He first became involved in the EMR Bioeffects controversy seven years ago, when GTE Mobilnet acquired a lease to place a Cellular Tower about a thousand feet from his home. (See map at right.)

In addition to his background in computers and electronics, Mr. Bedard used to hybridize Orchids, and has some rudimentary familiarity with biology from growing up with a Father who worked in the US Forest Service as a research Entomologist. The USFS exposed him both to science, and to bureaucracy.

My Editorial Policy

Okay, I'll admit it; I believe there is something to this. When the dust settles, what will it be? I can't tell you. But in the mean time, I don't like the mis-information campaign, and the strong-arm tactics being used by the Telecommunications Industry to force their world (and economic) view on the rest of us. We no longer have a choice, as these companies come into our communities, backed by the Federal Government, with what are sure to be found as unconstitutional laws, and force us to accept their transmission apparatus.

If the Telecommunications Act of 1996 ends up being dismantled, who is going to go tear down these ill-begotten gains? Of course, the answer to that rhetorical question is: Nobody.

Robert Bedard
Wave-Guide WebMaster
e-mailto: webmaster@wave-guide.org
November, 1999

The map above shows the predicted coverage for the tower that has been my neighbor for the last seven years. The circle in the center with the T is the cellular tower, and the circle with the H is my home, about a thousand feet away.

The different colors represent different levels of signal degradation; the yellow area is for all practical purposes "saturated." Note that my house is almost dead-on in the center of one of the three main antenna lobes.

Back in 1992 there was no Telecommunications Act yet, but the odds were still stacked against us. There was very little research on the frequencies used for cellular telphones, and the "standard" (ANSI-IEEE C95.1-1991) was for occupational exposure, and was only an advisory, not mandatory standard. The only mandatory standard in effect was for new microwave ovens.

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