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