UNCONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT
Your neighborhood is considered an uncontrolled environment. Anyone outside your property lines is part of an uncontrolled environment, because they don't have a say in your operating habits. Most of them don't even know that you are even exposing them to RF energy. They have no control over the energy you are exposing them to. In order to protect unknowing citizens, the FCC sets special limits for the strengths of the RF fields you expose people to.

The FCC averages the safe MAXIMUM Exposure Levels in an uncontrolled environment over a time period of thirty (30) minutes.



CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT
The controlled environment is the environment over which you and your household have "control" over. Those in your house are knowingly subject to the RF fields you generate as you transmit. Because they can stop or "control" your transmission habits, and because fields in the controlled environment are of much higher strength than in the uncontrolled environment,the FCC treats the controlled environment differently. The FCC calculates safe exposure levels for a controlled environment over a period of time of 6 minutes.

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