[Antennas] RF exposure regulations

2002年3月19日 06:21:35 -0500

I've also heard that the original 'scientific' research was judged
flawed by a peer committee [several years after the study was released].
The original investigator was barred from grant funds for a short period
of time [my recollection is that it was for 3 years]. I recall that the
original investigator was from a university in the NW USA.
However, by the time this became known the regulations had been written,
promulgated and issued. 
I retired from engineering 2 years ago and can't recall the source or
journal where this was posted. If anyone has more info it would be
useful to post it.
The regulations are the regulations. Until such time as they are revoked
we have to comply. If someone chooses to challenge them they are free to
do so.
73, Deacon Dave, W1MCE
Chief Engineer, S-118 MK21, retired
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Joe Falcone wrote:
>> When the RF exposure regulations first came out I dug into the FCC reports and the reports that were behind the adoption of the regulations. What they (the FCC and/or
> Government) did was to see what RF exposure would have on monkeys. They could not get any reaction to any type of normal raditation that we might be exposed to,
> so they exposed this one poor monkey to a massive, and I mean massive, amount of RF. Well, the monkey did react - but it was realatively mild, but he did adversely
> react. Based on that, the FCC concluded that RF exposure could possibly harm humans and they adopted the regulations and simply pulled the requirements out of think
> air. If anyone is really interested, you have to read the regulation adoption documents and then backtrack into the monkey experiment. It doesn't take long, or at least it
> did not when they first came out with them.
>> Based on my study of the Government testing documents, I concluded (and I am not a scientist), that I would have no problem exposing myself and my family to the RF
> that we use in ham radio. It was my understanding from reading the Government documents that, except for this one poor monkey, there was no evidence that RF
> exposure ever harmed anyone, man or beast. If you are still interested, I suggest you read the stuff yourself and make your own conclusions. Joe Falcone,N8TI.
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