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- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 06:51:19 EST
- From: dwn@dwn.ccd.bnl.gov (Dave Niebuhr)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Broadcasting Towers
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- John Higdon <john@zygot.ati.com> writes:
-
- > 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.
-
- > 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.
-
- > [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.
-
- A similar problem occurred not long ago when the National Weather
- Service wanted to put one of its new Doppler Radar systems in a
- community about 15 miles from my house. Naturally, there was a large
- hue and cry about all of the associated EMR problems and the local
- congresscritter (18 years seniority and bounced on Election Day just
- like his checks) took up the call.
-
- After a lot of wrangling and posturing, the new system is going to be
- installed at Brookhaven National Lab, about 20 miles away which is
- where it should have gone in the first place.
-
- Some people just don't think. These people live about 25 miles from
- the defunct Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant and BNL has two working
- reactors right now. Some of the protestors even work at these two
- places.
-
- Sheesh! What hypocrites.
-
-
- Dave
-
-