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DECT with reduced signalling events?
Inge Jones
22-11-2006
I am trying to reduce "electrosmog" in my home so have eliminated wireless devices. However I do miss my DECT phone set and I read that you can buy systems that do not send out signals between the modules until you use it. As we don't use voice phone a lot, that should be ideal.

Has anyone heard of this?
Heinz
22-11-2006
Electrosmog?

Your house is awash with radio signals even if you aren't producing any (e.g. I assume you have no cellphones or routers either).

There are at least 10 terrestrial TV channels, a plethora of broadcast radio channels, a similar plethora of satellite channels, numeous PMR channels, (police) Tetra, etc. etc. etc.

Living in London probably means you are living in one of the most 'radio-splattered' cities in the world.
Last edited by Heinz : 22-11-2006 at 19:48
vanyablue
22-11-2006
Originally Posted by Heinz:
“Electrosmog?

Your house is awash with radio signals even if you aren't producing any (e.g. I assume you have no cellphones or routers either).

There are at least 10 terrestrial TV channels, a plethora of broadcast radio channels, a similar plethora of satellite channels, numeous PMR channels, (police) Tetra, etc. etc. etc.

Living in London probably means you are living in one of the most' radio-splattered' cities in the world.”

Yes, but all these are in the so-called "far field", and basically, very weak. The OP is trying to reduce any emissions in the "near field". i.e. locally strong signals. The best plan is to avoid any RF devices at all. (As you said, cellphones, routers, dect phones etc.)
DevoidDroid
23-11-2006
Wouldn't it be easier to wear a tinfoil suit and a saucepan on your head?
zenith52
24-11-2006
Have you been looking through my living room window!
Heinz
24-11-2006
Originally Posted by vanyablue:
“Yes, but all these are in the so-called "far field", and basically, very weak. The OP is trying to reduce any emissions in the "near field". i.e. locally strong signals. The best plan is to avoid any RF devices at all. (As you said, cellphones, routers, dect phones etc.)”

And, whatever you do, don't have a CRT TV in the house, the amount of RF they output would frighten you to death.
Inge Jones
25-11-2006
Sorry I didn't come back to this thread before, I was waiting for the site to send me an update email! Oh well.

Anyway, I have one of those machines that make a noise when it picks up a signal, and the noise it made when I held it near our DECT phone was very different and much louder everything else I held it near, even TV sets! This was only matched in strength (but not rhythm) by something the house next door has, which I think might be their baby monitor. But anyway that's only loud in our corridor and has weakened a lot by the time we go into a room. However as we want handsets in many of the rooms, the DECT signal in our house would be in all of them.

I want to buy a new set of DECTs and I would have been interested to try out the ones I read about that were unfortunately not named by brand.
+3dB
29-11-2006
Simple scientific fact is that you're exposed to a hell of a lot more RF every day that you'd get from any DECT phone, wi-fi router or even mobile phone.

Life's too short to be worrying about the media-induced panic de jour.
Inge Jones
02-12-2006
Please, I wasn't looking to reopen this old debate. It's fun to experiment with new technology if it's available, I don't want to always wait for "scientists" to pontificate on it. Sometimes I want to try things out for myself and see what *I* experience.
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