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- Subject: Info-Hams Digest V94 #945
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- Info-Hams Digest Mon, 22 Aug 94 Volume 94 : Issue 945
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- Today's Topics:
- RF hazards
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- Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1994 06:48:18 GMT
- From: news.Hawaii.Edu!kahuna!jeffrey@ames.arpa
- Subject: RF hazards
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- I'd worry more about living near broadcast towers. Both the EPA and FCC
- conducted a joint study here in Honolulu to determine why there was a
- significant above-normal rate of lukemia in residents living near a
- bcst tower containing 3 AM bcst transmitters (yes Gary, this is commonly
- done here in Honolulu - the folks on rec.radio.broadcasting will explain
- how it's done). The upshot of the study was that the tower was
- dismantled (but not before some local hams hooked up a 160M xmtr
- to it!).
-
- Honolulu has the distinction of having the highest RF backround
- radiation level than any other city in the nation. AM towers sit
- in residential and commercial districts; FM and TV towers sit atop
- highrise hotels and office buildings. The window washer at my dad's
- condo used to draw sparks between his scaffolding and the window
- frames (a 3-transmitter AM bcst tower was 50 yards from the
- building, which, after years of the residents petitioning the
- FCC and tower owner, was finally moved).
-
- The reason we have such a high level of RF is that 90% of the state's
- 1.1 million population reside in Honolulu (nation's 11th largest city)
- - that makes us a sort of city-state (similar to Singpore?) -
- so all the broadcasters (and there are lots!) have located their
- towers in this one and only city of the entire state.
-
- Jeff NH6IL
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- Date: 22 Aug 1994 06:36:51 -0400
- From: yale.edu!noc.near.net!shore.shore.net!shore.shore.net!not-for-mail@yale.arpa
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
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- References <32ua9p$m0n@adm09.iac.honeywell.com>, <CuunEJ.KHo@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu>, <1994Aug21.120025.1@aspen.uml.edu>le.
- Subject : Re: Why Some people hate Wayne Green
-
- I have been a 73 reader since the mid Sixties and have found Wayne Green
- W2NSD/2 interesting, entertaining and controversial. He's Ham Radio's
- original "Bad Boy". Every organized effort humans involve themselves in
- should have a "devil's advocate" or whatever you wish to call it.
-
- Two political parties are better than one. The ARRL is necessary as a
- lobby group to keep the Bureaucrats in DC from taking our bands away from
- us ( especially the VHF-UHF bands which are jealously coveted by the two-way
- radio industry. Don't forget the 220MHz band that UPS spent mucho bucks
- to get from us and doesn't even use!) In my opinion, Wayne is and has
- been the guy that keeps the League on its toes.
-
- I've heard Wayne Green speak on several occasions at hamfests and he
- always draws a huge crowd. Many people criticize him for all kinds of
- reasons. I don't always agree with his views, but he certainly makes the
- political side of our hobby colorful and interesting.
-
- H. Michael Crestohl
-
- KH6KD/W1
- VE2XZ
-
- mc@shore.net
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