In article ,
engsol wrote:

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 19:37:00 GMT, Bruce in Alaska wrote:

In article ,
engsol wrote:

.mainly because of a microwave site near neighborhoods.

Here again if you do the math, and figure the antenna bandwidths,
and RF Paths to and from the site, you will know that there is
insignificant exposer to RF from a microwave communications site,
anywhere on the ground, or in the nearfield of the antennas.


Bruce in alaska

Bruce, you're right as rain. Even considering the near field nulls
and nodes the radiation reaching the ground (at any given range)
from a dish on a tower is less than the radiation from the sun at that
frequency. The reason I brought up the neighborhood microwave site
is because I had to appear before the Portland City Council to defend
our (my company's) desire to establish one. I was the Project Manager
for the MW network, and had to "prove" there was no hazard.
Actually it was a bad post on my part, as .I didn't explain my position
very well.
Norm B


Yep, reminds me of when RCA Americom wanted to build an EarthStation
for the Aurora 1 Comms Sat on Vashon Island, Washington, so they could
bring the Alaska Longlines Traffic into the ESS4 Switch in Seattle.
The neighbors went TOTALLY nuts and delayed the project for a couple of
years in the KIng County Planning Commission. Some fool got this group
together and strung it out forever. RCA even went so far as getting
Dr. Renolds from the UW Applied Physics Lab to testify on their behalf,
and that didn't satisfy them. Total foolishness, to the extreme.
They finally built the EarthStation, but had to paint the 10Meter Dish
Brown/Green so it would "Blend into the neighborhood", and that was the
only consession that they were granted in the end.


Bruce in alaska who knows the foolishness of the uneducated......
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