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📣 Podgajski

EMF Exposure from Starlink Satellites?


I’m trying to understand EMF exposure from Starlink satellites. Am I right to assume that anyone within the 15 mile cell area would be exposed to EMFs if someone is using a Starlink receiver?

In other words, if I had a millimeter wave meter would I be able to pick up any V/m in this 15 mile cell area?

Please reference the article below.

http://www.satmagazine.com/story.php?number=1026762698#:~:te....

  👤 ksaj Accepted Answer ✓
Yes, in the same way you are exposed to every other cell signal that can reach you, every television station that can reach you, every radio that can reach you, every radar used to track planes in the sky, and so on.

A receiver receives. Some receivers emit no emfs (and there used to be a satellite service that worked this way - received by satellite, transmitted over a landline phone.) They are still receiving though. There is literally no escaping the various waves that surround us constantly.

Some people are concerned about this emf exposure, but it requires absolutely ignoring the very many other sources that you are exposed to at every second of the day you aren't hiding in a Faraday cage.

👤 stop50
yes.