[Antennas] RF exposure regulations

2002年3月21日 15:36:18 -0600

Have watched this thread with great interest...I am beginning to wonder
if the whole this may just be a conspiracy by those who feel that
all technology is bad for us and we should go back the where we were
over 100 years ago.
At 04:18 PM 03/21/2002 EST, [email protected] wrote:
>In a message dated 3/21/02 4:21:21 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
>[email protected] writes:
>><< > I hate to disagree with you.... BUT... It had been proven in the
> > Telephone company.. that the Western Electric installers who were always
> > around "low" current DC magnetic fields ended up with a MUCH greater
> > incidence of cancer than the general population.
>>> > How do we know that the plastic used on the wires, the stuff the
> employees were `stripping bits of off' to wire wrap onto little pins
> are not the cause these cancers? >>
>>--The answer to the 2nd quote MIGHT be in the answer to the first. Is the
>first quote talking about telephone cental offices, as discussed in the
>book "Fields of Death" ( i think it was) ? IF so, i don't think the claimed
>cancer rates were just for installers, it was for switch technicians just
>being around the fields. A friend and i discussed this after we heard about
>it. He was working on a floor just under a huge inverter. I walk by this 
>stuff often - massive AC switch gear, high current DC rectifiers, etc. It
>makes me feel creepy walking around where i know the high fields are,
>but that's a purely subjective feeling. I have been thinking of buying one
>of those mag field strength instruments, but i don't know how that info 
>would help me. Anecdotally, there is NO talk or awareness among
>telco employees of any higher cancer rates, and my own feeling is that
>the books discussion of this does not have enuff studies to establish
>that it's a fact. 
>The plastic wire we use has a plasticizer in it to make it flexible. This
>stuff actually sometimes makes the wire feel a little greasy. Also it
>seems to evaporate??? out, because after about 20 years the wire turns
>brittle and the insulation can even crack off. That volatile plasiticizer is
>another thing i am sorta concerned about, but one can't walk around
>and handle the challenges of moment by moment life with possible
>warning lights continuously on, in the mind.
>Regards, Hue Miller
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