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Abby's Magazine - Volume 4 Issue 5| Page 47 • Use a Land Line at Home and at Work: Although more and more people are switching to using cell phones as their exclusive phone contact, it is a dangerous trend and you can choose to opt out of the madness. SKYPE offers a portable number via your computer that can plug into any Ethernet port while traveling. • Reduce or Eliminate Your Use of Other Wireless Devices: You would be wise to cut down your use of these devices. Just as with cell phones, it is important to ask yourself whether or not you really need to use them as o en as you do. And most importantly, do not even consider having any electronic or wireless devices in the bedroom that will interfere with the quality of your sleep. If you must use a portable home phone, use the older kind that operates at 900 MHz. They are not safer during calls, but at least many of them do not broadcast constantly even when no call is being made. Note the only way to truly be sure if there is an exposure from your cordless phone is to measure with an electrosmog meter, and it must be one that goes up to the frequency of your portable phone (so old meters won't help much). As many portable phones are 5.8 Gigahertz, we recommend you look for RF meters that go up to 8 Gigahertz, the highest range now available in a meter suitable for consumers. Alterna vely you can be very careful with the base sta on placement as that causes the bulk of the problem since it transmits signals 24/7, even when you aren't talking. So if you can keep the base sta on at least three rooms away from where you spend most of your me, and especially your bedroom, they may not be as damaging to your health. Another op on is to just simply turn the portable phone off, only using it when you specifically need the convenience of moving about while on a call. Ideally it would be helpful to turn off your base sta on every night before you go to bed. You can find RF meters as well as remedia on supplies at www. emfsafetystore.com. But you can pre y much be sure your portable phone is a problem if the technology is DECT, or digitally enhanced cordless technology. • Use Your Cell Phone Only Where Recep on is Good: The weaker the recep on, the more power your phone must use to transmit, and the more power it uses, the more radia on it emits, and the deeper the dangerous radio waves penetrate into your body. Ideally, you should only use your phone with full bars and good recep on. • Avoid Carrying Your Phone on Your Body as that merely maximizes any poten al exposure. Ideally put it in your purse or carrying bag. Placing a cell phone in a shirt pocket over the heart is asking for trouble, as is placing it in a man's pocket if he seeks to preserve his fer lity. • Don't Assume One Cell Phone is Safer than Another: There's no such thing as a "safe" cell phone. This is par cularly true for industry promoted SAR ra ngs, which are virtually useless in measuring the true poten al biological danger as most all of the damage is not done by heat transfer, which SAR measures. • Keep Your Cell Phone Away From Your Body When it is On: The most dangerous place to be, in terms of radia on exposure, is within about six inches of the emi ng antenna. You do not want any part of your body within that area. • Respect Others Who are More Sensi ve: Some people who have become sensi ve can feel the effects of others' cell phones in the same room, even when it is on but not being used. If you are in a mee ng, on public transporta on, in a courtroom or other public places, such as a doctor's office, keep your cell phone turned off out of considera on for the 'second hand radia on' effects. Children are also more vulnerable, so please avoid using your cell phone near children. If you are using the Pong case, which redirects the cell phone radia on away from the head and successfully lowers the SAR effect, realize that in redirec ng the radia on away from your head this may be intensifying the radia on in another direc on, perhaps toward the person next to you, or, if in your pocket, increasing radia on intensity toward your body. Cau on is always advised in dealing with any radia on-emi ng device. We recommend cell phones be kept 'Off' except for emergencies. • Use Safer Headset Technology: Wired headsets will certainly allow you to keep the cell phone farther away from your body. However, if a wired headset is not well shielded -- and most of them are not -- the wire itself acts as an antenna a rac ng ambient radio waves and transmi ng radia on directly to your brain. Make sure that the wire used to transmit the signal to your ear is shielded. The best kind of headset to use is a combina on shielded wire and air-tube headset. These operate like a stethoscope, transmi ng the informa on to your head as an actual sound wave; although there are wires that s ll must be shielded, there is no wire that goes all the way up to your head.

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