Re: Wireless Networking Dep

["GORDON MILLER" <gordon_miller@lccmail.ocf.llnl.gov>]

        Reply to:   RE>>Wireless Networking Depl
Emissions from the antenna of a prototype, close in, were at the edge of
detection for a Narda 8617 meter and well below IEEE C95.1-1991 criteria. 
Standard 20 cm measurements were not warranted at that time in light of those
results.  A newer device with a different lap top antenna location and output
would need to be assessed on its own.

If the manufacturer didn't up the output, whole body exposures should be
minimal from the lap top and also from the room stations.  Exposures at the
testes and eyes should also be minimal.

Another option would be to see if the manufacturer had dosimetry calculations
run, say by the Univeristy of Utah.  If dose rates come out <0.4 W/kg of tissue
including eye and testes locations, then the unit complies with the dosimetric
objectives of IEEE C95.1-1991.

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Date: 5/3/95 2:22 PM
To: GORDON MILLER
From: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
*** Reply to note of 05/03/95 13:37
rnross@bcsc02.gov.bc.ca

The only reason you may want a survey is to verify that the devices are too
low to worry about.  But if you survey too close to the antennas the meter
will give an uncalibrated very high reading tha t will scare people who   think
 the meter is reading accurately.The best bet is to quote the IEEE standard
stating that  due to the output power being so and so this device is exempt
from exposure controls (except for contact with the radiation structure)

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