"Dot" wrote in message
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On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 19:31:01 +0000 (UTC), "Reg Edwards"
wrote:

I am now in my 81st year. Still alive. I have fathered 5 healthy
children and have grandchildren. Draw your own conclusions about
the
real dangers of electromagnetic radiation.

In the interests of caution and safety... I would congratulate you
on
becoming an octogenarian, having a fine brood of kids and grandkids,
and I'd
wish to be so lucky... but then I'd remind you just how darned lucky
you
are.
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I'm not lucky. I'm just an ordinary person. My genetic history
remains unaffected by high-power electromagnetic radiation. On the
contrary, it seems to have done me good!

But if I should eventually die with a brain tumour no doubt my
electromagnetic history will unjustly be blamed. ;o)
----
Reg.

Incidentally, in 1945, I was an unsuspecting guinea pig sent to the
radioactive aftermath of Hiroshima for a week or so.

Again, my genetic history appears to have remained unaffected.
Perhaps, as you say, I am lucky.

I am just another very minor statistic, like everybody else, in the
field of statistics and probability. See the widespread works of Sir
Ronald Arthur Fisher, the greatest statistician of all time who died
in the 1960's. Just imagine what he could have done with just a
modern pocket calculator, never mind a personal computer.
----
Reg.

Anyone that was involved with the Nike Hercules missile system in the
late Fifties and through the early Seventies was around high powered
pulse radar. It was deployed around major metropolitan areas in the
States and other places around the globe.

All the tracking stuff was short pulse "X" band and maybe a couple
hundred watts average.

But the big stuff was the acquistion or search radar that was "L" band.
The one I worked with in Korea was maybe 5 or 6 megawatts peak and 4 or
5 kw average on the "L" band.

Some Stateside sites had the big G.E. "L" band job that was fairly long
pulse and put out 10 megawatts peak and 18-20 kw average. I was real
pleased that it had a rack mounted Bird wattmeter and I was impressed
to see a solid 18-20 kw average power running through the waveguide to
the antenna.

The range radar was Ku band (15-17 kmc) (TRR to you Nike guys) and one
of the old timers I worked with told me that if you directed the
antenna towards an individual, he would feel the heat. And I'm sure
that's true. We're all familiar with microwave cooking.

John