This might bring new meaning to "amateur radio control" if one of your neighbors has one of these implanted devices and you're running some high power on 432 MHz.
One more thing to make HAMS (and some ham radio operators too) even more paranoid about getting on the air.
I talked to one the other night on 75. He was pisweak on AM, running about 25 watts with a ricebox at 2 AM, but he was still too paranoid to turn on his amplifier. He explained that his neighbors didn't object when he ran full power on slopbucket, but complained whenever he ran even 25w on AM. He said the problem was audio rectification in computers, stereos, telephones, etc.
I reminded him that the audio section in consumer junk is not supposed to receive radio signals at all. If it does, it is a malfunction of the consumer junk, not the fault of his transmitter, and that although he should try to work with the neighbors to remedy the problem, he should not let that keep him off the air. In other words,
co-operate but operate. But he indicated that would be too much hassle, and that he would just go on operating mostly slopbucket even though he would dearly love to operate more on AM.
