Back in the 1980s there was a period of time during which standards for dangers and exposures to electromagnetic radiation were being reviewed and revised.
Back in the 1980s there was a period of time during which standards for dangers and exposures to electromagnetic radiation were being reviewed and revised.
Prior to that time there was a book by Paul Brodeur called “The Zapping of America.” In the book, which seems to have disappeared from the market, Mr. Brodeur sites corporate and military studies of a whole range of health effects or affects caused by different types of non-ionizing radiation.
Around that time CBS 60 Minutes ran a story about hazards from television and FM high power levels and the public health consequences, including depression, lukemia and cancer. I wrote CBS and asked for a transcript of the program, and they wrote back and said, “There has never been any such program.”
I was involved in FM and TV work and held conversations with engineers, and at one TV station the engineers spoke in a state of fear, because they said they had the highest cancer rate in the station’s building, but needed their jobs. One engineer told that major dental problems resulted from electrolytic reactions between the enamel of teeth and fillings in the teeth, brought about by the RF from the many TV monitors and microwave relay transmitter.
So I did an article in a city magazine titled “The Electronic Soaking of St. Louis.” But the journalistic standard kept me from going full tilt on what I believed, and I only reported what could be definitely proven, which was not too much. I protected the identities of the TV engineers but that weakened my report.
I also had known an engineering union official who was dying of prostate cancer and told by his doctor that his cancer was a result of years working at the 5kW transmitter at 1380kHz. When I asked my doctor, he said, “There’s a lot we don’t know.” When I asked another doctor he said, “If there was something to it we’d know about it.”
The hint and suggestion of RF danger continues to boil. Fine time to be a frog.
Safer Shores Overseas
The US radiation hazard limits have always been suspect and even questioned by experts in other countries such as Russia, where their radiation exposure limit levels are far more restrictive, even decades ago during the nuclear arms race of the Cold War.
PBS ran a show (NOVA) about Nemesis, or “Dark Star”, our Sun’s binary companion which swings around every 3,500 years or so.
That program cannot be found on PBS’s archives or even acknowledged it ever aired…though I have a VHS recording of it and it aired on a Sunday evening in 1986.
After informing the person on the phone at PBS about my recording of that particular program, their reply was “it must have been a different channel”, and the idiot actually tried to argue that point to me even though the video clearly has “NOVA” and “PBS” all over the introduction and end credits!
2+2 is 11. Up is down and left is right and forward is backwards and nothing to see here..move along…..
…oh…your papers please
RFB
But
But that other guy took my papers.
“There is no other guy.”
Except….
“There is no other guy.”
Except the other guy wearing riot gear who says..”I’m from the government, I’m here to help.”
Radiation hazards have been a debated topic for decades. Nothing but a back and forth endless loophole. Don’t count on any answers from them because they do not have any themselves either.
Your best source for info is to ask those who work around radiation sources, such as station engineers, or traffic cops who become sterile after years of clocking speeders with their radar guns. Moral there is to never leave the radar gun on and set it in your lap to take another bite from the doughnut.
In the early years of radio and television, engineers had to stay at the transmitter sites to constantly adjust them.
These days that no longer is the case as transmitters are far more stable and hold their adjustments, plus the remote control systems which can be wired to allow for various adjustments remotely..no need to have someone practically live at the transmitter site.
A well designed and installed system shouldn’t cause too much problems. But if some are going to operate these things with the cabinet door interlocks bypassed and doors wide open and drawers of exciters and amps pulled half way then ya there’s bound to be some excess radiation around!
There are better places to hang out with less health effects…..like a good bar or comfy recliner at home.
RFB
There are better places to
There are better places to hang out with less health effects…..like a good bar..
Yeah, but vodka can cause some ill effects as well.