Re: Cellular Phones and EPDs

[Gary Masters <gmasters@csn.net>]

On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Erick Lindstrom wrote:

> Radsafers:
> 
> I just discovered that my Siemens Electronic Personal Dosimeters (EPD-2s)
> are rather sensitive to the electronic and magnetic fields (H field would
> be my guess) emanating from cellular telephones.  One began alarming while
> I was making a call this afternoon (I was three or four feet away from the
> EPD).  I was able to confirm my suspicions by getting the second EPD to
[SNIP]

We have seen similar behavior adjacent to some microwave ovens and near
hand-held UHF radios, when transmitting.  The subject microwave ovens were
monitored for excessive microwave emissions with negative results. 


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