Topband: RF Issues with Heart Pacemakers

[Bill Weaver]

I worked in engineering for a pacemaker firm for 16 years. About a half dozen of the other engineers were hams too. I never heard of any issues with RF interference (and I surely would have being right in the middle of it). I'm talking about 1990's technology as I have been retired for 20 years.

73,
Bill WE5P

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On Mar 8, 2020, 14:11, at 14:11, Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
>Hi George,
>
>Many years ago, I saw what I considered solid input that these devices 
>are not sensitive to RF at frequencies we use. The laws of physics 
>support that -- RFI is coupled either by by antenna action or a
>magnetic 
>field. Devices like this are far too small for there to me much of 
>either, and proper design requires that their construction reject both 
>means of coupling by their construction.
>
>73, Jim K9YC
>
>On 3/8/2020 7:24 AM, George Taft via Topband wrote:
>> Is there anyone on the TB reflector with experience with this new
>pacemaker device?
>
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