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Originally Posted by kapqa
you can check with an RF meter, if your device emits radiofrequency in high amounts;
i always turn off wifi/bluetooth, when not strictly needed (almost always), but some devices don§t seem to care and still give some unhealthy dose of radiation out it seems.
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There was a test done due to the new smart meters the electrical utility was installing since oddly for a device that connects once per month, there were people who were complaining about all kinds of ill effects from the radiation. They had several of the people who complained about being able to sense the RF radiation from the meters and had them sit in a room with a meter with a switch attached to it allowing the wireless communication module to be turned on or off.
When the switch was in the on position, there were complaints of headaches, nausea, etc. from the test subjects. When the switch was in the off position, the symptoms cleared up. A somewhat odd result from using a dummy switch and an electrical meter without the wireless communication module installed.
And BTW, the RF radiation from a WiFi or Bluetooth module installed in your ereader, etc., is non-ionizing RF radiation at a much lower level than the safety limits for non-ionizing radiation not to mention effects of the inverse square law. As anyone who has browsed the FCC or other testing agency listing rapidly realizes, the majority of the test are concerned with the amount of RF emitted by the device.
Do you worry about living near a coal fired power plant? The average radiation level from a coal fired plant is about 1.9 millirem per year which is a level that would cause a nuclear power plant to be shut down. By comparison, the level downwind from Three Mile Island was about 1 millirem per year after reactor #2 did a partial meltdown. In comparison, the average background radiation level is 100-400 millirem per year.
You might want to check the following 2 items and move on from there,
The Electromagnetic Spectrum: Non-Ionizing Radiation and
The Electromagnetic Spectrum: Ionizing Radiation