Comment on Is Baofeng flagrantly lying to the FCC and endangering users? A deep dive

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MotoAsh@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨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).

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