[ILUG] OT: internet access/MMDS

[Bernard Tyers]

On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Colm Buckley wrote:

> We do have a uw link in operation (or at least, we did up to quite
> recently) as a link to our "outpost" in St James' Hospital (IIRC,
> transmitting from the tower in DIT Kevin Street), but it's a normal
> ethernet uw link, not nearly intense enough to fry a pigeon.  I strongly
> doubt that a transmitter that intense would be sanctioned by the
> relevant authorities.
> 
> Perhaps if you stood in front of it for a couple of hours, you'd have
> problems.  Isn't there a sign up on Three Rock, indicating how long it's
> safe to stand in front of the dishes up there for?


well, 
last march  (and j0n will back me up on this) the wit amateur radio group
went on a competition, using 3.5MHz (mainly) tx'ing average power of 1KW.
the way the antenna was diected, we were in the direct path of the max
tx'ed power. I can say for the whoille weekend I had a splitting headache,
and for about a week after.

and that was only long wave radiation, if we were using 900Mhz? heavens..


 rgrds, ...bernard..

Bernard Tyers. B.Tech.Elec. Mail: btyers at snet.wit.ie, Web: snet.wit.ie/bbt

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