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G8MNY > TECH 21.05.07 07:23l 69 Lines 3066 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Mobile Mast Madness
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By G8MNY (May 07)
Soem time ago I watched another TV phone in programme, where RF death
beam hysteria & NIMBY (not in my back yard) ruled OK. This was triggered
by another report that cancer might be cause be the radiation from the
47,000 UK masts.
1/ The idea that radiation from phone mast kill people is absurd, quite
the opposite is true.
2/ Mobile phones actually save lives. 100s per day as emergency calls
for accidents, heart attacks, robberies, & assaults etc. are made
right from the incident site, with no added delay accessing a land
line phone. So the services are more likely to get there in the
crucial life critical golden hour time.
3/ The idea that the radiation Rx from masts is high (compared to the
phones) is wrong. The fact that the RF field from masts is millions
of time weaker at ground level than from a phone by your ear is
never mentioned!
4/ The idea you can put the masts somewhere else is also untrue. You
need the masts in the populated area because the range is so low.
Masts further away will cause bigger cells & hence less peak
traffic capacity. Also your handset will have to Tx much higher
power (shorter Tx time/battery life etc.) if the cells are large.
Other than high population areas, masts are generally sited in
valleys that would be otherwise be RF holes, & on hilltops, where
phones can then run low power & stop multi cell hilltop QRM.
5/ From 3 & 4 it is NOT a good idea to have masts further away from
schools, in fact the school could well do with the mast site money
to pay for better education. Lowest radiation is often close up to
a masts under the beam!
6/ The long safety record of other UHF RF radiation, like QRO TV Tx
(Mega Watts), or the extreme QRO of air traffic microwave radar
(Giga Watts) is never considered. Or for that matter the RF
leakage of microwave ovens in most kitchens.
7/ The only real loss of life due to mobile phones, is due to the
stupid drivers holding a mobile up to their ear & not
concentrating on their driving. This is now illegal in most
countries, but these driving laws have had little effect!
8/ About 30% of the population will get cancer, statistically cancer
clusters will occur. eg. a street may have no cancers in it &
another have 100%, this is normal random distribution & as masts
are everywhere people are, so they get blamed. If it were true
there would be 47,000 cancer hot spots in the UK! (It used to be
witches that were burned at the stake, now it is masts,)
Note 2/ also shows the opposite view, "that speed humps save lives".
London Ambulance Service has be quoted before now to say that 700
lives are lost per year on average, directly due to London's speed
bumps & traffic calming measures, by increasing time critical
emergency journey times. The same is true for Fire engines that
burst their water tanks etc.
Why Don't U send an interesting bul?
73 de John G8MNY @ GB7CIP
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