"R J Carpenter" wrote in message
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"David Eduardo" wrote in message
...

The thoroughly undocumented cases (no studies of groundwater
contamination,
etc.) was based on the effects of stations with twice the power allowed
in
the US on AMs.

Low levels of AM as experienced in the US would be very different.

While I think this whole thing is just another pseudo-science scare.... It
is NOT true that US stations have much lower field strength on AM. AFAIK,
very few foreign stations are directional at any power. Some US 50 kW
stations have pretty potent ERP in their beam. Not a megawatt, but quite
a
bit nevertheless.

the field strength of AM radio stations is measured in volts (microvolts)
not watts.

the field strength is inversely proportional to the square of the distance.

any study that relates any form of radiation, electromagnetic or otherwise
that does not refer to quantities measurements AND duration of exposure to
some other effect such as Leukemia is worthless.


I'm a lot more worried about teens and others I see wandering around with
a
cell-phone permanently attached less than an inch from their brain.

"R J Carpenter" wrote in message
...

I'm a lot more worried about teens and others I see wandering around with
a
cell-phone permanently attached less than an inch from their brain.


And their retinas as well..... 900 mhz --- I can recall around 20 years
ago (don't get on my case as to whether it was 16 or 22 or 18 years ago) but
the FCC advised the amateur radio community that if you don't do something
to increase your numbers, we're gonna have to start taking your VHF, UHF,
microwave allocations away. This spectrum is too valuable for you to hold
when your numbers are declining and you're not using them anyway.

They (FCC) discussed a codeless "communicator" license. The ARRL countered
with a "Novice Enhancement" program, which satisfied the Morse Code fetish
requirement, and, as it turned out, did not bring the 50,000 new hams
per year into the service as they claimed it would. But anyway, IIRC,
somebody's idea was to allow novices voice privileges on 902 Mhz, and it
was not considered seriously , and one of the reasons cited was safety.

It's not the radiation. It's the hatred.

On 18 Aug 2004 14:15:19 GMT, "lsmyer" wrote:

This is a link to an article investigating leukemia rates in areas near AM
transmitters.

http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,64579,00.html

I don't doubt that high levels of RF can be dangerous. The first two chief
engineers I worked with both died of cancer in their 50s.

Maybe they got cancer from some other cause (both smoked), but I still feel
like I'm inside a microwave oven anytime I'm around an AM transmitter site.

In article , lsmyer wrote:

I don't doubt that high levels of RF can be dangerous. The first two chief
engineers I worked with both died of cancer in their 50s.

Maybe they got cancer from some other cause (both smoked), but I still feel
like I'm inside a microwave oven anytime I'm around an AM transmitter site.

These were folks who engaged in common engineering practices like soaking
a rag in carbon tetrachloride to clean PCB oil from failed capacitors out
of transmitter chassis, right? God knows we all did that sort of thing...
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

The answer to your questions are right here in the FCC's OET56


http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineeri...56/oet56e4.pdf



"lsmyer" wrote in message
...
This is a link to an article investigating leukemia rates in areas near AM
transmitters.

http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,64579,00.html

I don't doubt that high levels of RF can be dangerous. The first two chief
engineers I worked with both died of cancer in their 50s.

Maybe they got cancer from some other cause (both smoked), but I still
feel
like I'm inside a microwave oven anytime I'm around an AM transmitter
site.

lsmyer wrote:

This is a link to an article investigating leukemia rates in areas near AM
transmitters.

http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,64579,00.html

I don't doubt that high levels of RF can be dangerous. The first two chief
engineers I worked with both died of cancer in their 50s.

Maybe they got cancer from some other cause (both smoked), but I still feel
like I'm inside a microwave oven anytime I'm around an AM transmitter site.




AM Radio is harmful only if you listen to it.