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Article #57Re: Can mobile phones destroy sensitive electronics?
From: Roy McCammon
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 16:17
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 16:17
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Steve Greenfield wrote: > > I personally saw a piece of digital scientific gear > > become permanently damaged when a high power walkie > > talkie was keyed on about three feet front the gear. > > Wow. That must have been a -very- powerful walkie talkie. Aren't most > cell phones transmitting only a few hundred milliwatts? They were military walkie-talkies. I'd guess in the 10Watt range. > I can't help but think that this digital scientific gear was badly > designed. Don't know. It did have long coax cables connected to it. It was a time code generator for use with a big Ampex multi channel recorder. It also radiated significantly. -- If you are one in a million; there are 6000 people just like you. Opinions expressed herein are my own and may not represent those of my employer.
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