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Old 28-02-2008, 09:41 PM
jenniwren jenniwren is offline
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Re: Personal Locator Beacons

Blackpatch, Yes, I've read the link. Dr Mercola's article doesn't ring true. There will be no point in having a radio signal that didn't carry information in whatever form (voice, video or digital). Radio signals have been with us for more than one hundred years and not caused health problems. Personal Locator Beacons operate at frequencies lower than TV transmitters and for short periods of time when switched on.

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.....if you had spent the night out injured on the moors in wet, freezing conditions wondering if anyone would ever find you, you would be less critical of technology such as locators, gps and mobile phones.
I agree with Richardkm that you would be grateful for the technology if you were in the above situation.

I think that GPS in cars are a waste of time, but they do not transmit anything. They are receive only. Blackpatch will you be getting rid of your television and radio? Don't take things to such an extreme. There are so many things that can cause life threatening illnesses that people can become paranoid. You don't know if the persons living in the flats were all smokers and that they lived an unhealthy lifestyle. The flats themselves could have contained toxins.
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