using the phone worse than when it is straight up agains the brain.

I asked a friend who is very knowledgeble on such technology about this,
and he told me that this will be the case if the phones don't have
circuitry to block the radio frquency from the socket the set plugs
into.

Is this so? Is it known which phones are safer to use with these sets?
To me it has always seemed absurd putting the transmitter right up to
the head when all that is needed is a microphone and speaker. This
latest study seems to contradict that completely? If this isn't the case
then why do you think such sets aren't encouraged more?

Another question if I could, how often do GSM phones 'beacon'? I've had
a number of discussions with people who understand the system about this
and no-one seems to know, how often does a GSM phone which is turned on
transmit, and for how long? I don't know about other uses but to me its
rather important when I'm carrying it near my body.

Thanks again for the mail & updates.

Cheers,
Jesse.



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