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A question for all RF engineers

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Studio1

Do you have kids? If so, are they girls, boys or both?

I'm just following a little theory here. I've talked to many engineers here who have worked around high RF fields in the early parts of their lives - ie the times when they've been starting families, and 99% of them (myself included) have girls.
 
I have one boy (17) and one girl (11). I've worked around RF for 40+ years, much of it high power AM, FM and TV, and a little bit of SW.

Got a pair of dice? It might work better at predicting such things.
 
Studio1 said:
Do you have kids? If so, are they girls, boys or both?

I'm just following a little theory here. I've talked to many engineers here who have worked around high RF fields in the early parts of their lives - ie the times when they've been starting families, and 99% of them (myself included) have girls.
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I don't think this "theory" works quite that way. I've been in "RF rich" environments now for over 30 years (AM, FM, UHF-TV and SW). I've got a girl (20) and boy (17). It's an interesting theory, mind you, but...... nah... I don't think so.
 
Two girls. I gets lots of lower frequency strong field exposure in printing environment. Only part 15 AM RF exposure.
But I have worked with radios my whole life.
My brother who also went to the same radio school but stayed out of radio had 4 girls.

Too many factors, wave length being crucial for this question.
 
8 ! Ages and sex: 24,girl, 18, boy, 10 boy, 8 girl, 6 girl, 2 boy girl boy.

The high power rf years where I lived at a high power site resulted in my 18 year old son.
 
I would be more concerned with cooking your brain with a cell phone. I use my bluetooth earpiece whenever possible to lower the exposure dose. I have both a son and daughter. I've been exposed to RF in many forms regularly over the past 30 years.
 
Amen on cellphone exposure. I built the guts of a handsfree mic/earphone into a 1938 Western Electric bakelite handset.
I can perch it on my shoulder and drive with the cellphone wedged in the armrest.
When I first received the Motorola flip-fone 3 years ago, I could clearly hear when it was next to my ear, a VERY high sparkling
cracking, like hearing the tiny ice cyrstals ever crackling as they form. Not an audio transduced effect but direct pulse modulated
into the cillia (sp?) of the inner ear. The frequency was above normal sounds and overtones. I am worried because I hear it less as I use the phone more.

I must get back to finding a good microphone for the hand set, which is why I'm not curently using it.
At least it doesn't actually heat up your ear like the old analogs.

I also keep a thick pocket pad between me and the cellphone in my shirt pocket. Points of contact will be nodal current points.
I dislike having microwave energy disappated in my cells.
Before I developed this habit, I began to get a non-specific itchiness but very localized, which happened to be where the cellphone
rides against my chest. No such problem since the 1.5mm pocket tablet is the ever present spacer.
 
Five kids...

I've been working with high power RF since I was 16. I've been exposed to RF since I was five (my dad was a ham, and my bedroom was 10 feet under his antenna).

I have five kids, 23, 20, 16, 4 and 2.
 
speakerman said:
I would be more concerned with cooking your brain with a cell phone. I use my bluetooth earpiece whenever possible to lower the exposure dose. I have both a son and daughter. I've been exposed to RF in many forms regularly over the past 30 years.
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Not to drag this thread too far off topic, but since bluetooth is wireless and at a similiar frequency to cellphones, is there really any benefit from an exposure standpoint. Yes I realize the power is probably lower, but then again, where is the phone being held when using it outside of a car?

As for the main hypothesis, I'm single and have no kids and I'm not an RF engineer, unless you count those times I work on my CB rigs, so I can't help prove or disprove it.
 
Not to drag this thread too far off topic, but since bluetooth is wireless and at a similiar frequency to cellphones, is there really any benefit from an exposure standpoint. Yes I realize the power is probably lower, but then again, where is the phone being held when using it outside of a car?
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Your body still gets exposure while carrying the phone however the brain area exposure is substantially lower with the bluetooth earpiece. This is not an issue while using it in the car. The general concerns have been RF dose over time to the brain area from what I have read. Bluetooth RF emission levels are very low compared to the cell phone itself (especially when you are in a marginal coverage area and the tower is telling the phone to run at full power. Bluetooth runs at only about 1 milliwatt.
 
Arghh! Noted my own mis-type of 1.5 mm pocket pad ! Ha! What good would that do? It's more like a 15mm pocket pad bound in
printing press blanket, a 5-ply rubber/cotton cloth with real good dielelectric properties. The press blanket makes it so grippy it doesn't
fall out of my pocket when I bend way over working on things. And the blanket grips the phone with some pocket tension, so it doesn't
fall out either. I will be insisting that my new phone have headset plugin, or I guess I'll have to figure out some kind of ringer for the remote handset ( 1938 Western Electric ). It'll be kind of neat to set that up as a bluetooth if I hafta. Guess I'll get a belt-loop clip.
 
Re: Five kids...

LA_Guy said:
I've been working with high power RF since I was 16. I've been exposed to RF since I was five (my dad was a ham, and my bedroom was 10 feet under his antenna).

I have five kids, 23, 20, 16, 4 and 2.
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Girls, boys or a mix?
 
Re: Five kids...

Studio1 said:
LA_Guy said:
I've been working with high power RF since I was 16. I've been exposed to RF since I was five (my dad was a ham, and my bedroom was 10 feet under his antenna).

I have five kids, 23, 20, 16, 4 and 2.
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Girls, boys or a mix?
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Four girls and one boy.
 
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