Subject:  (Curry) (Sugalski) (Fwd) Help!, Microwave towers (fwd)
Date:     Sat, 6 Feb 1999 175327 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
rbeavers@llion.org................
...It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness... 
.................PEOPLE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PROFITS...............

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Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 14:40:36 -0700
From: "Bill P. Curry" 
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: Re: (Sugalski) (Fwd) Help!, Microwave towers (fwd)

Roy and Marilyn,
 	I apologize for not having responded to Marilyn's inquiry before
this.  I have been away for more than two weeks.
	If you will supply the following information, I will try to give you an
answer.  If the horizontal distance from the tower to the house (in addition
to the tower height), the height of the house, the power output per channel
into the antenna, the number of channels usually active at a given time, the
type of antenna (whether whip or panel antennas), how many antennas (if panel
antennas), etc. are known, we can estimate the radiation density incident on
the people in the house.  After so doing, one then can use the complations of
Neil Cherry and others to see wether ill effects are likely, assuming long
duration exposure at the computed radiation density.  For example, if the
radiation level is as much as 1-10 microwatts per square centimeter, I would
be very concerned about the likelihood of brain cancer upon exposure of 10
years duration, and Neil Cherry has said that 0.06 microwatt per square
centimeter and above is suspect for a variety of illnesses.  If you don't have
the power data, antenna descriptions, etc., try to determine the antenna user
(service provider, such as SPRINT, Cellular One, etc.) and precise address of
the tower.  We can probably get the additional needed information from a
national database and make the estimate from this information.
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