iBurst base station woes

[kromdraai]

Uninformed

What bugs me most is the fact that people who doesn’t know anything about RF comment about how dangerous it is to your health.

What they don’t know about the technology is even worse, come to think about it. Less base stations cause the handheld to transmit higher power, right next to your ear!!

Yes, there are a visual impact, but that can be remedied with rock clad, brick and just about and form of containers for equipment, and the mast these days can be made into tree you can think of almost.

For once I wish that people, who don’t know anything about what they’re talking about, should just keep quiet. We’re moving into the digital future, trying to build SME’s that can run from home and add to the economy of our country, but no, lets make a noise about something we know nothing about rather.

 

[Tns]

well if your cellphone is glued to your head 24/7 that might cause problems.


mmm, that might explain the extra set off hands i have grown lately

 

[ambo]

I am still of the opinion that using a cellphone to speak to people and get on the internet still has a negligible effect on people's health when compared to say - the pollution produced by driving your car to work every day...

But thats just me.

 

[bdt]

Yes. Wow. Most people who like to exonerate cell phone radiation - whether from handsets or base stations - consider the so-called SAR (Specific Absorption Rate) of Radio Frequency radiation whic is a measure of the rate at which the radiation heats up tissue of a specific density. The idea is that tissues (bone, brain, muscle) could be damaged by localised heating.

Quite ..now see how physics works FOR you with this issue: the inverse square law, bottom line being that as you move away from the radiation source the radiated power falls off with the square of the distance (i.e. x^2). There's a great graphic on that page but [-]I don't know how to embed 'em here[/-] embedded images seem not to be enabled here, so it's viewable here instead.

So, dumbasses of this ilk:

Jill Ferri, one of the community members who initiated a petition against the base station, said she and other residents were only looking out for the community’s wellbeing, especially that of children. “Parents don’t want their kids to spend all day next to the thing,” she said.

are no better than the witch hunters of old: they don't know the physics involved (ok, not a surprise but why not ASK instead of just rabble-rousing?! For that matter, why don't the people trying to get a base up SHOW them this stuff?!) and go off half-cocked while effectively removing real value from the area instead. Oh, and I wonder how many of these *spit* 'concerned' parents limit their precious little horrors from using a handset - where the radiating element is RIGHT against your head? THAT could potentially make a difference but no, all the sheeple just bleat together about how ba-a-a-d it is. *sigh*

 

[telkomsuig]

luckily i like living on the edge making a call right now while using my wireless card to access the internet and my notebook is on my lap....

 

[Tns]

my notebook is on my lap....

you do realize what your irradiating......

 

[telkomsuig]

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[Turiko]

The problem I have with the experts claiming that cellphone radiation is damaging, it that every article I've seen on the subject had techical inaccuracies which made me doubt the quality of the rest of the study.

I have the same problem too... Articles written by people who don't even know how the technology really works