Re: cellular phone power OP

[Alex Mitchell <sherlock@xtra.co.nz>]

At 10:34 PM 28/04/98 -0500, John Cormack wrote:

>Can anyone out there tell me what the peak power output, duty cycle and
>average power output of a typical cellular phone (digital and/or analogue)
>is, or point me in the right direction for this information?

Hi John!

The peak output powers are quoted as 600 mW (analogue) or 2W for
digital:

K J Clifford,  K H Joyner,  D B Stroud et al
"Mobile Telephones Interfere with Medical Electrical Equipment"
Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine 1994  17(1) 23-27

Regards,

Alex Mitchell



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