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by escherplex 2850 days ago
Good commentary but I wonder if inadvertently you may have been out-of-band in your research.

In 'Auditory Response to Pulsed Radiofrequency Energy - Elder (2003)'

URL: http://www.beperkdestraling.org/images/stories/Wetenschap/Ti... Auditory_Response_to_Pulsed_radiofrequency_energy.pdf

Two salient points crop up:

1) 'The fundamental frequency of RF induced sounds is independent of the frequency of the radiowaves but dependent upon head dimensions.'

2) 'RF hearing has been reported at frequencies ranging from 2.4 to 10 000 MHz (see Table 1). Although Ingalls [1967] mentioned 10 000 MHz as an effective frequency, other investigators found that lower frequencies (8900 and 9500 MHz) at very high exposure levels did not induce RF sounds

In Table 2 the experimental frequency range appears to have been 900MHz to 3GHz so C-band at 4 – 8 GHz (7.5 – 3.75 cm) may have be a too short a wavelength to elicit the effect. - but ham radio operators should be worried :-)

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aside: given it's a long link you have to add

Auditory_Response_to_Pulsed_radiofrequency_energy.pdf

to the address

That... shouldn't break? Let me try:

http://www.beperkdestraling.org/images/stories/Wetenschap/Ti...

Edit: Link seems to work. :)

Ha ha, probably so. It wasn’t research, I was just testing some equipment and figured I try it. It probably works best starting at 1/2 wavelength resonance of the brain, then maybe higher modes where a certain region may be stimulated. Just a hunch.