DeserTBoB wrote:
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 21:20:32 -0800, "Richard Crowley"
wrote:


It's at the point where OSHA has
now made guidelines for RF exposure, in the absence of any actual physical
data. snip

Now THAT I agree with, it's been long overdue, and the assertion that
there's "no physical data" is corporate hogwash. Having worked
microwave for years, and knowing other fellow microwave techs who
wound up with cataracts by age 40, as well as leukemia and various
cancers, I know for a fact that non-ionizing radiation IS dangerous,
no doubt about it.

Yes, but you're also talking first of all about microwaves, and secondly about
very high levels. Up at that range, tissue heating effects _are_ very well
documented.

I used to know someone who claimed he could hear microwaves... when the radar
system (probably about 1 MW ERP because of the tight beam) was turned on, he
could hear something. Turned out to be tissue heating effects causing his
skull to expand. That's very bad for you.

But the OSHA guidelines also apply to AM broadcast systems too. They are
really quite arbitrary and they don't seem to match very well with anything.
--scott


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