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Mon Jan 12 01:30:52 PST 2015

I can hear some voltage inverters (110 to DC).  Have to track them down in my house because the sound is so annoying.  Also have a problem with the sound of some fluorescent fixtures.

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> On Jan 11, 2015, at 9:34 PM, Steve Ross <editorsteve at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hah! It is also an issue for Green Bank astronomers. Like light-wavelength astronomers, they do most of their sensitive work after the sun is down, and the earth itself shields them from the sun.
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> Look, I'm willing to bet there are some people who are sensitive to some frequencies. At Columbia University, where one of my tasks was accommodating students sensitive to light flicker on CRT screens and from fluorescent fixtures (these things can trigger seizures by stimulating the optic nerve through the eyes), we were able to document sensitivities to flyback transformers on old CRTs. We avoided classroom settings where students were close to the backs of CRTs in the next row, for instance. And we quickly replaced CRTs that showed signs of overscan. But those babies put out enormous electromagnetic fluctuations, and even xrays, as they moved the electron beam in the CRTs across the screens. 
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> But I just have a hard time believing folks who think a proposed cell tower 3000 feet away produces more exposure than their own cell phone a few inches away. And I have a hard time understanding why someone might have brain or body configured to sense a wide range of frequencies.
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> BTW, my wife has hearing that is super-sensitive to high frequency SOUND. She can often tell when a cell phone in someone's pocket is on or off -- one of the key pieces of evidence of sensitivity cited in the article. She can almost always tell if a supposedly "off" item is drawing a little power and thus producing a little hiss. Mens' voices typically peak at around 1 kHz and women at nearly 2 kHz. The hiss is often over 10KHz so it is easy to pick out in a crowded room.
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>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Steve Cimelli <steve at preferredbusinesssolutions.biz> wrote:
>> Interesting comment Steve on the microwave oven.    Several years ago we had a clamp break inside a microwave.
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>> The technician who came to fix it tested it for microwave leakage before and after the fix.   I was standing there as he
>> brought out his testing device.   He first wanted to show me the background emissions from the sun, so he unplugged 
>> the oven and turned on the device.   It registered a small reading.    He said ‘follow me’ and walked to the window.  The
>> reading went up.   He explained that the sun, unshielded fusion reactor that it was hurled energy all over the electromagnetic
>> spectrum in every direction.    The oven running added to that reading in the smallest way, but nothing compared to the background
>> radiation that he also claimed was minor.    
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>> Hard to get away from that.
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>> On Jan 10, 2015, at 1:49 PM, Steve Ross <editorsteve at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Shows you the power of PR people to push stories for their own agendas.
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>> Remember how the NYT did a front page story on the Obama stimulus program in 2009 as it was being considered in Congress? The story zoomed in on the broadband package, 1% of the total program, as s "cyberbridge to nowhere."  The NYT stenographer (he called himself a reporter) said he had come up with the phrase himself. Right. Just a few days earlier PR for a major cable company had used the phrase on me. 
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>>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Christopher Mitchell <christopher at newrules.org> wrote:
>>> I just saw a similar article on Ars -
>>> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/01/electrosensitives-seek-haven-in-wi-fi-quiet-zone-as-teens-set-up-hotspots/
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>>> Christopher Mitchell
>>> Director, Community Broadband Networks
>>> Institute for Local Self-Reliance
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>>> http://www.muninetworks.org
>>> @communitynets
>>> 612-276-3456 x209
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>>>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Steve Ross <editorsteve at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> And yet,  almost all the double-blind challenge tests,  where you randomly subject electrosensitive people to signals,  turn out negative. I know of a half-dozen mildly positive studies,  only two of which could be replicated by the researchers, but used methodologies not quite double blind.  
>>>> It is always possible that some people are sensitive to some wavelengths,  but everything from fluorescent ballasts at 3600 Hz to wifi at 2.4 or 5.2 GHz or cellular at 1.9 GHz? Yes, there are harmonics, but signal strength gets so low so fast...
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>>>> And so many activists complain about cellular or wifi yet have microwave oven and cordless phones  emitting similar frequency.
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>>>>> On Jan 10, 2015 11:27 AM, "Tom Johnson" <tom at jtjohnson.com> wrote:
>>>>> http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/the-town-without-wi-fi/
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