Wow! Lucky guy. Now that's what I call a dead man
switch.

--- Steve <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I remember reading an article in QST about 25 years
> ago about a guy with a
> pacemaker who fired up his HF rig and amplifier.  He
> became unconscious while
> transmitting, but luckily he had a spring-loaded PTT
> button on his mike, so
> when he passed out, he went off-air and recovered.
>
> I assume that nowadays, the shilding on pacemakers
> is more robust than it was
> then.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David W Wood"
> <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 5:17 PM
> Subject: Re: concerns when transmitting in a
> hospital
>
>
> Hello
>
> here in the U.K. all radio transmissions and cell
> phone usage is banned
> in hospitals.  They can adversely affect some
> monitoring equipment.
>
> As a physiotherapist, we are taught not to use short
> wave equipment on
> patients with pacemakers.
> As this struck me to be a bit silly as many hams
> using amps also have
> pacemakers fitted, I contacted my good friend N4AR
> who is a heart
> specialist.
> Bill suggested that it was purely the manufacturers
> of the pacemakers
> who were covering their own backs!
>
> So i guess that the answer is still to use it till
> you are asked not to
> do so, and yet be careful about it!
>
> David
>
>
> In message
> <[log in to unmask]>, Jeff
> Kenyon
> <[log in to unmask]> writes
> >Hi everyone.  I volunteer at a Children's Hospital,
> and I always have my HT
> >with me should something happen either there or
> weather wise, and I have
> >tried getting to some repeaters in different parts
> of the hospital, and for
> >the most part it works fine, though I don't know
> how strong I am into the
> >repeaters when inside parts of the building.  I
> mainly transmit on 2-meters
> >or 440 and have tried them both with no problem
> with some machines, and a
> >few of the patients have been impressed even when I
> tell them all that I can
> >do with ham radio.  Although nobody has complained
> I still am just wondering
> >if anyone else has had other complaints when
> working from within a hospital?
>
> --
> David W Wood





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