Ted,
You can't be serious! Obviously a hoax. Beside, the locals have no
legal jurisdiction over a federally licensed station.
Joe
www.wc4r.com
www.WilliamsburgWX.com
> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 14:23:39 -0400
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Drakelist] Please no flaming ...
>
> **I hope that this is a hoax , But if it is not what should we as
hams
> do ???
>
> Please no flaming for the use of bandwidth as I really believe
that if
> this is true it would be worth taking a stand against
> **
>
> **Here is something that all hams should be interested in! Who
knows
> what and who will be next!**
>
> ted
>
>
>
> California County Taking Actions To Silence ALL Ham Activity
>
>
> >From http://www.radiobanter.com/
>
> San Luis Obispo county supervisors took drastic and unprecedented
action
> yesterday by passing an ordinance that would prohibit amateur radio
> operators, known as "hams", from operating their transmitting
stations. The
> measure was put in place to eliminate what officials said were
health risks
> associated with transmitters located close to children. A legal
struggle is
> expected.
>
> By a vote of 4 to 1 with one abstention, the governing board of
SLO county
> took
> action aimed at addressing a recent Stanford University study that
> showed a correlation between ham radios and attention de ficit
disorder and
> hyperactivity in children, as well as nagging reports of
interference
> caused
> by radio hams operating their high-powered transmitters in
residential
> neighborhoods.
>
> "Our primary responsibility is to provide a safe environment for
> children to
> live without the dangerous effects of radio waves constantly
bombarding
> them
> and causing proven neurological and psychological problems," said
E. Duane
> Nyborg, an attorney who represented the county in several court
cases in
> the
> past year. "Hams are not the only culprits, but they are usually
in very
> close proximity to children and are no doubt a major contributor
to the
> health problems we've been seeing. The interference is just the
last straw
> that convinced the county that something had to be done about it."
>
> Atascadero
> city manager Laura Lopez said that she has seen a tenfold
> increase in the number of complaints of interference from ham radio
> operators in the last six months. New housing developments which
have
> dramatically increased the population there and placed homes
unusually
> close
> to each other are the predominant contributing factor. Similar
conditions
> exist in most of the county.
>
> "We have radio hams getting into toasters, electric pianos, light
bulbs,
> everything, from their powerful transmitters that cause all this
static.
> Many of our citizens can't use basic appliances or watch
television because
> of all the junk that the hams are broadcasting," she tol d the
> Press-Telegram
> by telephone.
>
> Hams can't say they didn't see this coming. They were warned by
the county
> last year that if they did not submit to a check of their
stations by
> officials, they would have limits imposed on their operation. Few
> consented
> to the searches, which most decried as invasive. But nobody
expected a
> total
> ban on transmissions.
>
> "This is outrageous. You'd better believe we're going to fight
back and
> win.
> This is a totalitarian seizure of our rights that is totally
illegal and
> can't
> stand up," said Frank Wilson, a local ham club president. He said
there
> were
> no formal plans for an appeal yet but preparations were underway.
>
> Wilson claims that a federal preemption of local zoning
ordinances, called
> PRB-1, delineates three rules for local municipalities to follow in
> accomodating antenna structures such as are used by hams. But
Nyborg says
> that PRB-1 applies to antenna structures only, and not the
transmitters
> used
> to feed the antennas with a radio signal. "We know all about
PRB-1. That's
> why we said nothing about antennas. This law is not about
antennas. It goes
> after the root of the problem, which is the transmitters
> that put out huge
> signals that get into the brains of our children and short-
circuit them
> out.
> Those are the facts, that's what the scientific evidence points
to," he
> said
> at a news conference called shortly after the county's action.
>
> In 2008, a grou p of researchers in the school of Environmental
Health and
> Safety at Stanford published their findings that exposure to ham
radio
> signals for three hours per day increased the risk of
hyperactivity and
> related disorders by 10% in children aged 12 and under. This
effect was
> seen
> when a typical ham radio was turned on up to ¼ mile away. The
San Luis
> Obispo city office says that up to 11,000 children in that city
live that
> close to a ham radio station.
>
> The Stanford study showed that frequencies around 3.5, 7, and 14
Megahertz
> were the most harmful, but that the danger existed all the way up
to 450
> Megahertz and above.
>
> "We know where the hams
> are, that information is easy to get on the
> Internet," said former mayor of Paso Robles and current county
supervisor
> Anthony Wu. "Most of these guys are running one hundred watts of
power,
> that's
> an incredible amount of radiation, and you can't block it out. It
enters
> your house, it gets into your body and does a lot of damage there."
>
> Cindy MacMahon, 41, of Morro Bay, soccer mom of two and volunteer
at city
> bake sales, praised the action by the board of supervisors and
looked
> forward to radio-free days ahead. "I'm always getting
interference on my TV
> and stereo that I'm sure is from the guy down the street with his
big
> tower.
> I don't know why they even allow those big, ugly things. I know
that my
> kids
> are harder to control whe n he turns that thing on and I've been
saying
> that
> for three years."
>
> Most area hams were totally unaware of the new law and Wilson
believes
> there
> will be a revolt when
> they discover it. "I will be speaking about it at our
> club meeting on Friday. We would normally disseminate the
information by
> radio, but of course that's illegal for the moment."
>
> Amateur radio operator Clay Collins of Pismo Beach, was
incredulous. "We
> provide free emergency communications for the county, we assist
the police
> department, we help out several times a year on all manner of
public
> events,
> and this is the thanks we get. Someone is badly informed. Next
thing you
> know, we'll be accused of being responsible for global warming."
Another
> radio ham who identified himself only as "Deke" said that
although a number
> of hams were mobilizing to do what they could he was pessimistic.
"I
> actually know that Nyborg guy. He walks around twelve hours a day
with a
> cell phone up to his head and yet he's worried about the tiny
amount of
> radiation from my transmitter." Deke claims that the frequencies
of a cell
>
> phone are close to that of a microwave oven. "You hold a [cell]
phone up to
> your head, you're cooking your brain slowly," he warned.
>
> Collins, a ham of fifty-three years and grandfather of six, lives
in a
> housing tract with a homeowners' association that already
regulates ham
> radio operators. He says that restrictive H OA agreements
exacerbate the
> problem. "By prohibiting high antenna towers, [the HOA rules]
force me to
> place my antennas lower and closer to my neighbors, and force me
to use
> higher power to make up for the difference in performance." He
said that
> his
> antenna, which is located in his attic, creates far more
radiation on the
> ground than if it were up on a 50-foot tower-the same type of
tower Collins
> applied for in 1997 but was denied a permit for. Hams are
required by the
> FCC to keep track of the amount of radiation from their antennas
but
> Collins'
> station is far below the allowable
> limits, he says. "In the next earthquake,
> all of my neighbors will be running to my house to send messages
out to
> their loved ones in other places. I hope they remember this."
>
> Dick Henley, a member of the Electronic Industries Association
who lives in
> Ann Arbor, Michigan, claims that most of the interference to
appliances,
> televisions, and phones can't be blamed on hams going about their
normal
> activity. "The vast majority of these appliances is
insufficiently shielded
> against external fields. The slightest interference- even from a
garage
> door
> opener or a cell phone-can disrupt it. In most cases, it's not
the ham's
> fault." He said that on the contrary, hams are usually the ones
who must
> suffer with interference from these electronic devices. "Most of
the stuff
> coming out of China spews interference to radios, but the h ams
have just
> learned to live with it. Homeowners are totally oblivious to
this," he
> said.
>
> Xiang Qang, the principal investigator at Stanford who co-
published the
> original paper, explained that the radio waves, over the long term,
> polarize
> cells in the brain tissue and bias a child toward rough or anti-
social
> behavior. "We saw these children who couldn't sit still, couldn't
listen to
> a book being read to them, and who had severe reading delays and
> disabilities. We started to see that each time a television was
turned on
> near them, they would actually exhibit worse behavior. So we
followed that
> path: why the television? Why the television? Then we discovered
that is
> wasn't the television, but the radiation from it. So we tested
many other
> types of transmitters and found that the worst ones were ham
transmitters
> from Icom and Yaesu, with the Kenwoods being marginally better."
>
> Qang explains that it is the brain's frontal lobe which is most
vulnerable
> to external radiation due to its
> location at the front of the cranium just
> behind the forehead, its proximity to the sphenoid wing- the bone
at the
> temple that houses the pituitary gland- and it's large size. "The
frontal
> lobe absorbs a lot of radiation and since it governs our
behavior, this is
> why we think that attention deficit and hyperactivity are the
symptoms of
> prolonged absorption of high-frequency waves in that region," she
said.
>
> "Nonsense," says Dr. V. Subrahaminayalakshminirayana, head of
neurology at
> Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco. "There is absolutely no
conclusive
> evidence in the literature to support an ambitious and
imaginative theory
> that ionizing radiation can deleteriously and negatively affect
behavior in
> children whether the exposure is at a relatively constant low-
level or
> periodic." He believes that attention deficit hyperactivity is more
> likely a
> function of exhaustive over-stimulation of the brain by video
> games,
> texting, and television viewing. "Ask the Asian parents of your
child's
> playmate why they never seem to have this problem," he laughed.
>
> In fact, the Stanford study found that Hispanic children were
fourteen
> times
> as likely to suffer the effects of radio waves than were Asian
children.
> Hydra Brock-Parker, dean of sociology at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
and a
> consultant named in the Stanford study, says that Hispanics live in
> depressed parts of a city where houses and apartments are packed
closer
> together and the possibility of exposure is much greater. "Where
are all of
> those children going to go to escape radiation from transmitters?
> There's no
> backyard to play in and besides, you wouldn't want your children
playing
> outside in those neighborhoods. If you've got, you know, a ham
> serial-killer
> type next door flooding your apartment with high-intensity radio
waves, you
> have no choice but to sit
> there and get sick," she said.
>
> Representatives20from Marin, Ventura, and Los Angeles counties
were present
> at the press conference and were said to be keenly interested in
the
> implementation of the new law. A similar measure was introduced
into the
> L.A. County Board's docket on Monday and may be considered at the
next
> session in May.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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> **Sam Adams said, "'When the people fear the government they have
> tyranny, when the government fears the people they have freedom***
>
>
>
> **LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER!**
>
>
>
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