How To Detect RF Radiation Using Your AM Radio
Posted by Lloyd on November 3, 2011 under Electromagnetic protection, Protection tips | 
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What if you think you have got radio frequency RF radiation in your home but you do not want to, or cannot, go to the expense of buying a dedicated RF meter?
Worry not, you can use your portable AM radio to detect certain radio frequency (RF) sources, otherwise known as electromagnetic fields or EMFs.
How To Detect RF Radiation With Your AM Radio Step By Step
Here is how you can detect RF radiation with your portable radio:
1. Turn your radio dial to the white noise between stations, where there is no radio signal.
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2. Move around turning your radio antenna in all directions.
When you hear it start to hiss this means you are picking up static and that there is a source of radiofrequency radiation present.
Detect RF Radiation Using Your AM Radio – Different Sources
- put your AM radio next to your cell phone when it is switched on. Next get someone to send you a text message, or to call your phone, see what happens
- place your AM radio near a Compact Fluorescent Bulb (CFL), switch it on and listen to what happens.
- hold your AM radio next to your electrical appliances and listed. Many of them are now being equipped with RF transmitters to link up with the smart meters which are being deployed
- move round your house holding your portable AM radio near your electrical sockets, if your radio starts to hiss as you are doing this this is a good indication that there is dirty electricity.
Limitations Of Using Your AM Radio To Detect RF Radiation
You cannot use your AM radio to detect all sources of RF radiation. It won’t pick up certain sources, such as certain Wi-Fi and Wimax sources, which are too high a frequency and don’t generate a strong enough electric field to create static.
In the absence of a dedicated RF meter your AM radio can be a reliable indicator of where radiofrequency fields are present, given the limitations listed above. If you are on a low budget what better way to detect RF radiation than with your AM Radio.
Chris Jones said,
Dear Lloyd, can you publish a list with Rf meter levels of the worst offenders. And put them in order with 1 being the highest level reading you can find.
Lloyd said,
Hi Chris
Thanks for the great question, I published my answer here so I could share it more easily with my readers.
jayasiman raghavan said,
Dear Sir, thank you for the information regarding the AM radio, I would also like to know if there is any danger when a Telco towers is based in front of a water tank.On top of a two story shop house.
Thank you
TOWARDS A RADIATION FREE TOWNSHIP.
Lloyd said,
By Telco tower, I assume you mean telecommunications tower. These towers come in all shapes and sizes, you can usually determine how potent they are by the number of antennas. They all emit RF radiation to some degree, which is neither good for the water in the tower, which people drink afterwards nor the people living near to the tower.
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