I've been trying to avoid this subject, but as things are getting out of hand I feel I have to address this issue before people get hurt.
This was a hard video to make as it is inevitably technical, so it had to be simplified to avoid becoming a long video only suited to RF geeks. The frequencies I mentioned will vary according to provider and geographical location. Some providers may use higher frequencies, but they introduce coverage issues with some building construction materials.
There are over 1600 technical videos on this channel and only ONE that has comments disabled. The reason? Not censorship, but because of comment-bombing. Pasting the same reply linking to biased research on almost every single comment left by others. The comment area on this channel is very active and I spend a lot of time every single day replying to genuinely technical questions. That was being limited by the amount of time being spent cleaning up the mess left by the disciples of the AFG cult.
For reference, the 60GHz frequency is considerably attenuated by oxygen and as such is only used for very short links between towers. It has already been in use for a while.
The prototype military weapon based on it used absolutely massive amounts of RF energy to heat the air and cause the sensation of a heat wave. The communications applications use very low power as they just need to send a weak signal to a receiver. Comparing an energy weapon to a communication system is like comparing an elephant to an ant.
The grid of low power beacons being considered will be a fraction of the number of 2.4GHz and 5GHz wifi routers, phones, tablets and laptops in almost every single home already. They will transmit on similar frequencies to existing 4G, but will be lower power as they are closer. This also means your phone will transmit at lower power too as it doesn't have to communicate so far.
At this point in time I know of no street light heads with any 5G circuitry in them. The antennas are for low level communication for turning the lights on and off and most don't use the phone network at all.
There are concept units that are suitable for use as public wifi access points (actually very similar to the small area communication idea) but they are an obvious big chunky add-on about the same size as the LED light itself.
So my own personal opinion is that a sensibly implemented 5G system is safe. If implemented properly it will reduce your exposure to RF energy, nit just in the street, but also from your own phone, since it won't have to transmit anywhere near as much power to communicate with a small local beacon.
If the scaremongering, incitement of vandalism and targeting of street lighting and communication workers results in an injury or death, then the people responsible for causing that should be held accountable. You wouldn't like to be attacked at your work, so don't think it's acceptable to do it to others.
It appears that 3G may get phased out before 2G, with 2G being maintained to service all the legacy GSM control systems.
Here's a link to the Wikipedia page about the electromagnetic spectrum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_spectrum
ICNIRP RF guidelines. (International Commission on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection.)
https://www.icnirp.org/en/activities/news/news-article/rf-guidelines-2020-published.html
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This was a hard video to make as it is inevitably technical, so it had to be simplified to avoid becoming a long video only suited to RF geeks. The frequencies I mentioned will vary according to provider and geographical location. Some providers may use higher frequencies, but they introduce coverage issues with some building construction materials.
There are over 1600 technical videos on this channel and only ONE that has comments disabled. The reason? Not censorship, but because of comment-bombing. Pasting the same reply linking to biased research on almost every single comment left by others. The comment area on this channel is very active and I spend a lot of time every single day replying to genuinely technical questions. That was being limited by the amount of time being spent cleaning up the mess left by the disciples of the AFG cult.
For reference, the 60GHz frequency is considerably attenuated by oxygen and as such is only used for very short links between towers. It has already been in use for a while.
The prototype military weapon based on it used absolutely massive amounts of RF energy to heat the air and cause the sensation of a heat wave. The communications applications use very low power as they just need to send a weak signal to a receiver. Comparing an energy weapon to a communication system is like comparing an elephant to an ant.
The grid of low power beacons being considered will be a fraction of the number of 2.4GHz and 5GHz wifi routers, phones, tablets and laptops in almost every single home already. They will transmit on similar frequencies to existing 4G, but will be lower power as they are closer. This also means your phone will transmit at lower power too as it doesn't have to communicate so far.
At this point in time I know of no street light heads with any 5G circuitry in them. The antennas are for low level communication for turning the lights on and off and most don't use the phone network at all.
There are concept units that are suitable for use as public wifi access points (actually very similar to the small area communication idea) but they are an obvious big chunky add-on about the same size as the LED light itself.
So my own personal opinion is that a sensibly implemented 5G system is safe. If implemented properly it will reduce your exposure to RF energy, nit just in the street, but also from your own phone, since it won't have to transmit anywhere near as much power to communicate with a small local beacon.
If the scaremongering, incitement of vandalism and targeting of street lighting and communication workers results in an injury or death, then the people responsible for causing that should be held accountable. You wouldn't like to be attacked at your work, so don't think it's acceptable to do it to others.
It appears that 3G may get phased out before 2G, with 2G being maintained to service all the legacy GSM control systems.
Here's a link to the Wikipedia page about the electromagnetic spectrum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_spectrum
ICNIRP RF guidelines. (International Commission on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection.)
https://www.icnirp.org/en/activities/news/news-article/rf-guidelines-2020-published.html
If you enjoy these videos you can help support the channel with a dollar for coffee, cookies and random gadgets for disassembly at:-
http://www.bigclive.com/coffee.htm
This also keeps the channel independent of YouTube's advertising algorithms allowing it to be a bit more dangerous and naughty.