Lets not forget, an amateur license carries a higher degree of respect
than does a non licensed device.


With whom? Most people still have no accurate idea what a Ham is!

In regards to this ancient thread - my cellphone has triggered the alarms at
the checkouts more than once. These alarms relied on reradiation of
harmonics and perhaps some non-linear device within the phone did just that.

The store did not go into an anti-theft frenzy. The girl looked up from her
register, I took my phone off my belt, waved it past the detector, it
beeped, I walked through after it, it didn't beep, problem solved. There is
no big issue here.

Brad VK2QQ