"AA5QT" wrote
For the first time in many years, I'm about to put up a 20 meter
monobander on
a tower. The XYL is asking questions I cannot answer, specifically
relating to
RF and birds. I wouldn't want to be a bird sitting on an element when a
KW is
supplied to it? Are my concerns valid?

Gary K5QT

Your concerns, no. The birds, yes.

I push 1kw out of a 1/2 wave horizontal dipole and the birds never choose it
as a resting place. Down near the ground, it hasn't impeded the population
of several Finch, Cardinal, Northern Thrush and Robin families.

Jack
Virginia Beach, VA