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Some Cell Towers are Microwave torture devices..

It is not out of the realm of possibility that one can react to RF. However at the low feild strength that would be the case in the OP I highly doubt that this is occuring to him.

My first job as a tech two of us were hired on and since we knew next to nothing about the air nav equipment we got the task of repairing the 5W, 12V VHF transceivers mounted in the vehicles at the airport. My fellow new hire was working on on that did not seem to be transmitting, no power on the wattmeter. He leaned in to look closely and when he keyed the mic he could feel heat coming off the unit so he leaned in further to try and pinpoint what component was getting hot. That was when he experienced an RF arc from the o/p transistor's emitter to his nose. I saw it occur, saw him jump back and yelp.
Turns out that an RF choke between the O/P stage and the antenna connector had a small burn through so none of the o/p power was getting to the wattmeter and was causing the transistor to heat up but when he got close enough the RF found a path, his nostril hairs.
 
SkepticGuy said:
It was at least 30 years ago, so the details of the equipment are fuzzy (home-brew), but I believe the 3 centimeter band.

The speculation by a doctor in the club was that a rare number of people may have a physiology where portions of their body are the exact dimensions needed to resonate at certain frequencies when close to transmitters of that frequency. And home-brew equipment spewing lots of dirty harmonics probably just makes it worse.

The "nuked hand," as best I can recall, was apparently due to long exposure to a strong signal via an experimental can antenna (using metal duct). Permanent nerve and some soft-tissue damage.
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There IS a 3cm ham radio band but 30 years the highest power levels you'd find there (outside of some pulsed military radars) would be around 10 miliwatts via Gunn diodes- or if you were very lucky (and had the bucks) maybe 100 milliwatts. Nowhere near enough to cause any kind of biological effect even if you eyeballed directly into an open waveguide.

The average human makes a fair half wave antenna around the FM broadcast band, but I'm unaware of any documented cases of effects much less injury from folks who work around high powered FM broadcast antennas. And even a second harmonic from a really dirty transmitter at half the frequency will be attenuated by anywhere from 100 to 1,000 times.

RF at very high levels heats tissue- deep tissue at HF (as in diathermy machines) and the outer level of the skin at microwave frequencies. Long before there would be permanent nerve and soft tissue damage the heating effect would cause an individual to move out of the area.
 
SkepticGuy said:
Troll much?
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I think the guy who said those things was nuts; maybe you can get him to post that stuff at ATS and make money.

Do you think he is nuts or suffers from Electromagnetic hypersensitivity?

I vote nuts.
THOSE WHO ARE ASSAULTING INNOCENT AMERICAN CITIZENS WITH A GOVERNMENT MICROWAVE WEAPON WILL BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE
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Nuts.
 
jaydeehess said:
Turns out that an RF choke between the O/P stage and the antenna connector had a small burn through so none of the o/p power was getting to the wattmeter and was causing the transistor to heat up but when he got close enough the RF found a path, his nostril hairs.
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Don't do that! I'm recovering from a chest cold and it hurts to laugh....
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Gangularis said:
designed to torture our own citizens!!
Some guy supposedly named Vic Livingston wrote it.. and in the comments section he also says this:
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Simple Logic Check:
Microwave Weapon - expensive and takes long
two rounds of 9mm ammo - cheap, and immediate

Case closed...
 
Hamradioguy said:
The average human makes a fair half wave antenna around the FM broadcast band, but I'm unaware of any documented cases of effects much less injury from folks who work around high powered FM broadcast antennas. And even a second harmonic from a really dirty transmitter at half the frequency will be attenuated by anywhere from 100 to 1,000 times.
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I can remember when I used to watch VHF TV with "rabbit ears" (set top antenna), that sometimes you could significantly improve the reception by touching the antenna, or even just by standing in the right spot. The frequencies of the old analog VHF channels were pretty close to those of FM radio.
 
CORed said:
I can remember when I used to watch VHF TV with "rabbit ears" (set top antenna), that sometimes you could significantly improve the reception by touching the antenna, or even just by standing in the right spot. The frequencies of the old analog VHF channels were pretty close to those of FM radio.
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Somewhere on YouTube is a recent video of my pal Dale, AF1T copying signals reflected off the moon from the Arecibo dish antenna. He's using two pickles for an antenna. Far more interesting than claims of microwave torture from cell towers.
 
Hamradioguy said:
Somewhere on YouTube is a recent video of my pal Dale, AF1T copying signals reflected off the moon from the Arecibo dish antenna. He's using two pickles for an antenna. Far more interesting than claims of microwave torture from cell towers.
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Were they Kosher? :duck:
 
Hamradioguy said:
Somewhere on YouTube is a recent video of my pal Dale, AF1T copying signals reflected off the moon from the Arecibo dish antenna. He's using two pickles for an antenna. Far more interesting than claims of microwave torture from cell towers.
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FOOD ABUSE!!!:boxedin:
 
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