[ILUG] OT: internet access/MMDS

[John McCormac]

Bernard Tyers wrote:
>
> 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..

Lower frequencies can be far more damaging as they can upset the lymph
glands and screw with the blood cell count. However 1KW at close range
is not something that I would like to try.

Conincidentally, the Darwin Award for 1998 went to a nightwatchman at a
Canadian Telco's microwave installation. He used to sit in front of the
dishes to get warmed up. Nobody told him that they had increased the
power ten times to cope with the seasonal traffic. He went up with his
deckchair and cans of beer, to get warm on Christmas eve. When the
morning shift got in arrived they thought from the smell that he had
prepared a suprise roast to celebrate Christmas. :-)

Regards...jmcc
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