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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 22:17 PST
- From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Broadcasting Towers
- Reply-To: John Higdon <john@zygot.ati.com>
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- Hector Salgado-Galicia <hs1c+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
-
- > A friend of mine is doing research for a group of clients. They want
- > to keep communications towers away from their neighborhood. Could
- > someone comment on regulations at the City, State or Federal level
- > that could be employed to support their case?
-
- The trendy approach is to claim "potential health hazards" from the
- EMR. After working in the broadcast business for many years around
- very high-powered transmitters, someone decided that it was
- "dangerous" to be exposed to radio frequency energy. Based upon
- inconclusive tests on animals and on some nifty sounding theories, the
- Federal government adopted the ANSI standards regarding "safe" EMR
- exposure.
-
- Harm based on "evil, mysterious forces" is in vogue. Even if science
- or reality is not on your side, it should be no trouble to convince
- governmental authorities that placement of communications towers in
- populated areas will produce a strain of mutants.
-
- BTW, you realize that we are all going to die of cancer from using our
- cellular phones, do you not?
-
-
- John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 264 4115 | FAX:
- john@ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | 10288 0 700 FOR-A-MOO | +1 408 264 4407
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: I think if I were going to make objections to a
- tower, the objections would be based on esthetic considerations and
- also on the difficulty of receiving radio signals other than those of
- the nearby tower due to the dense radiation it was emiting. As an
- example, I am thinking of the towers for WBBM (780-AM) and WGN (720-AM)
- in one of the western suburbs of Chicago. As we drive down the street
- within about a half-mile of either tower, the signal from each tower
- completely overwhelms our car radio. No matter where we tune on the AM
- dial, all we get is WBBM ... then a short distance later WGN overloads
- the radio in the same way. People living in the area have to have
- filters on their phone lines.
-
- In the northwest corner of Indiana, the residents of North Hammond get
- WYCA-FM in their telephones, on their computer speakers and everything
- else. The transmitter and antenna of WYCA-FM (Northern Indiana
- Christian Broadcasters, Inc.) is only four blocks away, in a large
- empty field in Burnham, Illinois. For more information on what living
- near a radio station transmitter/tower can do to disrupt your normal
- telephone, radio and television listening habits, see the article
- "Praise the Lord and Pass the RF Filters" in a 1989 issue of this
- Digest. Maybe I should reprint it. PAT]
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