[BC] uplink ERP - RF hazard?

[nakayle at gmail.com]

  Well as one of those "in their 60s" engineers, who worked years at
50KW-AM, 100KW-FM and 316-KW TV stations when the only concern about RF was
don't touch a hot RF conductor anymore then you'd touch a hot AC or DC
conductor- but no one worried about being near towers or transmitters.  Nor
did we worry about lead solder, asbestos insulation or PCB oil then either.
I routinely wiped off the oily film that collected on the transformers and
oil caps and thought nothing of it. I even gave hams oil out of an old
transformer for their Heath "Cantenna" dummy loads.  It wasn't until 1980s I
started hearing how dangerous all this stuff was suppose to be.  So by all
rights I should be dead now but I'm still very much alive and kicking!

Oh- and as for having kids- it took a vasectomy (not RF) to turn off the
baby machine. ;-)

 - Nat Kayle


On Jan 13, 2008 7:49 AM, Rich Wood <richwood at pobox.com> wrote:

> ------ At 10:51 PM 1/12/2008, Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote: -------
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> >It's a good thing I dont ever plan on having kids...
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> >I've lived within just several hundred feet of...
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> >a 250 Watt Daytimer on 1520
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> With all these RF hazards around I've wondered how the last high
> powered transmitter engineers, most in their 60s, ever survived. The
> ones I know are still alive and kicking. They spent 8 hours a day, at
> least, bathed in RF. Two stations I've worked for were directional
> with an estimated 150Kw ERP.
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