[TowerTalk] OT but relevant

[Roger (K8RI) on TT]

It all depends.  I have a defib with a pacemaker back-up.  The only 
restriction was no cell phones in my shirt pocket.
I can arc weld and run the legal limit on any band.
It's been so long that I've forgotten who made it and I don't know where 
my wife stashed the papers.
Most, but not all, of these devices are pretty much RFI proof.   I 
researched the web and found the best claimed RFI proof  by I believe it 
was the Cleveland center (Institute - Clinic). At any rate that was what 
they use here and max power on HF plus several hundred watts on 50, 144, 
and 50W on  440 (Legal limit in this part of Michigan) have never 
bothered it.

They gave me a tutorial on welding which basically said, do not run the 
cables in front of my chest, but run them up each side.
The programming is done via 900 MHz digital   I do have a monitor at 
home that does a diagnostic twice a year and would call home were there 
an event.

I had a stroke, then 3 years later a heart attack and in 3 more another 
stroke before "they" discovered the problem was my heart (A-fib) after 
prolonged elevated heart rate.
All came with no advanced warning.  So no more climbing, or flying 
airplanes.  Had any of them happened while flying or climbing, I would 
have been SOL.

73 es good luck.

Roger (K8RI)


On 2/25/2016 Thursday 12:01 PM, Kathy Bookmiller via TowerTalk wrote:
> Sorry about this but it may affect many of us eventually.
> Yesterday I went for a stress test and got some bad results. I have a left bundle block and they want to me to have a pacemaker implanted ASAP.
> Obviously this is distressful as I've been in excellent health for my 68 years and now this:(
> One of my first thoughts was are pacemakers prone to RFI? I asked the surgeon about this and he said he'd never heard of this before in his practice.
> I'm wondering if any of the readers here have had any experience with pacemakers/RFI issues? I know over the years I've seen references to it in an offhand way but didn't pay much attention as it didn't apply to myself at the time.
> My beam is only 20-25' directly above me, as can be seen on my qrz page.
> Any thoughts/experiences?
> Kathy W2NK
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Roger (K8RI)


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