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    Jiri Polivka writes a letter to Nancy Friedrich responding to her article on wireless power transmission. He notes that transmitting 1mW of power over 1 meter using a 10W transmitter at 900MHz has been known since 1900. While this could charge small devices, scaling it to provide 1W of power for electronic gadgets would be challenging. He also raises a concern about potential health effects from multiple high-power transmitters operating at 900MHz. In a separate document, the editors of Microwaves & RF apologize for incorrectly stating in a new product listing that a single broadband-microwave converter from Elcom Technologies costs $800,000, when that price was actually for total orders of the product.

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    Jiri Polivka writes a letter to Nancy Friedrich responding to her article on wireless power transmission. He notes that transmitting 1mW of power over 1 meter using a 10W transmitter at 900MHz has been known since 1900. While this could charge small devices, scaling it to provide 1W of power for electronic gadgets would be challenging. He also raises a concern about potential health effects from multiple high-power transmitters operating at 900MHz. In a separate document, the editors of Microwaves & RF apologize for incorrectly stating in a new product listing that a single broadband-microwave converter from Elcom Technologies costs $800,000, when that price was actually for total orders of the product.

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    Jiri Polivka writes a letter to Nancy Friedrich responding to her article on wireless power transmission. He notes that transmitting 1mW of power over 1 meter using a 10W transmitter at 900MHz has been known since 1900. While this could charge small devices, scaling it to provide 1W of power for electronic gadgets would be challenging. He also raises a concern about potential health effects from multiple high-power transmitters operating at 900MHz. In a separate document, the editors of Microwaves & RF apologize for incorrectly stating in a new product listing that a single broadband-microwave converter from Elcom Technologies costs $800,000, when that price was actually for total orders of the product.

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    Wireless Devices at 900 MHz, you get 1 mW DC over that


    one meter (if you find a very good RF
    Nancy Friedrich responds: Thank you,
    Jiri. I’m glad you enjoyed the article. You
     IT WAS WITH MUCH INTEREST rectifier). Such power can charge a 100- made some great points.
    that I read Nancy Friedrich’s editorial µF capacitor over a minute, and blink
    on wireless power transmission (“Ener- an LED several times.
    gy-Harvesting Solution Powers Wire- I do not see how to feed electronic gad- New Product Correction
    less Devices,” Breaking News, January gets which need up to 1 W. Yes, there
    2007 Microwaves & RF Notepad.) is an option: connect them directly to the  THERE IS AN ERROR in a New
    This time they did it at 900 MHz! This power supply feeding the transmitter. That Product listing from Elcom Technolo-
    is a problem that Mr. Tesla already would not be wireless, I suppose, but effi- gies that was titled “26.5-GHz Down-
    tried to solve. It comes back again and cient enough. converter Offers 500-MHz Bandwidth”
    again. And we failed to address the health in the January 2007 issue of Microwaves
    The fact that Ms. Friedrich wrote, that effects of such multiple generators of & RF Notepad. The last sentence in
    you can get ~1 mW over one meter from tens of watts at 900 MHz. But everybody the listing reads, “The broadband-
    a 10-W transmitter, has been known is very afraid of cell-phone radiation microwave version costs approximately
    since 1900; possibly even Mr. Hertz and brain cancer. A considerable amount $800,000.” Elcom Technologies had
    was able to prove that electromagnetic of money has been and is being spent to actually received orders for the broad-
    waves in free space propagate with do more research. Possibly, this will band-microwave version that totalled
    inverse-square attenuation. Later, we encourage more money to pour in for $800,000. One single unit is not priced
    learned that close to the antenna, field research purposes. (Wasn’t that the at $800,000, as was stated in the list-
    intensity drops even faster, with inverse- main purpose?) ing in Microwaves & RF Notepad. We
    cube proportionality. Thank you for an interesting read. apologize to Elcom Technologies and
    So, this is all a very unexpected dis- Jiri Polivka to our readers for the error.
    covery. Now, with a 10-W transmitter Spacek Labs, Inc. The Editors of Microwaves & RF

    Microwaves & RF  FEBRUARY 2007 visit www.mwrf.com 13

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