On 7/9/13 7:01 AM, Burt I. Weiner wrote:
John,
Unfortunately, there's a lot of money in fear. Being in broadcast
engineering I learned as long time ago to never use the words,
"radiation" or "radiate" a signal when referring to a station's signal.
Instead, I refer to it as, "Launch" or "Launched" a signal. When asked
about a radio station's radiation I remind them about the expression,
"radiate a smile". It simply means, " to send out". If you really want
to frighten people, use the expression, "To radiate SPAM!"
Indeed..
It's so pervasive that when you go out to get approval for human
experimentation, there's a different process if any radiation is
involved: ionizing OR non-ionizing (e.g. RF/microwaves). I asked why,
because I was looking at radiating a milliwatt at a few GHz.
It's because of the informed consent aspect. You need to have a simple
explanation of what you're doing and that will inevitably have that
"word" in it, along with a reference to the IEEE/ANSI standard.
(although I've been careful to use the word "exposure" and "field",
rather than "radiation")
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