Back in the old days -- say mid-50's or earlier, broadcast transmitters were required to be monitored full-time by a qualified engineer. High-power AM transmitters bombarded these guys with all kinds of stuff.
Many of these old-timers reported effects on the brain, but I can't remember the details. But, they did survive to tell the tales! (For 25 years or so, I worked side-by-side with a former transmitter engineer.) Different frequency, different power, probably different effects on the human body. We still have public concerns that transmitter radiation at the periphery of the site is too much. Paul Brodeur's book, "Currents of Death," (based on faulty research) popularized the notion of cancer from any transmitter as well as power transmission lines and video display terminals. Rich > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Chris Wells > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 6:26 PM > To: Oscar Overton > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: RF What-if (was: RE: Another Cancer Scare?) > > > Oscar - I spend a lot of time debugging systems and > separating coincidence > from cause so I appreciate your skeptic stance. > I would agree that it was not a controlled experiment but it was my > experience that I wanted to share. > My exposure was over a good part of a month and my flu like symptoms > happened at the exposure time and stopped ~ 4hrs+ later after > leaving the > area. > I would estimate ~ 15 exposures events over that month and > then many months > before and after without any problems. > As a result of my experience I am being cautious, limiting > unnecessary > exposure and since I work with power being observant of other > situations. > > Chris Wells > > > > From: "Oscar Overton" <[email protected]> > Chris, > > Until you can do this repeatedly and the results are the > same, you have only demonstrated a coincidence. > > Oscar Overton > Product Safety > - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
