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Taking into Consideration the Inherent Limitations of your HF35C Meter
The deployment of 5G cellphones will be a game changer for radio/microwave detection
meters, because at this writing we do not know what radio frequencies will officially be
government approved for its use, or what EMF detection meters will have the ability to read
those frequencies.
Each generation of cell communication uses different technology (logic processing, signal
design, common language etc) and different providers are allocated different frequencies on
the EMF Spectrum for their licensed use. So measurements of cellphone signals with your
HF35C meter is designed to include signals from all of these systems. This makes it almost
impossibl
e to specifically measure only “4G”, for example.
Another thing to consider when you are metering is that there is almost certainly
radio/microwave ( wireless) signals beyond the detection range of your meter (either below
or above the frequency range that the meter was designed to measure) that are not able to be
measured accurately, or not picked up at all.
This is true of all meters; there is no such thing as ‘one meter to do the job’, the
Electromagnetic Spectrum, of which radio/microwaves are a part, is far too vast to be
measured that way.
So, understandably your meter’s ‘unmeasurable’ range
is likely to increase with changing
technology, and certainly as future demand for 5G grows since innovative technology is now
being created to allow 5G to eventually operate on frequencies in a higher frequency range
than earlier cell technologies are capable of.
Many countries are preparing infrastructure for 5G now with a target mass-roll-out date in
the early 2020’s, and many of them are jockeying fo
r earlier roll-outs to give them perceived
market supremacy.
While 5G will create new data handling capabilities for cellphones, such as higher data
transmission rates that enable instant streaming of full length movies, these higher
frequencies have less ability to travel over as long a distance or penetrate structures. So,
where 1G, 2G, 3G and 4G base stations (cell towers) were designed to broadcast signals over
long distance and penetrate through buildings, landforms and other structures, including
human bodies, the higher frequencies that will be used by 5G cannot be broadcasted in that
way.
