If you swallow a cellular phone, you'll probalby just
get a bad case of indigestion.

Mike, it's the other end I'd start worring about! ;-)

Tom



"Mike Rivers" wrote in message
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Case in point: For years since 1950, AT&T Long Lines maintained 4 and
11 GHz transmitters at the top of the Empire State in NYC. Western
Electric always used flanged rigid copper waveguide with absorptive
gaskets, but radio sites in the entire Bell System were notoriously
leaky. A communication tech who had the Empire State job for ages had
a desk directly under the elbows for the waveguide runs coming in off
the roof. One day, he simply keeled over dead. Autopsy showed he was
literally cooked from the inside out.

There was a story going around the ham radio circles in the '50's
about some out-of-tolerance readings on a radar in the DEW Line
installation that were observed about the same time every Saturday
night. It turned out that a technician was opening up a waveguide
before going out on his Saturday night date thinking he was
temporarily sterilizing himself.

This (and living below a possibly defective microwave joint) is not in
any way the same as carrying a low power cell phone in your pocket.
When you have a hole in a several kilowatt transmission system, you
have a problem. If you swallow a cellular phone, you'll probalby just
get a bad case of indigestion.


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