Subject: (Loew) (Tegenfeldt) Don't fight towers, fight EMF/EMR! (fwd)
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 160242 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 16:42:25 -0500
From: Brenda Loew
To: "Roy L. Beavers"
Subject: Re: (Tegenfeldt) Don't fight towers, fight EMF/EMR! (fwd)
Claus: Your arguments, explanations and comments sound much like those
presented to the City of Newton and residents in the community by the
engineers/consultants hired by ATS. So I have heard much of what you have
said before. And I don't buy it.
The industry you are a part of has not been monitored closely enough by
consumer groups or other groups the way the auto, tobacco, pesticide, and
mining industries have, for example.. Not enough studies have been done.
Electromagnetic radiation is a bona fide industrial poison, a toxin, a
pollutant -- just like coal dust. Just because radiation is invisible
doesn't mean it doesn't cause headaches, cancers, learning disabilities,
miscarriages, etc.
Frankly, I am offended that you suggest the solution to my concerns and
headaches is to "just move away." Are you suggesting I sell my house so
someone else can get headaches or cancer or have miscarriages instead of me?
The bottom line is I own my own home and work five minutes from it.I have
no intention of moving. Neither did the Woburn families move and their
children died of leukemia from poisoned water.
It is a matter of public record that the equipment on the towers is obsolete
and the term that was used to describe them was that they "leak". I am not
making this up.
I and many others believe that movie critic Gene Siskel died of a brain
tumor caused by his cell phone antenna being held close to the same place by
his head. The industry may be covering up now but it's gonna have to 'fess
up eventually.
-- BRENDA
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>Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 12:59:34 +0100
>From: Clas Tegenfeldt
>To: eidos@eidos.org
>Cc: rbeavers@llion.org
>Subject: [iso-8859-1] DonĄt fight towers, fight EMF/EMR!
>
>For my humble thoughts about fighting high metallic structures as compared
>to electromagnetic fields, see below. /Clas
>
>>Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 19:19:56 -0500
>>From: Brenda Loew
>>To: "Roy L. Beavers"
>>Subject: Re: (Rowe) Bermuda cell towers.....
>...
>>The current tower on the site was built in the 1950's and is now obsolete.
>>It has 7 antennas on it. ATS admits publicly that the equipment currently up
>>there leaks excessive amounts of radiation. The new tower would have 43
>>whips and antennas on it for AM, FM, HDV, TV and cell phone transmissions.
>>Industry specialists claim the new tower will be safer in terms of lowered
>>amounts of radiation emitted. But what will happen when inevitably that
>>tower becomes obsolete? It will leak excessive amounts of radiation from 43
>>whips and antennas!!!
>
>Hi Brenda!
>
>I would like to tell you my view of it, from an engineer who works with
>biological effects from electromagnetic fields. First the basic technology
>things, broadcasts are, as implied by the word, something you as provider
>want to spread around, there should be no white spots on the map. So, you
>can either live near or far, but never escape fully. You live beside
>an existing tower; that is the natural place to place the next one since
>one wants to keep reception of the broadcast over the area intact.
>Antennas emit their electromagnetic radiation in certain directions, more in
>some and less in others, that is what engineers call antenna directivity or
>radiation lobe or radiation pattern. Even for a whip antenna, which often is
>called omnidirectional and said to cast of radiation equally in all direction,
>the radiation is in fact not equally strong at various heights! In summary,
>to generalize, the antennas that is intended to get into that tower are
>casting of most of the radiation towards the horizon, not down.
>Think like it was a light tower, at the base of the light tower it is quite
>dark since the lamp is casting of its energy horisontally...
>
>The only antennas that may intentionally be tilted downwards are cellular
>phone antennas to give coverage in the near area. However, those you will
>have in the vicinity with or without that tower. As long as people want to
>and are able to use their cellphone, you will have cellular base station
>antennas in the vicinity.
>
>For FM, HDTV, TV broadcasts you are better of /either/ moderately close
>(under main radiation lobes) or at least 10 km away.
>
>Also remember that antennas do not "leak" electromagnetic radiation, the
>are meant to radiate! They are constructed to efficiently cast off
>high frequency electromagnetic fields into air in some direction.
>
>
>>Eleven months after I moved here in 1993, I went on prescription medication
>>for throbbing headaches that I had never had before. These headaches still
>>occur almost daily. They tire me out, have changed my personality and have
>>diminished my quality of life...
>
>If you feel it, if it affects you and diminishes your quality of life, I
>would sincerely recommend you to move! With respect to the tower, it may
>in fact become better if they erect as TALL a tower as is at all possible
>and put the antennas as high as possible! That will perhaps improve the
>situation in the neighbourhood, but for you personally that may not be
>enough. Try to live a week or more at another location, compare how you feel,
>and make your decision. That decision is a separate decision from fighting
>the tower. The frustration and anger one may collect over time when
>being exposed and not feeling well can be used both constructively as well
>as destructively, use it wisely.
>
>It is important to remember that you really are NOT fighting the tower per
>see, you are fighting the radiofrequency field strength at your homes!
>Please remember that. A big and ugly tower may improve as well as impair
>the current situation, donĄt fight the metallic structure but fight antenna
>placements, radiated power, radiation beam directivity and resulting
>field strength in the vicinity! Demand /measurements/ AND calculations, for
>the situations
>1 - without the tower or transmitters at all, that is the background level
>2 - with current transmitter setup, the old thing
>3 - with planned transmitter setup, the companies dream
>4 - with a higher tower and minimized radiated power, a minimum functionality
>
>If permission for a new tower is not given, what is the alternative for
>broadcast and cellular providers? Do they mount the antennas in the
>existing tower instead? Or will they spread them around on many small
>towers all over the place instead? What happens if one successfully
>fight a tower and the alternative is placement of antennas on a nearby
>high rise building instead? Always study the alternative solutions from the
>opposite view as well as from your own perspective. Get to know your
>opponents and their operating conditions. The broadcasters WILL
>get their coverage, one way or the other, what will that mean for you?
>
>To sum up, two separate battles:
>1 - fight electromagnetic radiation, not the visual tower. DonĄt be afraid
> of change, but make sure the change is for lower EMFs.
>2 - search a place for you yourself to live where you have no adverse
> symptoms. In most cases that is faster, easier and means less drain on
> worldly as well as spiritual resources than to expect the current bad
> situation to be fixed.
>Of course, you can do both! Move, feel better and help others fight...
>
>For more information take a look at www.feb.se where you will find
>lots of information, among other things extracts from EMF-L,
>as well as all the links you will need to get out onto the
>EMF web around the globe.
>
>Good luck,
>
>Clas Tegenfeldt ,,,
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