Wi-fi allergy

phildonnia said:
Break out the tinfoil hats again.

Heard about this on the radio, from a credulous talk-show host, citing a credulous local news source. Steve Miller* gets sick from WiFi signals.

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*Someone make a "Fly like an Eagle" joke so we can just get it over with.
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Dude, you don't want to get caught up in any of that funky **** goin' down in the city.













Sorry.
 
Just as another side note. I worked in an electrical laboratory for over a decade testing connectors for power distribution and transmission, unusually at several hundred amps resulting in strong magnetic fields. Often I’d be working on one test assembly while another was running, sometimes inducing a 60 Hz vibration in the metal tool I was holding. One day at a barbeque at a friend’s house, basically directly under some transmission lines, whenever my girlfriend (at that time) and I touched each other we could feel that same vibration. Alone nothing, but all I had to do was put one hand on her and we could both feel it. I recognized the vibration from working in the lab but to this day I’m still unable to explain why we felt it (without holding some metal)and why only when we touched.
 
One thought for our Jogger Bugged by High Tension Towers...maybe it's actually the sound that's bothering him. I know that, back when the early 'ultrasonic' security systems were being used in some stores in the late 70's, I would hear and feel the high-pitched whine around the entry area certain stores. I likened it to the transmitted sound/vibration of a dental drill, and it sometimes was physically painful. I developed the strategy of hurrying away from the entry doors to cope. (I could not enter the local Gemco without doing at least a jog.) The old bulky CRTs used to sometimes emit a similar highpitched hum/buzz from the back sometimes, and it could be headache inducing if it went on long enough. Now that the systems have gotten better, it's not a problem, but since I've actually experienced the 'frequency that hurts' in my specific case, I know it can happen.

Since the 'corona' of high tension lines can be heard (and in special conditions, even seen) it seems to me that it's possible that the poster may be just experiencing a reaction to the sound. It also seems to me more likely that he's just experiencing a psychosomatic phenomenon, but without actual testing, it's hard to know.

Note for the poster: Psychosomatic does not mean that it's not real. It means that your brain is sending signals to your body that result in you having a physical response.

It would actually be fairly easy for you to measure the electro-magnetic field at the distance in question, and then have an electrical geek or EE student rig up a device that would create the same level of field. You could do some blinded trials to see if you can, in fact, detect the fields in question.

Just my thoughts, MK
 
I don't know about wi-fi allergy, but I have 'lo-fi' allergy... if I get to far from an internet connection, I get hives :D

LTW
 
Miss_Kitt said:
It would actually be fairly easy for you to measure the electro-magnetic field at the distance in question, and then have an electrical geek or EE student rig up a device that would create the same level of field. You could do some blinded trials to see if you can, in fact, detect the fields in question.

Just my thoughts, MK
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Eh, this device of which you speak would just be a wireless router. Testing this kind of thing would be easy, have this guy sit in a Faraday cage with an unplugged wireless router and a laptop inside. Flip a coin, heads = plug the router in, tails = unplug the router, set the laptop to autoconnect to the wifi(the reason for the laptop is the nature of Wifi, if theres nothing connected to the wireless, the router will just broadcast the occasional SSID).

Have the guy inside document when he starts getting his allergic attacks.
 
Uncle Vanya said:
Eh, this device of which you speak would just be a wireless router. Testing this kind of thing would be easy, have this guy sit in a Faraday cage with an unplugged wireless router and a laptop inside. Flip a coin, heads = plug the router in, tails = unplug the router, set the laptop to autoconnect to the wifi(the reason for the laptop is the nature of Wifi, if theres nothing connected to the wireless, the router will just broadcast the occasional SSID).

Have the guy inside document when he starts getting his allergic attacks.
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Uncle Vanya, I was speaking about the jogger who reported issues with high-tension lines, not the wi-fi dude. Sorry if that was unclear. MK
 
Yeah - with the jogger, you need to flip a coin and if it's heads, turn off the current flowing through the high tension lines.

:p

Should only take 20 or so runs to figure out if its a real thing or not...
 
I have experiance in guiding blind runners, so I would volunteer to guide Jakesteele through a course where he would be unaware of the presence of the spitting high tension wires.

In the interest of science of course and the pompatous of it all.
 
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