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Owen Duffy · August 19th 07, 10:45 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna

(Geoffrey S. Mendelson) wrote in
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At worst some neighbor would get ****ed off that you are messing up
their Internet and start a FUD campaign to force you off the air for
"dangerous radiation".

Interesting that you mention that.

Some of our good friends in Tasmania started a FUD campaign to scare
ordinary electricity consumers about the electromagnetic raidation hazard
of electric blankets when they were BPL 'enhanced'.

I think that the last thing that we hams, who radiate much higher field
levels than BPL, would want to do is excite paranoia over EMR hazards.

Didn't we learn anything from the campaign against the visual amenity of
mobile phone infrastructure, they played the EMR FUD like it was an art
form.

If we were ever required to prove the compliance of our stations with EMR
standards using surveys from accredited test houses, we would be off the
air economically, and ham radio would no longer be an experimental
activity.

There is some steady, sound engineering / scientific work going on to
discover and reveal the impact of BPL, it is small in scale but IMHO
credible and ongoing. Uninformed and redneck comment from the amateur
community makes the job just that much harder.

Owen