Comment on Is Baofeng flagrantly lying to the FCC and endangering users? A deep dive
deranger@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
Has anyone received an RF burn from one of these HTs? I’ve never heard of it happening, personally.
Comment on Is Baofeng flagrantly lying to the FCC and endangering users? A deep dive
deranger@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
Has anyone received an RF burn from one of these HTs? I’ve never heard of it happening, personally.
hertz_so_good@lemmy.radio 21 hours ago
I don’t know of any, but I also don’t really know how such an injury would present. Maybe it’s a cumulative long term detriment, which is why the fine print talks about duty cycles in occupational exposure. So maybe we would have no reports of it yet, and no direct provable link even later.
I think it’s a concern, but the bigger issue is the fraudulent presentation of the device as a scanner.
MotoAsh@piefed.social 14 hours ago
If it’s not ionizing radiation, it’s not going to harm someone in any mysterious way. If it’s not burning someone by getting too hot, it’s basically certainly benign to people.
Sensitive to emf electronics might have issue with spurious odd frequencies, but that’s about it.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
I’m about to become very unpopular around here I’m sure, but I use a baofeng uv5x3 daily and have not been burned by it yet. Am I gonna turn into a feral ghoul?
Haven’t noticed any spurious transmissions, then again the closest thing I have to a spectrum analyzer is a flipper zero and I haven’t tried to use that (idk if it would work for this anyway.)
MotoAsh@piefed.social 2 hours ago
You won’t get burned by it unless it’s breaking and you’re direcring touching the chips. It’s simply not enough power to burn anyone unless something is going very wrong (most of the power should be going in to RF transmission, not heat).
In addition, it literally cannot emit the right kinds of energy to produce ionizing radiation. Ionizing radiation starts around 10eV per particle/photon. That’s more energy than visible light photons (green is ~2.4eV, and deep blue is ~3.3eV), which are much more energetic than RF photons. So unless the thing is freaking glowing in colors and sucking down a ton of electricity magically without burning out, it won’t be emitting ionizing radiation.
All that cellphone cancer scare crap from the 90’s/2000’s was and always will be people not understanding the massive difference between “radiation” and “ionizing radiation”.
Even if it turns out it’s emitting spurious transmissions or breaking FCC power limits, all that means is you better not get caught intentionally using it with those settings without licensing (as if the FCC is going around monitoring for slightly abnormal RF anyways).