Subject:  (Philips) Re Challenge to FCC over Georgetown Tower (fwd)
Date:     Wed, 12 Aug 1998 122129 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 17:58:09
From: Alasdair Philips 
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Cc: marty@sccoast.net
Subject: Re: Challenge to FCC over Georgetown Tower (fwd)

Marty
While I greatly appreciate your sentiment, even if they do stop nasty
vible eyesores you are then likely to be even more irradiated. All it
adresses is the aesthetic issue. They need the base stations and they find
other ways!

In the UK we are now getting 'architecturally correct' panel antennas
mounted on walls in historic and heritage areas. These are not at all 
obvious to the eye unless you really know what to look for. However they
are usually at first floor level - about 10 feet only above the heads of
people walking along the street.  These are now becoming pouplar in city
areas and mean that people are MORE exposed to microwave radiation than
they would have been from the ugly high towers that might have been used in
the past. They also need FAR more of them as each one can only serve one or
two streets! The alternative to these are the "lampost" antennas we heard
all about last year. All these aesthetically more acceptable 'solutions'
end up irradiating the population even more. Sorry to sound so negative,
but Roy is right, we need to fight the NEED for any masts/antennas not just
specific instances. Encourage everyone you know not to own and use a
cell-phone. It is the only way. It is no good using such a device and then
being NIMBYish about the masts. You have to have to masts/antennas to
support the cell-phone service. Anyone who has a cell-phone and then
complains about masts has their head in the sand.

People ARE getting more self-conscious about using them. Whereas not long
ago, on a train, people would be proud to use one in full view, often now
in the UK if one rings everyone looks round to see who "has farted" (so to
speak) and the guilty party usually slinks down to the end of the carriage
away from everyone else to accept the call! We need to encourage people to
feel bad about owning and using their cell-phones. I carry a small
microwave alarm I have built and if anyone uses a phone within about 10
feet of me it emits a shrill alarm. When I explain what it is to all seated
around me I usually get more support than abuse for my stance. (p.s.: no
they are not commercially available yet, sorry!)

Alasdair
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Alasdair Philips    (aphilips@gn.apc.org)
Director, UK Powerwatch,
EMC Engineer and EMF-bioeffects researcher
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At 09:24 12/08/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>.....Marty's letter below is full of good information.....However,
>I regret to say that (in my opinion) he should be taking the
>bureaucracy to court rather than writing nice long informative
>letters ... which will be read by people already "predisposed" to
>"take care" of their special interest friends and not the Public.....
>.....guru......Thanks Marty!!!......
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>Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:22:28 -0400
>From: Marty Tennant 
>To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
>Subject: Challenge to FCC over Georgetown Tower
>
>Roy,
>
>This is a long letter to the Advisory Council for Historic
>Preservation that we will be sending soon.  I wanted you to see how
>the FCC, SCANA and the SC State Historic Preservation Office have
....snipped...... see original email for details.......
 
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Alasdair Philips    (aphilips@gn.apc.org)
Director, UK Powerwatch,
EMC Engineer and EMF-bioeffects researcher
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