more re. cordless phones

>
> I can tell from the feedback that some of you are having second
> thoughts
> now about your cordless phones, so here is a bit information. I hope
> this
> is all you will need to be motivated to switch to a land line.
> The following is comments from 3 different people. (Remember, DECT is
> what cordless phones are called in some countries.)
>
>
> I have also had an experience with DECT.
> I have Alasdair's COM and acoustic COM, andsomeone asked me to help her
> see
> if
> the cellular antennasnear her house werea possible cause for her suffering
> inside her home.
> She felt ill and she was running away from certain rooms in her housebut
> had no explanation why. She asked her husband to sell their house and move
> somehwhere else because of the antennas that she sees from her window. But
> the
> cellular antennas didn't seemto affect her house - there was no radiation
> on
> the sideof the antennas, buton the other side of the house- all her
> kitchen
> was irradiated, theCOM was reading the maximum. She turned off the
> microwave,but it was still reading maximum (6.5 V/m, it could be more but
> the device
> shows up to 6.5) .It turned out that the reason was a DECT phone in the
> kitchen
> - not in useDECT phone. As soon as she removed the DECT phone - her
> kitchen
> was not irradiated anymore....now she doesn't want to sell her house
> anymore....and she also bought Alasdair's COM in order to warn others, she
> shows them
> how their cell phones irradiate.At the same time, I was told by people who
> bought DECT phones that theywere told in the store that DECTphones donot
> em
> it radiation at all ! .....
> Iris
>
>
> To All,
> About a year ago I received two RF meters designed by Alasdair
> Philips
> from Powerwatch in the UK that have proved very usefull in determining RF
> levels in various environments. One is the Acousti-COM (A-COM) Monitor
> that gives
> an audible noise to detect the presence of microwave emissions and whether
> they are pulsed or not. The other is the COM Monitor that measures
> exposure
> levels in volts per meter (0.7 to 6.5 v/m).
> Now only today I had the good fortune to pick up a quantity of
> Telstra
> DECT cordless phones and took to opportunity to test each one$B!G(Bs base
> station
> for emission levels. These are the sort of wireless phone that could
> easily be
> placed on a bedside table or office desk. Very small innocuous looking
> gadgets.
> However when their base station power transformer is plugged into the
> mains power point my A-COM Monitor ceased emitting a soft hiss to let out
> a
> loud pulsing shrill that pulsed continously for the whole time the base
> station
> was energised - not just when the phone is being used. Then using the COM
> Monitor, I was hitting the red zone at 4 V/m at 1/2 a meter from the base
> station
> that cradles the phone when not in use. At this distance one$B!G(Bs head could
> well
> be exposed to this level all night long if placed on the bedside table, or
> for
> the working day in the office if on the desk. As for any warnings in the
> instruction pamphlet, all it states is: $B!I(B Make sure it is at least 1
> metre away
> from other electrical products to avoid interference.$B!I(B
> It would have been nice to see a warning against placing the base station
> by
> a bedhead but everybody knows the stuff is "perfectly safe" as long as you
> are not an electrical product - right? ....
> Don Maisch
> [Of course, human beings are "electrical products". This is why my
> cardiac functions were so disturbed by the frequencies of electrical
> pollution.
> -Shivani]
>
>
>
> Yes, wireless cordless phones using the DECT technology (or here in Canada
> it
> usually says 2.4 GHz or 5.8 GHz on the base station) are the stuff
> nightmares
> are made of. I would rate it the single most trouble-causing device in
> modern
> homes. This technology was first introduced to Europe, around 1988 I
> believe.
> When I took my building biology training in Germany, Leberecht von
> Klitzing,
> a medical physicist from the University of Luebeck who observed EEG
> changes
> during cell phone radiation exposure (von Klitzing L: Low-frequency pulsed
> electromagnetic fields influence EEG of man. Physica Medica 1995; 11 (2):
> 77-80.),
> was one of the instructors. He told me in a personal conversation that in
> the
> beginning of the 1990s he all of sudden had infants brought to him who
> were
> perfectly healthy, but their heart beat started going crazy for no obvious
> reasons. As soon as the DECT cordless phone was removed from the bedroom
> or
> neighboring apartment, the infant$B!G(Bs heart beat went back to normal.
> RF radiation emitted from DECT cordless phones have a similar pulsed
> low-frequency (100 Hz) signal like certain cell phone technologies (e.g.
> 217 Hz)
> and in the case of DECT phones this type of radiation easily reaches up to
> 30$B!l(B
> . And the worst thing about these phones is that they do radiate 24 hours
> a
> day whether you place a phone call or not! Peak power can be up to 250 mW.
> Back in 1999 Leberecht von Klitzing already told me that there are
> much
> higher frequencies occurring within human brain wave patterns than
> previously
> thought. So the ELF signals attached to a lot of wireless communication
> technologies are not operating in a void space, but living organisms
> obviously
> already make use of these frequency bands. Imagine Industry Canada (or the
> FCC or
> whatever the name of the agency in a country that is allowed to sell the
> usage
> of frequency bands) would have a chart at their office wall, which shows
> all
> the frequency bands already utilized by living organisms. And the most
> essential frequency bands are highlighted and designated as protected
> frequencies so
> they cannot be auctioned off anymore for $B!H(Bhuman consumption$B!I(B.
> Well, if my memory serves me right, he mentioned such numbers like
> 100
> Hz for human brain wave frequencies. He explained that EEG monitoring
> instrumentation was not capable to actually pick up on the higher
> frequencies until
> recently. The first brain waves (alpha and beta) were recorded by Berger
> back in
> 1929. By now neuroscience textbooks describe a gamma frequency range,
> between
> 20 up to 60 Hz and sometimes up to 100 Hz for humans. Brain wave
> frequencies
> for rodents are documented up to 200 Hz. Gamma oscillations in the human
> brain
> seem to be related to meaningful object perception, learning and memory.
> (Memory-matches evoke human gamma-responses:
> www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2202/5/13)
> And it looks like that certain patterns in the high frequency range (> 20
> Hz)
> during sleep are associated with symptoms of schizophrenia and depression.
> (High frequency EEG activity during sleep: characteristics in
> schizophrenia and
> depression: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi? cmd=Retrieve&
> db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15683195&query_hl=12&itoo
> l=pubmed_docsum).
> In 1999 the Professional Association of Building Biology Consultants
> in
> Germany (Verband Deutscher Baubiologen www.baubiologie.net) demanded to
> ban
> the DECT cordless phone technology. In October 2002, fifty medical doctors
> from
> Germany shared their concern about negative health impacts associated with
> the use of 2.4 GHz cordless as well as mobile phones in the Freiburg
> Appeal - an
> initiative of the Interdisciplinary Society of Environmental Medicine
> (IGUMED). The Freiburg Appeal states that heart disturbances, extreme
> fluctuations in
> blood pressure and behavioral disorders among others could be observed in
> an
> increasing number of people using such mobile phone devices and demands
> that
> current digital phone technologies should be reviewed and adjusted to our
> biological needs. The English version of the Freiburg Appeal can be found
> in the
> News Archives of the Swedish Association for the
> Electrosensitivewww.feb.se/NEWS/news2001-2002.html
> After the first results of the REFLEX study came out last summer
> 2005,
> the Association of Medical Doctors from Vienna (Austria) (D*#rtztekammer
> aus
> Wien www.aekwien.at) joined the British Medical Association and issued a
> warning
> that children under the age of 16 should not be using cell phones. And in
> fall
> 2005, the Medical Doctors from Vienna even went a step further and wrote
> up $B!H(B
> 10 Medical Rules for Cell Phone Use$B!I(B for everybody, not just children.
> The
> poster, which was sent out to all members of the association, also
> recommends
> against the use of cell phones in waiting rooms.
> Here you find the original poster in German
> http://www.aekwien.at/media/Plakat_Handy.pdf
> Please find my English translation, which was authorized by the
> D*#rtztekammer
> Wien, attached further below. You are very welcome and even encouraged to
> distribute it on your e-mail list.
> [Don$B!G(Bs note: I cannot attach pdf files on this list so if you want a copy
> of
> the poster please email me.]
> Katharina
>