All this while the air travel industry is considering allowing
passengers to use their own cell phones WHILE THE PLANES ARE IN FLIGHT
by adding cell-phone relay stations to the planes and allowing any
such calls to be completed via satellite. So I guess the feeble
radiation by my FM radio (powered by 2 AAA batteries) is enough to
cause a plane to dive into the ocean, but the guy next to me putting
out 3 watts of near-microwave energy is totally safe.


I can't provide technical details of the operation because I don't know
them; but I am familiar with a number of totally RF screened environments
where use of electronic devices are tightly controlled. However, internal
relays are used to permit operation of cell phones - which I always
understood were specific models which had been certified for such use.

Dave